Re: EMC Control Panel

["Ian Wright" <Ian-at-iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Nice job Ray.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray" <rehenry-at-up.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
Sent: 08 September 2001 05:10
Subject: Re: EMC Control Panel


>
> 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
> > >