Re: Re: EMC simulation, etc.

EMC users,

Among other things (DRO board for servoed steppers, port to Vigilant
board, etc.) I've been converting the xemc GUI to Tcl/Tk so that it's
easier to maintain and to do conversational programming. It's very much
easier than the X Toolkit programming that is used for xemc and I'm
sorry I didn't start with it.

Tcl/Tk gives file browsing, menu navigation with keyboards, radio
buttons and check boxes, etc. that everyone expects from a GUI.

If anyone has suggestions for a better layout, let me know. I'm
duplicating the basic look of the xemc but can easily change the layout.

I plan on writing conversational programming scripts for doing
form-fill-in or graphical assist of setting up common operations, like
tricky cutter compensation, pocket milling, etc.

If anyone has examples of these please let me know. I hope that we could
provide some and that EMC users would add theirs so that this would grow
over time. Tcl/Tk can be used in combination with "expect" to provide a
GUI on top of command like programs, so Jon Elson's C scripts could be
used directly, although I may rewrite these.

--Fred