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Works in progress / My Simple Screen for Touch

« on: June 13, 2007, 08:43:31 PM »

Here is some captures of my simple screen set for my router.  Artistic it is not!!

Touch screens that others have posted are too dark and hard to see on my old CRT touch monitor in a well lit shed.

Hence the bright (read garish) colours and large buttons.

I have not bothered with the diagnostics pages as Mach has the handy ability to have a second screen set available.

My second screen set is just the standard Mach screen so that has all the extra features.  It is accessed with the "Alt Screen" button.

I have made extensive use of "two state" buttons which will either change colour and or icon to indicate a different state.

Very much designed for my particular router and the way I work.  That's the great thing about Mach having a screen designer.

I would encourage more people to have a go at making screens to suit their own machines and methods.

Greg

EDIT:  Made some changes. Decided I did not want on screen jog buttons. Taking up room and I don't use them.

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Mach Screens / Re: Two State Buttons?

« on: June 10, 2007, 11:30:46 PM »

Thanks Zealous.  That work around works just as you said.   

Now my "two state buttons" which should really be called "two state leds" all work as I want.  YAY!!!!

Another question.  I want to apply it to HOLD or PAUSE or FEEDHOLD.

According to the LED list on the wiki  "Pause Active LED"  is 80   and "Pause LED" is 805  but neither work

I know that Art has had to play around with Feedhold a lot to try and keep all users happy. 

Maybe this is why it does not work.  Perhaps it did work in earlier versions.

Any Ideas? ..............  Greg

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JetCam screen designer / Re: List of Jetcam requests :)

« on: June 10, 2007, 06:20:36 AM »

As a Mach user newly trying to make my own screen design I have just read through this thread.

I had actualy read some of it before but then it was all gobbldeygook.   

Now having played with Screen4 a bit I understand what is being discussed a little better.


So how is it all going?  Any more progress?

Great job so far Stan.  Looking forward to putting it to use. 

Greg

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Mach Screens / Re: Two State Buttons?

« on: June 10, 2007, 02:47:13 AM »

Yes Graham I have seen it.  The 45 second long one demonstrates the "two state button"

However it wont work for me.    Must be doing something wrong.

This is what I'm doing.  For example a RUN button.

Set a LED and assign a two sided  BMP to it and set function "run"

Then place an IMAGE BUTTON over it and set it to function "run"

Try that in Mach and the button does not change state.

Go back to Screen4 and move the IMAGE BUTTON off the LED. 

Try again in Mach and it now changes state.

Back to Screen4 and move the IMAGE BUTTON to only half cover the LED.

In Mach now the half that is not covered changes state and the covered half does not.  Weird Hey!!!

So any ideas?  Am I doing something very stupid? 

Greg

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Mach Screens / Two State Buttons?

« on: June 09, 2007, 07:15:45 AM »

How do I get "two state" buttons to work with Screen4 ?

I can't seem to get it to work.  Any tips ?

Greg

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Mach Screens / Re: Why the black screens?

« on: June 01, 2007, 09:28:04 PM »

All I can say is WOW!!!!!

.

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Mach Screens / Re: Why the black screens?

« on: June 01, 2007, 08:09:48 AM »

Bump   

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Mach Screens / Why the black screens?

« on: May 30, 2007, 06:21:01 AM »

OK this is a serious question.  I'm not having a dig at anyone. 

I have just picked up a second hand touch screen for my router and want to put together a custom screen.

Both Hood and Zealouse have kindly posted screens suitable for touch screens.  Thanks for the efforts.

However both have things that I don't need and are missing things I want.  So I want to either modify or start from scratch.

Now to my question. Is there a reason that they have both gone for a gray to black theme?

Is this color scheme easier to see in a range of ambient light conditions?  Or is it just a style thing?

Thanks,  Greg

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Competitions / Re: ******Guess and win a G100 Grex******

« on: May 16, 2007, 03:52:30 AM »

If I was a master of wit and repartee I would post a very clever comment.

But I'm not so.....2,758,686

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Project just finished

« on: May 03, 2007, 10:09:18 PM »

Wow it's kind of skinny   

I've not seen one like that before.

Greg