I think Qt is a good choice for modern UIs. * It has a history of more than 21 years. * It's used on safety critical environments (medical, automotive, ...) * It supports all relevant platforms. * It's open source. * Commercial support is available if necessary. * QtQuickVcp is already working fine, no need to reinvent here.
John Dammeyer writes: > There are rumours that RAD Studio will soon have a Linux Platform added to > their PC/Android/Apple Platforms. For those who don't know, the languages > supported are Delphi (think Skype, Altium CAD etc), and C++. Although it's > not a free development environment, the up side is with the click of a > selection in a drop down menu the target can be recompiled for any of the > platforms. That potentially makes it possible to develop a common user > interface for both local and remote control. And visual interfaces are > really easy to develop. > > I've done some remote control applications that run on both a PC Windows > Platform and my Android Tablet via Ethernet to DMX512A hardware. Simple > sliders for RGB control. > > In the long run this may be a better way to develop an updated user interface > for LinuxCNC. But I think it's still early days. > John > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alex Rössler [mailto:a...@machinekoder.com] >> Sent: November-21-17 2:32 AM >> To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) >> Subject: [Emc-users] Anyone interested in QtQuickVcp support for LinuxCNC? >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I have started a new VCP project approximately 4 years ago because I was >> very dissatisfied with what was already available in LinuxCNC at the >> time. >> >> From a users perspective, the UIs were not usable for 3d printers and >> did >> not even come close anything visually acceptable by the post-smartphone >> era customers. >> >> From a developers perspective VCPs where completely outdated and not >> even close to what modern UI toolkits offer. No developer really want's >> to work with tk, we can argue about Gtk2. >> >> From an OEM perspective, there was no option to build a close-source UI >> on top of LinuxCNC without a lot of effort. Additionally, if the OEM >> decides to stay with Gtk2, it's not supported anymore and (almost) no >> commercial help available. >> >> That's why I started a completely new approach for creating a VCP >> development kit based on QtQuick - which is Qt's UI development >> technology. >> >> QtQuickVcp comes with 2 reference UIs: >> - Cetus: designed as axis replacement: >> https://github.com/qtquickvcp/Cetus >> - Machineface: a generic and full-blown 3D printer UI: >> https://github.com/qtquickvcp/Machineface >> >> I agree both are not top notch when it comes to UI design. But with a >> little effort you can create great stuff with QtQuickVcp >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT-tAweP21U >> >> All UIs run on Linux, Windows, OSX, Android and iOS (not in the app >> store). >> >> To simplify remote deployment of the UIs one can simply download and run >> the "MachinekitClient" (yes, it's Machinekit only right now) and connect >> to the machine instance. >> >> This way, it's extremely simple to circumvent the limitations of >> embedded computers with weak graphics performance. Use a cheap 100$ >> tablet as your display and you are fine >> (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnJv07yeGt0) >> >> To support LinuxCNC would be quite simple. The machine/server part is >> based on Machinetalk - an open source middleware. >> >> Basically, it would be a matter of "adapting" mkwrapper, mklauncher and >> configserver (Python applications) over to LinuxCNC. >> >> HAL Remote - which is useful for custom extensions would require more >> effort, since it depends on the haltalk server - which goes deep into >> Machinekit. >> >> From the user perspective, I think the split between LinuxCNC and >> Machinekit makes absolutely not sense and is very confusing. To make it >> simple: Machinekit is focused on Non-CNC and LinxuCNC on CNC. >> >> Anyway, that's worth another discussion, but for a start it would be >> great if we could unity the UI land at least. >> >> UI is driving factor for modern CNC and QtQuickVcp makes it possible to >> create modern UIs for LinuxCNC. >> >> Requiring the Qt toolchain, which can be cumbersome to install, is not >> an issue anymore thanks to live coding support: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5rYhq06wio >> >> Stay tuned: I also have tools for drag and drop UI and machine creation >> in the >> making - because I think that's what made Mach3 so successful (despite >> the motion control is crap). >> >> Also upcoming thanks to Qt: Web Browser support: >> http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/07/07/qt-webgl-streaming-merged/ >> >> If there is enough interest, I will start porting the required tools. >> >> -- >> Alex R�ssler aka. 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