On 11/24/22 12:07, Jérémie Tarot wrote:
Le jeu. 24 nov. 2022 à 17:16, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> a écrit :
On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 at 15:21, Feral Engineer <theferalengin...@gmail.com>
wrote:
The question always stands, does LinuxCNC want to gain mainstream
popularity or does it just want to remain a tinker toy to a select few?
I am happy with the latter, the support burden of the existing user
base is already too much... :-)
And we owe you and a bunch of other soooo so so much for taking it with
such patience, endurance and goodwill 🙏🙏🙏
My belief is that it's such a burden because we're not enough !
My impression is that with the efforts made for and goodness released in
the last versions, the community has grown but the project not that much.
This puts us into a resource starvation/growth crisis situation with only
two ways out, up or down, stagnation is death.
I somewhat agree Andy, but let me point out that it took over a year to
get a fix in, once I had identified how to fix it, as in another pin per
axis into axis to update the touch off target. The method forced on us
to do that update to the radio button circuit then required either a
click on the correct axis radio button, 3 feet or more from the dials on
the lathes apron, or a keyboard movement of the machine which destroyed
the precision of the intended touch off.
If others encounter that reticence, bug fixes needed are swore at, then
forgotten, and progress in LCNC's usability is not being made.
But everyone using a pendent, albeit with switches, has probably been
inconvenienced by that ever since dials or gamepads were invented. I
quit using my gamepad long ago, and that was one of the bigger reasons.
Now that the pin's have been made available, I may replace my too hard
to push push-buttons that allow me to adjust the jog speed of the dial,
with a spring loaded center off where up is the former range push
button, and down is a touch off of _that_ axis moved by any means to
0.00000 via the popup's entry. Cock a timer with that down push, If
another down edge is received in 2 seconds, use it for the keyboard
enter, zeroing the touch off. Only one down push, complete the touch off
from the keyboard. Not that hard to do in hal. Will I get the pins to
do that? IDK.
I've been here nearly 20 years, yet I feel I'm still an outsider when I
ask for what s/b a simple fix and is, for someone who knows the code. I
know just enough of the old python to be dangerous, and I know it.
hal is magic, but it needs more pins into the gui stuff to complete its
magic show.
Take care and stay well. Everybody.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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