Re: help with customizations ?
Yes. It would almost be faster to write a program to generate the graphical parts of the program. I'm still trying to track down the original author of the C program I rewrote in Pascal for the
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John Dammeyer
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Re: mach 4 and How complex
It's the constant changes to the UI that so irritate me. If you're writing the software, and you want to play with a new UI, I'm fine with that! Just make it a choice I have to make, and accept, to
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Bill in OKC too
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gamepad
i know i have done it in the past and might have the plugin somewhere but i wanted to try the gamepad plugin for mach3 and although it is on the plugin page there is no way to download it. the other
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[email protected] <spencer@...>
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Re: mach 4 and How complex
There has been a huge trend away from the (Common User Architecture) CUA developed after years of research by IBM and originally supported by Microsoft. Ever since Android came onto the scene with
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John Dammeyer
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Re: help with customizations ?
tedious, i know that. this was made in perl TK? every key had to be specified. at least i did write a script to calculate the coordinates. i doubt i would have the patience to do this today.
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[email protected] <spencer@...>
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Re: mach 4 and How complex
Hi,
This is truly the first time I have ever seen this be something that was an issue. I will check with the support guys and make sure they have not seen this as well.
Now as far as making a new
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Brian Barker
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Re: help with customizations ?
he he.... you can carry that programming pargrym back to it's origins in 1988 (officially 1989 for MS) with Visual Basic for DOS. Even into the early 2000's the opening screen still said portions
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Paul Tegler
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Re: help with customizations ?
This was done in Delphi circa 2003 I think. Touch screen on WIN-98 IIRC. Create the button, drag and drop and copy and drag and drop and copy and drag and drop. Then once they are all arranged go
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John Dammeyer
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Re: help with customizations ?
Make little graphical programs in perl using tkx i have done some pretty fancy stuff years ago but tkx is vertainly not drag and drop every graphical widget has to be written by hand when i look at
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[email protected] <spencer@...>
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Re: help with customizations ?
An example is best perhaps. With MACH you get wizards. Because it's difficult or at least tedious in Linux to create dialogs like this the programs that do this tend to be command line programs. I
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John Dammeyer
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mach3 jogging issue
I think I am too old to switch to Mach4. What i am mainly trying to do is to get the router working so well that others can use it without breaking expensive bits or worse. I will get a better idea on
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[email protected] <spencer@...>
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Re: help with customizations ?
Hmmmmmmm - - - - the last part of your sentence is where I started -
- - - quite some time ago. Today - - - - I often use the CLI - - - -
is often faster and neater.
I don't always prefer CLI - - -
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o1bigtenor
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Re: help with customizations ?
Hi Bill.
I'd be the first to say that I have my issues with Linux because there are so many versions of user interface and unless you love being in the early 70's with a passion for command line
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John Dammeyer
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Re: mach 4 and ess
<ptegler@...> wrote:
My main computer still is miles from inadequate for everything that
I've been trying lately - - - - its 9 years old too.
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o1bigtenor
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Re: mach 4 and ess
it works. i do have to say that plain text is not conventionally used as an indicator of a button or clickable link or any active screen component. there are all sorts of ways of calling attention to
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[email protected] <spencer@...>
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Re: mach 4 and ess
One more time ----- on the Motors tab of the Configure Control panel you will see a list of motors on the right side.
You must click on the Motor0 text, not the check box, so that it highlights with
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Steve Stallings
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Re: mach 4 and ess
At this point I have just one problem. I want to prove that mach4 will work for me and maybe take the transition slowly since i have a few customizations that i really like.
When I try configure
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[email protected] <spencer@...>
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Re: help with customizations ?
John, I don't actually use my PC's for CNC, but I also don't use Cortana and X-box. Unfortunately, you can't uninstall them. At least not normally. I belive he's saying you can get rid of them using
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Bill in OKC too
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Re: mach 4 and ess
yes that is the problem settings being all over the place but i think i finally did figure out where everything is.
i have not set up hotkeys yet
my machine will run a gcode but i never got to set
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[email protected] <spencer@...>
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Re: help with customizations ?
The problem is I don't what I don't know and therefore don't know how to remove it.
So what's a library view?
What's a repeat drive displays via wow64
Don't use Cortana and xbox.
John
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John Dammeyer
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