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Hi Steve,

thank you for your attention and reply.
Sorry for the late response. I missed your posting, although notification was checked.

Anyway ...

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The way to disable the automatic scaling of the screen elements is to develop the screen in the resolution that it will used.
Well, that was my assumption, but is not the reality.
I have a monitor with 1920x1200 rotated into portrait-mode.
So I built the screen (from scratch) with resolution 1200x1920

The "static text" will always perform an autoscale. Although not changed in size, the fontsize differs between edit- and work-mode and the scaled font will not be aligned to the font's baseline, so the letters get cropped (therefor I tried to use bitmaps instead of static texts)

The rotated screen orientation works fine in a virtualbox, but does not work on native windows box (this time it was win7). Rotation of screen is not performed by windows itself, but by the grafic driver (nvidia).

To me it looks like mach4 gets the screen-parameter from windows before rotation.
May be, it is necessary to ask a different layer?
Just guessing - I don't have any knowledge on that item.

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Mach 4 Industrial has tool table, offset, and in screen editor controls. 
I built tooltable- and offset-table control with little lua coding. Result is ok for me.
OK, may be I have to build my own gcode-control as well.

Cheers Reinhard

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Hi,

recently I worked on new mach4 Screensets. I want to use a monitor in portrait mode, as it wastes less space ...

I created the screen set in a win7-VM on my linux desktop. In edit mode mach4 works fine in VM. Outside edit mode toolpath area stays on top of all, even if you switch notebook to a page without toolpath ...
Picture Mach4_VM_01.png shows the actual result (which looks quite nice to me).
As I could not manage font handling of static texts, I used bitmaps instead of static texts.

Then I took the screen file to a box running native win7, where my screen set looks really weird.
Main menubar is displayed twice (now parts of titlebar are shown twice) and many sizes/positions and font-sizes don't match.
Picture Mach4-OWin_01.jpg shows a screenshot.

Then I switched to mach4 into fullscreen mode (Mach4-OWin_02.jpg). Now the whole screen is wrong sized.

My intention for this screen set was, to create a screen, that can be managed without mouse - and for those I tried to avoid child windows, popups and the like.
I was able to reimplement tooltable and fixtures list as notebook page, but I did not find a way to do inplace editing of loaded gcode file (yet).

I would be very happy, if someone can guide me to a way to inhibit automatic zooming or even automatic font size changes.

Cheers Reinhard

P.S. both win7 installations are the same and mach4 is build 4199

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Mach4 General Discussion / ChangeLog.txt - Thank you!
« on: January 12, 2019, 03:18:07 AM »
Hello,

I just want to say "Thank you" for taking the time to update ChangeLog.txt
This file is the only way, that we can track that someone is working on mach4 and what's going on.
Latest chunk shows some very interesting work. Very nice in deed :)

Cheers Reinhard

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Mach4 General Discussion / mach4 installer resets grafikcard settings
« on: November 05, 2018, 01:44:12 AM »
Hi,

last days I worked on optimizing setup of my windows box.
Normally I work on linux, where I have two monitors in portrait orientation - which works fine so far.
My windows box has the same grafik card and as I have a dual view switcher, I installed the driver of the grafik card and set it up to use both monitors with turned sizes.
Works fine so far and setup is stable between multiple reboots.

Then I installed mach4 and after next reboot, the grafik card settings have been reset.
I tought: ok, may be a quirk - and changed the grafik card settings to my need again.
But after starting mach4 I had to realize, that mach4 does not respect the desktop size. There's no way to resize app window beyond the limits of a single monitor. I can move mach4 between the monitors, but it always jumps to max limits of a single monitor.

To proove, that its not a windows malfunction, I checked the same with another 3rd party software - lego mindstorm.
That app is able to resize to both monitors as well as to a size occupying parts of both monitors.

Cheers Reinhard

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: FTP site access
« on: September 05, 2018, 04:33:39 AM »
I'm no developer and I have no problems to access ftp-server of machsupport.
Ah - I use firefox from linux os

cheers Reinhard

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Hi Craig,

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I bash the Chinese because they make and sell s***t and then don't even bother to help or answer their emails.
I'm only against bashing of ALL chinese, without limitation.
I believe, that ANY generalization about people is wrong. ALWAYS!

