I find the the alignment features a pain at times. Would be nice if there was a nudge feature to move items using the arrow keys. Moving a selected group with a mouse is a bit touchy.

Have you tried the "Snap to Grid" function ?
I played with it a little bit and it seemed to allow quite precise positioning.

Russ

You can also use the Ctrl and up, dn, lt, rt. and items will move the entered grid increment.

FYI,
Russ

You can also use the Ctrl and up, dn, lt, rt. and items will move the entered grid increment.

FYI,
Russ

Very handy, but there's a minor bug. When moving the control using CTRL+arrow keys, the position in the properties doesn't update until you click another control. I'll post this in the bug reports section.

Have not used the grid as of yet, but what is it set too, and how do you change the grid step size?

Upper left corner, change "Freehand" to "Snap to Grid".
Grid setting is right next to it.

Opps, guess I should have looked, thanks Gerry

Now if I could just select multiples by boxing them instead of using Ctrl select for each.

Now if I could just select multiples by boxing them instead of using Ctrl select for each.

Now that would be very handy, I made a mess trying to figure that out. 

Russ

Added a tool change button, enter in new tool, press button, follow screen history messages to complete for manual tool change.

How about sharing some of this code?

  WHAT? Your the Screenset salesman you should be showing us how to do all this.  

I've posted many snippets of code, ideas to inspire and show, it is not that difficult.
Is my screen set sale-able like yours? or you just looking for someone else to do the work?

Sorry Gerry your the last guy I would have thought, to ask that.
If you wanted to trade code you could have PM'd me.  

Don't get me wrong there is a long time between now, and production ready for mach4
I'm  just taking this opportunity to get a jump on Lua programming and creating a few
screens features that would work for several applications and ideas I have in the works.

The code that Scott has written is fantastic for making it easier to address some of the tedious details.
Nick has provided some inspiring code snippets that drove me down a new adventure.
TP has poked a stick at the bear, and gotten me more involved with the probing scripts.
Illya modbus screen was an eye opener to the Modbus interface.
I'd never worked on modbus before but attempted it and now from that understand more
and found how easy it was to Write and Read to the Registers giving me a new tool to
share information to my MPG Wizzard for example.

Brian and Steve have provided us a whole new platform. New revisions and upgrades to Mach4 are now happening
I might find that my code wont work with the new LUA 5.2 and wxWidgets 3.0  
Just discovered this last week the Lua call stack and how vast and informative it can be.
I'm a bruised up kid in a ice cream shop with a big spoon.
Give me more!