On Thursday 09 February 2017 13:24:28 Todd Zuercher wrote:

> This might not be a great solution, but is one I used once for a
> somewhat similar problem. PVCP panels have the ability to have tabs
> within them.  So if you want 4 different meter scales, set up 4
> different meters each on it's own tab.  It makes the XML file a bit of
> a large piece of ugly code, but It should at least work.
>
I'll cogitate on that Todd, but that seems like a good way to trigger the 
OOM detector on a 1 gigabyte equiped pi-3b.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene Heskett" <[email protected]>
> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
> <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017
> 12:56:06 PM
> Subject: [Emc-users] Changing the full scale range the pyvcp tach
> displays
>
> Greetings everybody, from the fringe of the snowstorm in the upper
> right coast;
>
> One of the things I would like to do is to change the full scale range
> of the pyvcp tachometer, which is set in the panel-pyvcp.xml file at
> present.
>
> I can of course edit that and restart LCNC, but until such time as I
> get some sort of a photocel/ir-led setup to determine the belt
> position, I'd like to setup a pair of gui buttons to change that full
> scale range.
>
> That looks like an 8 step up-down button pair for control.
> Its not a problem to edit up 8 copies of the xml, or perhaps just 8
> versions of the text changes needed. But how do I get pyvcp to
> re-execute and redraw the tach with the changed values?
>
> What do you folks recommend?
>
> The missus was walking, slowly and tenderly with a walker last night,
> so she will be ok in due time.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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