I'm from germany and I have bad experiences with german sellers. I was cheated and when I accused the company, I was told, my incrimination is not of public interest - so the company can continue cheating customers.

On the other side I have very promising experiences with chinese sellers. I got great support and yes, they cared about me being satisfied with their service.

So what - are all german sellers bloody bastards and chinese sellers are angels?
Probabely not. For sure!

That's why I say: there are good guys and bad guys all over the world. In every country from any nation.
Generalization is bad and wrong. Accuse the real person - and tell about good experiences too.
That's the way, we should handle each other - well, at least in my opinion.

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Bryanna, an
NFS employee has stated in a number of posts that  NFS DO value hobby customers.
Well, Steve stated that too. I appreciate Steve a lot - as he is the most valuable writer of this forum (from my point of view), but ...
... for me, that sayings about Hobby customers are only promises - hollow words. Nothing more.
I don't care for sayings or promises. I only care for what people are doing.
... and from what NFS does, I can't see any estimation of hobby customers. That might have been true in the early days of mach4, but not for now.

Cheers Reinhard

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Craig, what the crap are you talking about?
I don't like that chinese bashing - in china you'll find the same people like all over the world. Good guys and bad guys - bad guys are not a chinese invention!

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so they're not that silly....and do they care whether we're happy on not? No.
Show me a profit oriented organisation that cares about the happyness of their customers.
If you find one, I'm pretty convinced, that you found some liars only!
Profit oriented organisations care for the happiness of their owners only! - And its the same, all over the world.

Do you remember discussion about mach4 and hobby state about half a year ago?
That discussion raised some good points - and although guys from artsoft stated, that they care about hobby users - nothing has changed since then. So what? Does artsoft care about we're happy or not? No!
So what's the difference between them and the chinese people?

Cheers Reinhard

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Sure screeneditor has several shortcomings/issues on big edit sessions.
What really helps, is the simple format of the screen file itself.
The screen-file is a zip-archive with a screen.xml at root level.
That screen.xml is a simple text file, so you can extract it and use any text-editor or xml-editor.
If you use a simple text editor, you're responsible on your own for pattern matching. But it is not difficult at all.
I use gvim on linux systems with good result.
Tab-reordering is just a matter of moving a number of rows - not a challenge :)
If you take care for the xml-patterns, you can change anything with the text-editor, which makes big changes fast and easy.
When you're done put the xml-file back into the screen-ziparchive and start mach4 with that file.
If you did no mistake, anything works fine.

Cheers Reinhard

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Variable plastic extrusion rate on A axis?
« on: January 27, 2018, 09:30:35 AM »
Hi,

I would recommend, leaving the motion control as is and adjust the extrusion in the slicer (cam). Usually you have a reason, why u would like to apply a factor to extrusion. Slic3r and cura support extrusion factors on various conditions. Other slicers may have similar options. There are options related to filament (selected material) as well as model dependant options.
Enable expert settings and just dive into the options. For cura you first have to enable visibility of expert options in the settings.

Reinhard

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Is Mach4 really Hobby Material?
« on: January 27, 2018, 01:10:05 AM »
Hi,

to understand mach4 programming it is helpful, if you already know multithread programming.
If you never had to deal with multiple threads, there's a nightmare of pitfalls you can't be aware off.
But that's not an issue for artsoft!

After reading the provided pdfs, I took the core-api-docs and startet to read it as a book. That helped a lot. Even if I can't remember any prototype, I have an idea, what's there and so I find the function very quick.

Then to understand the big picture, it helped me, read the screen.xml - extracted from the screen set. At first look most of it looks very strange. But if you try to get into it, you get a feeling for the big picture. You realize the power of mach4, its advanced archtecture and much more.

More documentation would be fine - but we don't live in a perfect world.

... and if you ever get stuck and trapped - that's the point to come here and ask for help.
That way worked for me and it will be fine for others too :)

Cheers Reinhard

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