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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 screen GRAPHICS -- makin' it Purdy

« on: January 27, 2016, 02:04:05 PM »

Oh ok, I got that wrong.. Still I have a similar issue in the Mach4 screen designer so I wonder if anyone noticed that too.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 screen GRAPHICS -- makin' it Purdy

« on: January 27, 2016, 01:08:49 PM »

Hi there,

I'm doing a big rework on my custom Mach3 screen to port it to Mach4. I've already played around a bit with the designer, read through the manuals and threads but now I'm at the point at which I need some questions to be answered to get some nice graphics stuff working; since this thread contains some promising suggestions I allow myself to take it up again for further inspiring discussions  

1. working with multiple pages: I have multiple pages in my screenset (don't want to have them be organized in tabs because of graphical reasons) and I want so have a "Master page
" whose objects (buttons, labels etc.) are visible on all other pages. In the machscreen screendesigner there was such a master page. In the screen 4 designer I can see all objects from all other pages, but during runtime I only see the objects of the active page. So: why can I always see all objects of all pages in the editor, but more important, is there a way to make certain objects visible to all pages?

2. transparent image buttons: another important questions for me as it would save a lot of work.. for this I took up this thread.

3. LEDs with images: I need images on a LED toggled by the state of the LED. Since LEDs in Mach4 doesn't support images by now, did I get it right that one possible solutions is to monitor the led state in the PLC script and then change the image of an image object according to this state? So I have to write code for every "image LED" I want to have, but I have the advantage of having more than two states, right?

some other issues I've encountered, not sure if they are bugs, features etc. so I first wanted to ask..
4. objects moving by themselves (if screenset is larger than monitor): I've noticed that some, if not all of my object change their position nearly every time I switch from editor to runtime mode. Maybe because my screenset is bigger than the editing area? It's for 1280x1024, so the actual design size is 1272x950 (res. minus taskbar and menue), my monitor has 1680x1050; so it might be the issue mentioned here?:

Yes, it works fine for me. You do need to get used to it, and do things a certain way. Also, I use it in XP, it may not work as well in newer OS's.
Also, I've heard that if the screenset is larger than your monitor, and it uses scrollbars to display it all, it can have issues.

5. What's the "Lock Position" Button for? I don't see any effects..?

6. The "o"-Key isn't working in the screen designer tree manager window and the object properties window for me. Anyone has the same issue?

Thanks for any suggestions, Jerry

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Mach Screens / Re: Screen 4 Buttons - Font Size and Transparent?

« on: January 27, 2016, 12:04:57 PM »

Hi,

since I'm reworking my custom Mach3 Screen for Mach4 I'm also looking for a way how to create transparent buttons. I want to have most of the buttons on my background image instead of dealing with a single graphic for each button. I tried the solutions mentioned above but didn't get them to work. When I put a transparent image on an image button it will show the grey background of the button, and the background won't show through it. So is there any other solutions or suggestion how to solve this?

Thanks Jerry