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Works in progress / Re: Screen with soft keys?
« on: February 15, 2008, 08:42:21 PM »
Someday I really want to learn this Flash stuff. For now Ill get this job done with screen4 and VB. DROs do respond to a hot key so if I arrange them so they line up with a button I can give the DRO focus and simply type in numbers.

I think we need to push for a good flash session at the CNC workshop- likely a days worth or more.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: V 2.77 ready for test
« on: February 15, 2008, 01:00:21 PM »
Damn, I never saw that one before. I was thinking about doing something like that for my mill that has a touch screen. Ill have to run out to the shop now and try it.

I have no control over that from VB, so I cant tell if it should work with the wizards or not. If it works on any DRo it ought to work in a wizard.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: V 2.77 ready for test
« on: February 15, 2008, 10:52:08 AM »
How do you do that? Ive never seen such a pop up keypad. You must have some application or driver loaded that does that- it is not part of Mach or the wizards.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: V 2.77 ready for test
« on: February 15, 2008, 07:47:00 AM »
The help menu bar will only show Mach, not the wizard. The first wizard screen, where you select material, has a V number in the upper right corner, by the Newfangled logo.

I dont understand your entry problem. VB has no way to make pop-up windows. If you click on a DRO it highlights to show it has the focus and you can type numbers to it, but there are no popups. Are you sure you are using the Newfangled set?

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Works in progress / Screen with soft keys?
« on: February 14, 2008, 09:45:40 PM »
Has anyone tried to do a screen with soft keys- Im thinking of mounting a flat screen in a cab with a row of physical buttons along one or more edges. The screens would have buttons placed right along these edges.

In particular, Id like to put some DROs along the edges, so a softkey could be set up as a hot key to activate the button.

What IM trying to get to is a mouseless display, but not a touch screen.


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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: V 2.77 ready for test
« on: February 13, 2008, 06:38:10 PM »
What if you click the Help button? or the Continue? One of the problems Brian is working on in the latest dev version is some strange VB hangs, maybe thats whats happening here.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: V 2.77 ready for test
« on: February 13, 2008, 02:16:12 PM »
The material selection screen changed a couple versions back. Instead of the fixed buttons, with speed and feed data in the button code, the data is now in a file that can be edited with a text editor to include any material you use, and your selection of speeds and feeds. Clicking the button will open a dialog box with a material selection list.

Are you saying that clicking the "select Material" button does not open a dialog box?

This does require a reasonably later Mach version, something from at least late last summer or fall.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / V 2.77 ready for test
« on: February 13, 2008, 01:22:50 PM »
I have fixed some of the problems reported so here is a new version. The fixes are:

Changes to the surface wizard. This was actually done a while ago, but somehow fell out of the V2.76 code. I hope its back to stay :-)

The circle cut wizard had some problems with the lead-in cut for tool comp. It was correct in the Preview display but wrong on the Post code. The tool comp radius was being calculated as toolR*1.15, it should have been toolR*1.5

The thread screen had a couple bugs, a redundant start move.

I found some junk in the Bitmaps folder so the zip file is now 300kb smaller.

Download the zip file and unzip it into the Addons folder.

April 15, 2008- I removed the file, a V2.78 is now loaded to a new topic

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Power feed wizard
« on: February 12, 2008, 11:57:12 AM »
The X+ limit is OEMDRO 1102. It works fine for me, have you got 1102 defined in a macropump?

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Power feed wizard
« on: February 11, 2008, 04:32:31 PM »
OK, I added a AUto return on Feed button. If it is set then any Feed move will do the feed, followed by a rapid return to the starting point. It will also do the Z up function if that button is ON

Unzip this file into the Addons folder, the files shuold wind up in Addons\PowerFeed XY