LinuxCNC - Programming a Custom Machine

[Jerry Rutherford]

Well boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen... I figured out what I needed to do.

There are two main ways to go about a special panel design...

1) Glade Interface Builder - A Linux program that makes professional looking graphical interfaces.

2) pyVCP panels - You hand type pages of XML code, try it, make changes, and try it again.

I tried option #1... beat my head for two days getting Glade to install... then another learning it. I just could not figure out how to connect my pretty graphical buttons to where they would actually DO something useful. It looked like I was going to neen too learn PYTHON code... another language... in addition to G-Code and a new (Linux) operating system.

I decided to revisit the pyVCP option... more work on the interface section to be sure... but I do so much XML programming now for work... that it wasn't hard for me at all... I just had to learn the associated concepts of pin connections, etc.

Well... I figured it all out... I mean... HUGE leap forward... so much so that I wanted to document what i did so that others could benefit. (Including me in a couple of years when I forget it all and have to start over again.)

So... here are my findings, with pictures and a ZIP file if you want to put it on your LuinxCNC box and tinker with the code.
http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/22-pyvcp/28572-monster-a-learning-experience-pyvcp-machine#53186

Have fun... let me know if it is useful.

Jerry

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[David M]

Nice work Jerry, and thanks for the post!

Ironic that you still ended up using a python application (pyVCP) :)

I know what you mean about yet ANOTHER language, but it IS a great one, give it a try sometime!

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