Ray's New Gui

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

Well, I really don't use the backplotter, myself, since the CAM program
I use has both a simulation and backplotter built in. However, a choice
is always a good thing, but you have allready done a great deal of work
and I don't wish to be the one to tell you to do more :>)

I got a touchscreen monitor today from UPS that I bought on ebay
for $12.50. Will try that out and see how it works. If it doesn't work
I'm not out that much.

Bill

>
> 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
>
>
>