Re: TKemc

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

Good job, John

Tkemc is demanding.  I haven't tried it on anything less than 266 Mhz P2. 
But your performance may be about what could be expected.  You could try
reducing the refresh rate for tkemc.  This would make the backplot a little
more rounded in places but you could always run it with sim.

; Cycle time, in seconds, that display will sleep between polls
CYCLE_TIME =            0.250

or 

CYCLE_TIME =            0.300

If you go much beyond 0.30 you will see a lot of flicker.

If you want, we could build a stripped down display.  I've been working on
this along with the Tcl/Tk library routines.

For freqmod, you would need to slow down the period variable a whole bunch
and then gradually raise it until you encounter the mouse problems.  

Ray


On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, John wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Well with a little help from WIll S. and others I now have a running EMC
> system.  
<S> 
> I am experiencing a couple of problems.
> 
> 1.  TKemc works fine when running sim.run but is impossible to use when
> running emc.run.  Mouse movement is so slow you really can't do any
> thing productive.  Xemc is works ok, mouse is a little slow but useable
> 
> 2.  Freqmod locks up the entire system, requiring power off reset.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.