> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 12:44:55 -0800
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Moving closer to embedded
>
> Hello Sarah,
> Much appreciated! I will start by sharing my thoughts and code. But it is
> unclear to me which approach is the best for everyone involved.
> As I mentioned before, I started with Gmoccapy. The more I think about it,
> the more I am thinking that it makes more sense to fork it as opposed to
> adding an embedded mode to it. The way I see it is that the embedded and
> desktop mods are just too much in conflict even though Gmoccapy seems to
> work best of all of the interfaces I have tested. So I think I am going to
> start by forking and removing all of the desktop specific things from
> Gmoccapy, unless someone has a better approach or suggestions.
gscreen was build with the idea of custom screens - in fact Gmoccapy
was a gscreen skin for quite along time.
There has been a gscreen skin built for a commercial plasma cutter.
then you don't have to fork you just add your code.
> Also, what's the deal with the tool editor?! Either I am not understanding
> the intent (if this is the case, someone please explain the design intent
> to me), or it is horrible. I will explain... There is a checkbox AND a row
> selection. You can have one row selected (highlighted) and another row
> checked. This is confusing at best, and difficult to use with a touch
> screen. Also, when using the on-screen keyboard, I find myself editing a
> field and then clicking on the next field which reverts the changes I just
> made. I have to force myself to slow down and click 'enter' every time. (I
> still find myself looping around and having to re-edit the same cell again
> and again because I am doing what I find natural and clicking on the next
> cell I want to edit.) I have made numerous changes to this to eliminate the
> checkbox, and to save the changes when the focus changes between cells. The
> problem is that in the meantime, someone added some tabs and such to the
> tool editor, so I need to update it for the changes. Anyone have
> suggestions here?
The original tool editor has checkboxes, Norbert of Gmoccapy added row
selection (IIRC), in retrospect the row selection is the way to go and seems to
not cause problems.
If you make improvements that you think the project might want you could
make a patch and post it on the dev maillist or forum. Be prepared for not
a lot of action on it though. In this case though the tooleditor was my project
and i would surely look at your changes.
Also if you update linuxcnc then having things change is kinda the norm.
If you make custom changes expect them to be overwritten.
Chris M
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