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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ScreenSet Question

« on: May 11, 2014, 10:42:49 PM »

HEY WAIT A MINUTE what is that "SELECT BEVERAGE TAB" doing on your screen ? You holding out on us

(;-) TP

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ScreenSet Question

« on: May 11, 2014, 10:40:20 PM »

Hey TP,
I just went to View/Load Screen/Screens/Blank.set.
Then, select a GROUP and drag it to fill the screen. (this may or may not be necessary but that's the way the original was, also left the "Label" empty) Then add a TAB control, drag it to fill the GROUP box (if it was even necessary ?). Click in the top of the TAB Control near the border (off the tabs) and click "Add a Page and place 6 or more as needed.
Then the real work begins.

I did this as an experiment but did not complete it with all the objects and such.
I'll assume it will work though, let me know if it don't. I plan to do similar in the future ... I see where you're going  and hope you might post the .set when you're done.     but will understand if you don't.

Russ

HIYA RUSS I was using YOUR works not mine(;-) YOu called it pages.

YES it is that Page looking ICON thingy with a + on it (;-)  I figured it out AFTER pressing every thing on the screen (;-)

Thanks, (;-) TP

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ScreenSet Question

« on: May 11, 2014, 10:31:53 PM »

OK I FOUND IT DUHHHHHH and slap to the head, (;-) TP

Good thing Gcode is not this complicated (;-)

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ScreenSet Question

« on: May 11, 2014, 10:21:47 PM »

HIYA Russ, I followed you up to the point of creating PAGES. I cannot find anywhere to do that. Can you break it down to rockhead speak (;-)

Even with touch screen(not the preferd method) you do NOT have enough internal function calls yet to do the job WITHOUT custom LUA coding. Can you find a Reset FRO to 100% button call ? So far M4 does not have all the calls that M3 did for button access.

MAYBE IF there is ever a proper Mach4/Lua/Wx.Lua manual I might can figure it out.

I can MAKE the screen LOOK Haas that is easy enough to get all the screen pages add and working from the tabs BUT that is the simple part (;-).

(;-) TP

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ScreenSet Question

« on: May 11, 2014, 10:05:40 PM »

OK i think I see where I went wrong(;-)

What I am trying to do is MIMICK a Haas Control Panel as they are about one of the best for todays operators as to ease of use.

BUT I have to have a simple Hotkey set up as it is mostly {Fkey} and KEYBOARD controlled. Also for teh normal control you must be able to use say {F9} on different pages with different meaning. It would depend on the page as to the meaning.

FOR ME that is not really  problem as I have 72 possible {Fkey} combinations to pick from.

AS is trying to {TAB} through all the stuff is all but impossible. You could break all the control panel selections down some MORE to limit the tab selection BUT it just adds to the complication.

BUT at this point I do NOT see a NO MOUSE solution on the horizon.

(;-0 TP

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ScreenSet Question

« on: May 11, 2014, 09:42:26 PM »

OK I took an existing screen and stripped it down to work BUT I still do not know how to create it from scratch.

NOW IF we only had hotkeys working I could make a dandy HAAS Lookin screen set.  But it could not do all the details of the Haas screen as it probably would take Programming in lua.

(;-) TP

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ScreenSet Question

« on: May 11, 2014, 08:31:08 PM »

OK this has me stumped. Can someone take the BLANK screen and add 6 tabs so it looks like mach3 screen. Once I see how it is done I think I can deal with it. As is it make no sense to me. I have tried but cannot get it to do as I want.

NOW where was that manual ??


(;-) TP

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Mach4 General Discussion / Edit a Gcode file while running another ?

« on: May 11, 2014, 05:00:02 PM »

YES you can(;-). Set up a button to open another instance of the gedit program and edit away while Mach4 runs another program.

(;-0 TP

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Bug Reports

« on: May 11, 2014, 04:12:39 PM »

Here is a screenshot of here it locks up and corrupts the Coord base or something.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Bug Reports

« on: May 11, 2014, 04:07:39 PM »

HI Graham, I figured that and it was not the problem the problem occured at the first G03 on line N9.

(;-) TP