On Tuesday 21 November 2017 22:24:07 Chris Morley wrote: > Gene you are implying that gladeVCP is not stable, based on a single > faulty widget. > > That widget is in fact NOT part of official linuxcnc and uses a fairly > obscure library and > > is not active maintained. > > > Unfortunately we are in a 'perfect storm' for stability and > maintainability. > > Python QT and GTK have new versions that break old programs (GTK3 much > worse) > > and python is also switching from 2 to 3, breaking old libraries. > > > I would suggest leaving gladeVCP as gtk2 for as long as possible even > if we have to > > maintain a glade-GTK2 libraries of our own. > > > anything new probably should use the most current libraries we can > reasonably > > be assured are available in Debian , Ubuntu and Mint (The seemingly > three favorite > > distributions). > > > Gene - the other things you asked about buttons that can change color > and text are available > > in gladevcp - hal_light buttons - though i'm not sure if they are in > 2.7
glade-gtk2, the editor/composer also suffers from this, it went away with a segfault just now, while it was about once a minute, resizing the camera output above the row of control buttons. Same error as quoted elsewhere + the segfault. If I now restart it, the camera will not show for several minutes, eventually showing a tiny square that grows about 10% a minute until it gets close to the cameras native size, growing until it goes away with that same error + the segfault. If not here, where do I complain or file a bug report? > > > But lets try and leave the discussion on topic please - future > decisions. > I agree Chris, but this seems to be the only thread that has acknowledged the problem I am having. And yes, the hal_lightbutton seems to exist, it is in the menu list on the left when glade-gtk2 is called as the editor. I have installed probably 100 megs worth of gtk2 stuff, but I suspect I've not hit the correct combo yet. Or that some of the glade3 stuff is getting called instead of the correct glade-gtk2 pieces. Trying to nuke anything glade3 looks like it would kill the system, so I back away from doing that. I am all in favor of any new VCP that will do the job. pyvcp just works, but is missing lots of stuff and wastes screen real estate doing what it does. > Chris M > > ________________________________ > From: Gene Heskett <[email protected]> > > The panel for camview, goes away leaving a blank white screen on the > tab where the camera is displayed if either dimension of that tab > assigned to the camera, is within 20 pixels of the cameras native > pixels eventually, or instantly if the window area available exceeds > the cameras 640x480 screen size. The gladevcp buttons at the bottom of > that window also go away at the same time, and at the instant it > fails, logs this to the terminal that started LCNC. > > /usr/bin/gladevcp:295: Warning: g_object_ref: assertion > `object->ref_count > 0' failed > gtk.main() > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
