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Got it figured out - based on the type of object, the size of the field controls the font height. Go figure  ??? By adjusting the height of the field, I'm able to size the font according.

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Mach 4 - LED Graphic
« on: December 25, 2020, 01:58:13 PM »
Is there anyway to change the icon for the round LED? Is it part of the binary? I'd like to clean them up, and provide a smoother looking round LED instead of the existing LED PNG.  As they are generally small and often on the grey background, it would be easy enough to create a better graphic...

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Mach 4 - Profile & Screen Font Sizing
« on: December 25, 2020, 01:55:12 PM »
I'm editing my screens for improved touch-screen layout. I want to change the font size of the screen and profile names. By default, they are 13pt font and I want them at 9pt, the same size as their labels. When I change the font size for the strings, they always revert back to 13pt. font.

Anyone know why? Is the font size set somewhere in code and it simply sets the font size when the strings are loaded/updated?

Yes, it is Christmas, the kids have not yet arrived, and I have a few moments of clear thinking and no distractions... 

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Mach4 Plugins / Re: Pokeys Mach4 plugin LUA reference for LCD
« on: July 21, 2019, 02:19:06 PM »
 :)  8)

Danie, you ROCK!  I've followed the instructions exactly as you provided and the LCD is now displaying the DRO info as I had hoped.

Thanks, I hope that I can someday provide similar input to solve a similar problem.

Trent

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Mach4 Plugins / Re: Pokeys Mach4 plugin LUA reference for LCD
« on: July 15, 2019, 09:56:59 AM »
Hi
My LCD is working well, will post the code in a day or two,

Regards
Danie

Thanks Danie, looking forward to seeing your solution.

Trent

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Mach4 Plugins / Re: Pokeys Mach4 plugin LUA reference for LCD
« on: July 14, 2019, 10:38:40 PM »
A few on the board seem to have gotten something working here. Can anyone help write up the final resolution to getting the output to the LCD?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 22, 2014, 08:21:04 PM »
Art,

I was able to get all the motors moving as they should - in the process I built an LED panel to make it easier to see the appropriate LEDs as my BoB is upside down under my table inside an old PC case, so was hard to see using a mirror under the table :/-

Initially, I had expected that the step LEDs should all be lit.  But it turned out they were not.  After some trial and error, I figured out that I had to negate the step settings for each port.  With that done, all LEDs for step are now lit. Now expecting that the step signals were coming through correctly, I expected things to work, and as expected all motors now move.  I also negated the Dir settings for each as well to get the motors moving in the right direction. :)  Glad the world can't see into my shop, as I had to do the happy dance for just a brief moment.  Now to limits and homing, and then  on proper motor timing.  Maybe some saw dust after that.

Thanks again for the advice and encouragement Art.

Trent

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 22, 2014, 01:59:24 PM »
Art,

I had my hopes really high with your suggestion I had the reversed the eStep and Dir pin on the X axis.  I did a quick swap on my way out this morning to verify that I had indeed swapped the pins.  However, to my dismay, changing the pin assignments didn't make any difference, except that the LEDs lit exactly the same way just opposite what it was before, and still no movement.  I'll give it a more thorough work over this evening or tomorrow and verify the settings.  I'm pretty confident I had the settings correct because I had printed screen shots of all my settings in Mach 3 and entered them exactly as I had them into Mach 4.

I have an older C10 Bob I may try for kicks and giggles, but would take much more effort to rewire and test.

Trent

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 22, 2014, 01:12:39 AM »
Ok, so I've took some time and watched the LEDs on my board while running Mach3 - btw, my board is the C1 rev10 from CNC4PC, so LEDs on all step/dir connections.

In Mach 3 all related motor LEDs are off by default.  On first move, the step LED lights up regardless of direction.  The direction determines whether or not the DIR LED lights up (as far as I can remember now, being late and I'm nearly an old fart).  Going X+ lights up the DIR LED, while then going X- turns off the DIR LED.  This behavior can be observed across Y and Z axis as well.

Now, in Mach 4, it is a similar story, but not quite.  The Y axis seems to behave as it should.  I disabled the other motors and then started to work through them all individually.  While the Y works as expected, I'm seeing interesting results on the failing X axis.  If I go X+ first, I only see the DIR LED light very dimly, as though it is getting no power.  The Step LED does not light at all.  However, if I then press X-, the Step DIR lights up brightly and stays lit (as I would have expected it).  If I then press teh X+ again, the Step LED goes out, while the DIR LED again lights very dimly.  

I stopped at X failing because this old man gots to go to bed (having started with Y because I knew I could get it to work and wanted to verify my sanity).  Will conclude next evening with Z and see if there are similar results.  I suspect that I have something crossed somewhere, but then again, maybe not.  Mach 3 works flawlessly, so it could be a number of things.  The CPU by the way stayed quite low - never over 10-15% that I remember seeing.  

I saw the same results with 1-17, and with 1-18 just released today having seen it posted while I was checking for feedback - Thanks Art!

Trent

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 22, 2014, 12:00:37 AM »
Okay, having reviewed the video for the 10th time, it occurred to me that I should be able to move my motors while running the driver test. Is this correct Art?

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