Re: EMC Control Panel

["William Scalione" <wscalione-at-nc.rr.com>]

Wow, That looks great Ray, Do the controls disappear when
they are not needed? ie: when in auto mode do the jog buttons
go away? If so, thats really cool. How hard do you think it would
be to stick a scroll bar on the program window? Just a thought.

I just won a training course (book and multimedia CD) on TclTk
from ebay today, so I can help out a little if I can figure it out
once I get it. In the mean time thanks for all of the great work
you guys are putting into making EMC a really nice controller.

Thanks again, Bill

>
> William
>
> I hit a little troublesome snag on my new gui.  It isn't tkemc it is a
> bastard child that uses many of the same Tcl/Tk processes that tkemc uses.
> I have finished most of the writing for a 640x480 version of it and will
> ship it to you tomorrow.  I will also put it up on the dropbox then.
>
> A screen shot is attached so that, if it makes it past the NIST
> firewall, you can see that it is not just vaporware.
>
> Ray
>
> BTW - I put the feedhold toggle on the pause key.  It seemed to be the
> right thing to do.  It also got me around the problem of typing into one
of
> the editor window while the EMC is running a part and hitting an f and
> having that put the machine into feedhold.  Guess that I should do a
little
> more with bindings.
>
>
> On Fri, 07 Sep 2001, William wrote:
> > Hi Max,
> >
> > I am getting a book on TCL/TK and once I learn a little I'll
> > give it a try. I'm used to VB, and Delphi, (I'm not very good
> > at those either but I can stumble my way around) and this is not
> > quite the same. Ray mentioned he was working on something
> > that will allow changing sizes of TkEmc gui. While I think those
> > guys do a great job, I am feeling a little guilty, by not contributing
> > due to my ignorance. Time to put some time aside and learn this
> > stuff. Although I tried to load Kylix (Delphi for Linux) last night
> > on a machine and damn near tossed it out the window. First I need
> > to upgrade this component, but I can't upgrade that component until
> > I upgrade another component first and so on and so on. I think
> > my brain might be too old for all this Linux stuff.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hello Bill
> > > > I also need to modify the TkEmc file to better fit into a 640X480
> > display.
> > > This is on my list too. So if you have a better arrangement for
640x480,
> > please
> > > drop me a line.
> > >
> > > Max
> > >