Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] INI edit from inside gui
On 11/02/2017 07:42 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote:
I do a lot of upgrades to Chinese routers from their controller to
Mach3. I have been using an Atom type mother board for the last five
years together with a detuned Windows XP installation. It is always a
parallel port driver installation.
I am finding it more and more difficult to get motherboards that will
support XP and today my supplier warned me that the motherboards of
the future will not install XP at all.
The reason that I install Mach3 with a parallel breakout is purely
because it is so easy to do and my customers do not need to learn
linux.
Now I am thinking that the time has maybe come to do a Mach
replacement controller that will be just as easy but running linuxcnc.
If I use Gmoccapy for instance and add a page or two that can edit a
configuration similar to what one does in Mach, then there might be
less resistance to using linuxcnc.
So I would imagine that there will be a matrix of pins and signals
that could be configured from within the gui and a standard INI file
with parameters for calibration of motor parameters and others.
Will it be possible to reload or restart linuxcnc from inside the gui
and more so, what do the gurus think of such and idea? Is it at all
feasible?
Why do you want to restart Linuxcnc from within its own GUI? Seems
like you should be able to set up the configuration once and then just
keep using the same setup, possibly with editing the resolution, axis
limits and such. For software generated steps, there is a setup wizard
that handles that. It is not run from within LinuxCNC, but is an
external program that writes the configs file set.
Jon
When I asked the question I did not know about the setp function for
parameters. I am fully aware of the config programs. I have been using
linuxcnc for many years :). I do however think if the easy setup methods
of Mach3 is emulated for at least parallel port driven configs, it would
make the transition from Mach3 to linuxcnc much easier. Especially for
not geek users. I dont see any reason why it cannot be done from within
a GUI like Gmoccapy.
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