Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy

2011-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
Chris Radek wrote: > > > It's in the DRO, a star on the Absolute numbers. > I watched for that, but this display is not very clear, so I must have missed it. > >> Also, the indication of >> which axis is currently selected is hard to determine. >> > > This is because some of the ubun

Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 08:06:03PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote: > OK, I now have touchy running on a newly-built system. I have a few > things I've found that seem like they could be improved. One is that > there is no indication that an axis is homed. It's in the DRO, a star on the Absolute numb

Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy

2011-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
OK, I now have touchy running on a newly-built system. I have a few things I've found that seem like they could be improved. One is that there is no indication that an axis is homed. Also, the indication of which axis is currently selected is hard to determine. I would expect that the axis

Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 01:47:17PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote: > /usr/bin/touchy:73 GtkWarning: gdkdrawable_get_source_drawable: > assertion 'GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)" failed This warning is caused by a gtk bug and can be ignored. > One other oddity, after commenting out the line in the [HAL] sec

Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy

2011-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
Jon Elson wrote: > Hello, all, > > I am trying to get Touchy working on an EMC 2.4.6 system. I adapted > the changes made on that Gateway Profile system with the touch screen I > had at the CNC Workshop, but couldn't get it to run. I removed the hal > file touchy.hal from the list of hal file

[Emc-developers] Touchy

2011-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
Hello, all, I am trying to get Touchy working on an EMC 2.4.6 system. I adapted the changes made on that Gateway Profile system with the touch screen I had at the CNC Workshop, but couldn't get it to run. I removed the hal file touchy.hal from the list of hal files called in the .ini file, b

Re: [Emc-developers] AVR Brain Barfing, Stepgen, USB, etc.

2011-01-16 Thread Ron Bean
Kirk Wallace writes: >It may be that an Arduino could do this, but my impression is that there >aren't enough AVR pins coming out to where one could get to them. The >price of the smaller Arduino's seems to fit my plan though. The RepRap and MakerBot use a different AVR chip that has a dozen mor