Re: Visual Tcl/Tk

[Ray <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Bill

One small correction.  I can't take much credit for tkemc.  That was in
large part Fred's work.  I got in early and watched as he wrote it and
learned a lot from him.  One small problem.  I'm not going to be much help
with visual Tcl/Tk.  I had it here somewhere but found it to be so clunky
that I abandoned in in favor of just hacking code.  I'd be happy to help
you as you work on this project.  I'l;l look for my visual tcl.

Now to the issue.  I wrote a 640x480 gui with a set of buttons alongside
the right edge of the screen.  My plan was to make it work somewhat like
most of the commercial controls that are menu driven.  I very much like
the low res approach for a lot of available hardware.  I think that touch
screen would be awesome.  John Moore from this list borrowed a touch
screen from someone nearby him at his former job and was able to get it to
work at least some with linux 5.2.

That gui got turned into the original tkbackplot which still works al lot
like it did.  If you , or others would like that old 640x480 gui I can
ressurect it for you.  Just send a personal note and it's yours.  Or
easier yet I'll put stkemc.tgz in the linuxcnc.org dropbox again.

If there is enough development interest, I could place that gui in the
sourceforge repository.

Ray

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Bill wrote:
> 
> Ray,
> 
> I just installed Visual Tcl/Tk on a linux machine and was wondering if it
> was
> possible to load TkEMC into it and make a few changes. I just want to move
> a few buttons around and possibly add a scrollbar and listbox where the
> G-Code program is loaded at the bottom of the screen. Mostly I'm just
> experimenting now, as I have an LCD screen, that in the future, I would like
> to
> integrate into a control panel to run EMC. Problem is it only does 640 X
> 480.
> I know about changing the font sizes and colors for this but I would like to
> arrange it a little differently. Not that there's anything wrong with your
> version, Ray :)
> 
> Tried loading the TkEmc file into Visual Tcl/Tk without much luck.
> Aslo created a symbolic link from wish to emcsh as I read 
> somewhere that emcsh takes the place of wish. No help.