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start AXIS maximized

Regards,
Alex

alex_joni wrote:
Hello...
Select windows when the mouse moves over them works for jogging. But when I like to execute homing, touch off or others the camera window goes into back. Not realy what I want. And other windows comes up where not nedd to be. (date for example)

For starting maximized I think there should be some other way. I don't like to install new application just po push maximize button. There are probabli some vay to do inside source with few lines of code. Probably can be configured in *.ini too. (eg START_MAXIMIZED=1).

Today I just discover that I don't need to recompile EMC just for changing AXIS. So seems that I go to learn python and make some mess inside AXIS

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.3/html/gui_axis.html#r1_4

Regards,
Alex

Wow, great work eslavko!
Looks like something I could really use. Can you give some more details on how to implement this?

Thanks,
Greg

Nothing special here.

Just download gqcam from web to check if work with you cam. (you can install with package manager in ubuntu).
If that work's then you make next step.
Uninstal gqcam...
Get source from the web (sourceforge)
Compile itself.
Test if works.
That's all.

Of course if you can live with all that sliders under camera window.
If you don't like it then ask me for modified source (or modify yourself).
As I "cripled source" I don't want to upload in the form as is.
I' plan to port that into python and make as a module for the axis. (As I want to ba all in one window).

Don't expect to be done fast!. I didn't write even "hello world" in the python! (I write that in C and not much more )
... and tcl is needed too.

I just wander why so much language is used to make EMC2 ussable. C, CC, GTK/TK, Python, probably some more and just not discover that.

Slavko-
I have finally gotten a webcam (logitech c260) which works well with Cheese but with gqcam I only get a solid green image. So it looks as though I will have to try and modify the Cheese source to get the crosshair overlay. Could you share your modified source for gqcam so I can get an idea of how to do this?

Thanks,
Greg