Re: Floppy-EMC? and some other questions

["bfp" <bfp-at-earthlink.net>]

>Jon wrote
> It can be crushed down to arbitrary resolution.  I haven't had the time
> to do it properly, but I did reduce the size just enough to make it
> functional on the 640 x 480 default resolution.  Fred Proctor pointed
> me to the place where the fonts are called up in the old Xemc gui.
> I'm sure there is a similar section in the TkEmc GUI that selects
> several fonts to be used for various parts of the display.  The thing
> that eats much of the space is the axis displays.  If these fonts are
> cut down to a more reasonable size, and maybe drop the size of
> the other fonts one notch, it should work fine in 640 x 480.  If the
> screen is set up for a 1024 x 768 virtual screen and mouse-autopanning,
> then the current arrangement works fine, but you have to scroll
> around to get to some parts of the display.

yes I have seen this on the handbook site
I dont think its the axis readouts taking up to much space they are
the things you need to have stand out at you
its all the other functions on the screen (jog,overrides,coolent,etc)
that could be moved to a pendant or control pannel that are taking
room away from the stuff that is better left on screen


hmmm...
just a thought
if a set of GUIs were available 'pre-crushed' to 640x480
then
in the install script there might be a line like

./set-EMC_UI

to call a script like this one
(the paths will need to be changed of course)

---------CUT HERE----------------------------
#! /bin/bash
# filename = set-EMC_UI
# creates a symbolic link named EMC_UI to the user interface of
# your choice and overwrites any link that may already exist
# you can select EMC_UI in your ini file or call
# the interface by name (ie tkemc ,etc)
echo
echo " Please select the user interface you would like to use for EMC"
echo
OPTIONS=" \
 xemc     xemc-640x480\
 yemc     yemc-640x480\
 tkemc     tkemc-640x480\
  keystick\
 emcpanel\
 "
select opt in $OPTIONS; do
 ln -sf $opt EMC_UI
 echo "Created link from $opt to EMC_UI"
 exit
done
-------------END HERE----------------------------------------

sure its a kludge but it still lets you use your old ini files if you dont
want to
edit them to use the new link and if you do use it the script gives you a
way
to change the interface without having to open and edit the ini files at all
just
run the script from the shell prompt

Brian