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Mach Discussion => Mach Screens => Flash Screens => Topic started by: poppabear on June 16, 2008, 02:16:46 PM
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Here is a Mach3 Turn screen, it recreates "Steve Blackmores" (mach turn's OEM turn screen).
I have attached the Source File for the .swf as a Zip file.
There are some minor glitches, that I suspect I have been staring at it to long now, to see the bug.
i.e. Some of the LEDs, like: Coolent, Dwell, and a few others, will turn on with the button, but wont toggle off, unless you navigate off that page and return to it....... A little agrevating, but I can't find what I am missing.
"F1" brings out the "MPG/Shuttle" page, you hitting the F1 again will not flip you back, you have to push the button in the lower right corner that brings you back to the Run page.
But everything else is running/working.
Please, I ask if you see the errors please fix them in the source, and repost it with your fix, what you did, where it was etc.
Scott
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Scott
I can help with the Coolant (not Coolent incidentally), Dwell etc. The LEDs are defined with Frame Names Dead, Red, Yellow, Green but the watch code calls up
gotoAndStop ("off")
Changing these to:
gotoAndStop ("dead")
works fine.
As you say, one of those things you can stare at for ever and miss.
John Prentice
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John,
Thank you Sir!!!! You are a Peach!! I knew I just couldnt see it. I am reposting the new fixed .swf and source file.
I changed all the states of ALL Leds to "dead" that way every thing is the same........
also, I fixed the Coolant labels....
Thanks again for eyeballin it John, Poke at this one, and see if there are more bugs.......
scott
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Very nice screen set, but darn now I have to upgrade my shop computer to run flash.
Seriously, very nice work, looks great to me. I will play with is some and see what I can turn up. Thanks also for including the source file.
John Guenther
'ye Olde Pen Maker'
Sterling, Virginia
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Ok,
I think I may have got them all (the bugs that is).
NOTE: to "Tab out" the MPG/Jog window, you have to hit the "F1" key, that is because in flash, using the tab key will cycle through your displayed DRO's..........
Bugs Fixed:
1). All the LEDs Work, Please test them all on your set up, in case I missed one.........
2). Fixed the Units/rev-min smart label, (this was a work around since Brian will have to add support for this Smart Label and a few others as he can).
3). Global Action Script Frame, I changed this to one Giant Frame that covers the entire screen sets, this is code that hits many of the same things
over and over again on the pages. It will allow quick changes to the scripts for all pages that they effect.
current .swf, and updated source attached.
Scott
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Why is there a small button in the upper left corner of most of the screens for the Daignostics page?
Not a problem, just a quetion.
Thanks
John Guenther
'Ye Olde Pen Maker'
Sterling, Virginia
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I recreated "Steve Blackmores" screens exactly, as much as able, since everone was used to them, no other reason.
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Scott,
Ok, I had not noticed that before, but then I don' t normally use those screens since they will not work on my shop computer without being downsized to 640x480. I have a screen set that I made for my mini lathe that does what I need it to so I rarely use the default screen sets.
I will be upgrading the shop computer to allow the flash screens to work on it.
Thanks
John Guenther
'Ye Olde Pan Maker'
Sterling, Virginia
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Hi
I can't load Flash screens on my computer What dose a guy do to get it working I am a FLASH Guy I downloaded the new fla but it in my Plugins folder what alse do I need to do Thank you klmark
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Ha,
Thanks to Jason "Grand Master Flash" Zealous, he gave me the code to do the MPG/jog window toggle correctly, it now works as it should, with the F1 Key, which when pressed brings out the MPG/jog page, when pressed again, it takes you back to the screen you where last on.
You will need to have the latest Flash plug in installed to run this screen. Here is the link, download the Zip file attachement from that post, for the Flashdll.zip
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,7042.0.html
Also, you have to have the above Flash Plugin for the Smart Labels to work!!!!
there have been reports of Flash crashing peoples computers there are some steps you HAVE to do.
1). You have to download and install Flash ActiveX player 9
LINK: http://www.artsoftcontrols.com/forum/index.php?topic=3905.0
go down to post #4 by Jason and download the install zip file.
2). You need to Enable the Flash Plug in once you put the .dll in the plugins folder, once enabled, close and reopen mach.
3). Drag and Drop the new .swf file into the main Mach 3 directory, open up mach, if already open that is ok, go to view, load screens, on file type pick ".swf" scroll until you see the .swf you want hit ok.
4). Once the Flash screen loads, YOU HAVE TO CLOSE MACH, AND RE OPEN MACH, so it gets written to the .XML.
It should run fine after that.
If you Computer is Crashing with Flash here is some other things that Jason said, could be the cause:
-Not using the latest Flash Plug’ in
-Not installing the Flash Active X controller
-Not running Mach version 3.*********
-Running Mach in demo Mode
-Antivirus system not allowing Flash to run (you could be blocking any Adobe product from running on your system)
if none of that works try things like turning off Hardware acceleration on your Vidio card to see if it makes a difference.
Past these things, it is an Art or Brian Question........
Attached are the source for lathe and the .swf (version 5), I also put a Flash Version 8 source file, for those running Flash 8.
Scott
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Hi Scott,
Just out of curiosity, is there a Sothing .sqf of the lathe flash OEM screen set available?
That would be really nice for those people that might want to play but don't want to invest in Adobe Flash CS3.
Thanks, not a complaint just a question.
John Guenther
'Ye Olde Pen Maker'
Sterling, Virginia
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John,
I dont own a copy of SoThink, BUT, I know Jason does, and there were some others that had posted that they had both as well.
