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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: 1/5th Scale V8 Blown

« on: September 19, 2011, 02:18:28 PM »

I got rained out at work today so I took a few hours in the garage. I guess this would be the official kickoff of the Version 2, Small V8. It is the same engine with a roots blower. I would guess this one will go a bit faster than the first but the way work is I don't know if I'll get back in the garage this month, or next month.

My friend Ron wants to bend the tubing in his new bender for the zoomies so i made the flanges today. The last time I made them I drilled and reamed the holes for the pipes. That didn't work well in .063 thick plate so this time I milled the holes .010 smaller and then reamed them to 5/16. Still not perfect bit I am alot happier doing them this way.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Button Color?

« on: September 11, 2011, 08:59:47 PM »

The folder name must always be \Bitmaps\ for all screens and wizards.

Where were you a couple hours ago?

Thanks Ger21!!

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Button Color?

« on: September 11, 2011, 06:39:57 PM »

SAY something like
G:\Mach3\TurnAddons\PenMaker\Bitmaps\PenStopButton.bmp

Good call!  I changed my sub folder name from "images" to "Bitmaps" and deleted the path in machscreen and I can now see the button when running in mach.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Button Color?

« on: September 11, 2011, 06:25:34 PM »

Steve the only thing I can suggest is that it MAY be a permissions thing where MACH3 does not have permissions to use that directory where the images are stored???.

THAT IS a big problem in Vista. May want to try running MACH  as ADMIN to see if it makes a difference.

AND double triple check the path in MACHSCREEN for the button. Or try moving it to a different directory and path???

SAY something like
G:\Mach3\TurnAddons\PenMaker\Bitmaps\PenStopButton.bmp

If it helps i'm running XP

the "Image path can only be changed, if no setfile data is loaded." error is a machscreen error.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Button Color?

« on: September 11, 2011, 04:34:46 PM »

I tried to change the path to the bitmap and i got this error.

Image path can only be changed, if no setfile data is loaded.

Does that mean anything to you?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Button Color?

« on: September 11, 2011, 04:32:10 PM »

I see that you have mach3 running on G drive is that correct?

Just a thought,(;-) TP

That is correct. That is my primary drive where windoze is installed. c: is for storage only and backup copies of certian things.

I do have the bitmap in a subfolder of the wizard.

All the other wizards and mach have buttons similar and they show up.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Button Color?

« on: September 11, 2011, 04:05:42 PM »

User defined image path is set!

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Button Color?

« on: September 11, 2011, 03:59:54 PM »

Have you gone to the image and make sure it is not an empty image? Load it in paint??

Did it load UNDER the screen image by chance?

Just a thought, (;-) TP

It's a good image that I created in paint. It shows up in machscreen.

I don't know how to check and see if it loaded under the screen image.  How do I check that?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Button Color?

« on: September 11, 2011, 03:31:36 PM »

Are you using an image button in Machscreen?

Yes I am.

Function             Stop
Code                  3
Image path         G:\Mach3\TurnAddons\PenMaker\Images\PenStopButton.bmp

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Button Color?

« on: September 11, 2011, 03:03:55 PM »

Hiya Steve, are you building screens or are you building Wizards(:-).

If you look at where things are stored for a wizzard (addons) you see that the bitmaps are normally stored in the wizards's directory under bitmaps.
C:\Mach3\Addons\Nameof Wizard\Bitmaps for example.

It's a wizard for making pens. I'm doing it for a friend that makes custom pens.

I put the bitmap in G:\Mach3\TurnAddons\PenMaker\Images

The bitmap shows up in MachScreen but when the wizard is loaded into mach the button is invisable. Im trying to figure all this out just to have a red stop button.