Re: EMC Control Panel

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

William

This pausing is a "feature" of the backplotter that Paul wrote.  This
plotter uses lines in the canvas widget rather than points like my old one
did.  It is really much more efficient, more so with the rotate and zoom
features.  But these lines need to be computed all the time or the machine
paused during the other work of rotation and zoom.

What I do here is allow the plotter to run through the section of code that
I'm interested in with the motors off.  

Perhaps I should modify a copy of the original plotter and let users select
which will be the default.

Let me know what you think.

Ray


On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, you wrote:
> Ray,
> 
> One thing I noticed while playing with the new gui is that,
> 
> when running a program, in auto, with the backplotter up
> clicking on reset or refresh (on the backplotter) or opening
> or closing the backplotter will cause a jump or pause in the
> motors. It is very brief and I can only hear it when the axis is
> on a long move. In other words if the axis is making a lot
> of small moves I won't hear it. This may not have anything
> to do with your gui, but I thought I would mention it.
> 
> Bill