Check with "Bodini" if memory serves he posted alot of stuff too.
Obviously, you would need someone who has both, so you can copy/paste over the code, and the SoThink equivelent Frame layout.
scott
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Hi Scott,
I now have both, I guess I will take a stab at creating the Sothink version.
Thanks.
John Guenther
'Ye Olde Pen Maker'
Sterling, Virginia
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Hi Scott,
I was just playing with the Lathe Flash OEM screen, and one thing I noticed is that this screen apparently does not trigger Mach3 to switch into turn mode. The reason I say that is with .lset screens you only see the turn wizards when you select wizards. When you have the Lathe Flash OEM screen loaded and restart Mach3 if you select wizards you get the list of Milling wizards not the turn wizards.
It seems to me that there was an OEM call mentioned a while back either here on on the Yahoo group to put Mach3 ino turn mode.
Thanks
John Guenther
'Ye Olde Pen Maker'
Sterling, Virginia
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Hey John,
sorry I missed this, been away......
You can also put somewhere in your "Init Frames", before your Mach frames come up: fscommand("Button" , "131" );
That will tell Mach it is a Lathe also, and it what I did on the Lathe Flash screens.
Scott
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Hey Scott,
Thanks for the reply, the lathe flash screens is what prompted the question. At any rate, I also asked on the Yahoo group and Art replied back tellling me to rename the screen to Mach3Lathe.lset.swf which I did and it worked. Art said that the .lset is what triggers turn mode in Mach3.
At any rate, it worked and it appears to be in turn mode, at least when yoiu click on Wizards you get the proper list for Turn.
John Guenther
'Ye Olde Pen Maker'
Sterling, Virignia
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well that code I put up also works, that is what I used on the Lathe screen (Per Arts recommendation as well).
when I bring up Lathe the flash screen, when I open wizards I get the Lathe wizards as well as the Lathe menu config stuff.......
really dont know why the Flash screen that is on this site, would not work for your machine, Steve Blackwell and several others tested it, and it worked and brought up Lathe on there machines no problem........... Your the first and only to tell me the Lathe screen didnt work on your machine.
NOTE: I saw that Jason said, on the mach Yahoo, that with the latest release of Mach3, that the VB calls from Flash to Mach Broke with the new scripter engine. Are you running the latest?
Art said, that when Brian gets back, that Brian will fix the VB break...........
Scott
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Hi Scott,
I am on R3.041, I tried the 3.042.001 version but went back to R3.041.
I will check it on the shop computer just to be sure.
Thanks for the reply.
John Guenther
'Ye Odle Pen Maker'
Sterling, Virginia
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If you Computer is Crashing with Flash here is some other things that Jason said, could be the cause:
-Not using the latest Flash Plug’ in
-Not installing the Flash Active X controller
-Not running Mach version 3.*********
-Running Mach in demo Mode
-Antivirus system not allowing Flash to run (you could be blocking any Adobe product from running on your system)
Add to that: running more that ONE version of the Flash plugin. DAMHITK, ;-)
-Nick
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Nick,
thank you for that little Pearl as well!!!!
Glad to see you back posting, PLEASE if you dont mind, would you repost some of the really nice Flash stuff you used to have up?? Plus any Examples of source code you feel appropiate to release.
Scott
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Hi Scott,
Here are the ones that used to be on the forum. They're pretty useless, but my point was to show that there are many unconventional things that one could do.
--> http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,7881.0.html
-Nick
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Has this ever been update since what was posted here? Seams like version v3.042.033 is the latest one to run correctly for threading on a lathe. I would love to use this flash screenset however I am unable to view the toolpath. The window shows "Tool1" then goes black when I have G-code loaded. Looks like this is the only bug. I would love to fix this issue or find an updated version.
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I was trying to learn Flash to make screens and had the same problem.... no Toolpath. I installed 3.42.020, and it worked. Then, re-installed 3.42.033 and it's worked ever since.
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Is there a way to make the toolpath display turn mode? I have it set to switch to turn mode in mach (.lset.swf) and I have verified it is in turn mode however the toolpath display is in mill / router mode. Is this the way it should be or is it just me? How would I go about correcting this problem?
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well, it used to work fine, but here is a work around for you.
1). Load your Lathe profile (which ever one you use, i.e. MachTurn).
2). If you have the lathe flash screen in there, and it show mill wizards instead of lathe wizards..
3). goto load screens, then load the STANDARD OEM Mach Turn screen set.
4). Then close, and reopen your profile, it will come back up with the STANDARD OEM lathe screen.
5). Check the Wizards, and make sure you see the Lathe wizards.
6). if you do, then your in a Lathe type profile for sure now, go back to Load Screens.
7). Now load your Flash Lathe screen, it should work correctly now this point forward.
scott
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Scott,
I have done what you said however I am still having issues. I even tried this on a 2nd computer with the same issues. I am running mach version 3.042.033. Here is where it gets weird. I get the correct wizards (ones for lathe) but when I go into ports and pins I get the mill options tab not the turn options tab. I think its stuck in some sort of hybrid mode. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Wes
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unfortunatly, I can't help you, since I dont get/see what your seeing........
Might be a Brian, or "Zealous" question, hands down, NO ONE is better at Flash with Mach3 than Jay, PERIOD.
but, the otehr thing you seeing could well be some kind of Mach3 bug that requires Brians level of access and debugging.
scott
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try the last SWF screen that worked from Post #9. in this thread, it is called:
"Mach3Lathe5.swf"
scott