mice in the control was Re: Text file description of GUI - controller uploaded

Chris,

My sentiments exactly. "mousing" around as you're trying to recover
from a bad situation is NOT "a good thing"... And if you've
been "trained" to use the mouse, you won't know where the keys are!

A mouse has its' place, but the critical controls of a cnc machine is
not one of them, IMO. There'sa reason the "commercial controls don't
use mice (and have fixed postions for critical functions)


Ballendo (m-i-c...k-e-y... )

P.S. Re: your last two lines below.
Looks like open source COULD lead to "open sores"<G>

P.P.S. At the very minimum, a "mousable" control should put "focus"
on an appropriate "button" during operation;i.e., feedhold, estop.
Even better, it should ALSO enable an easily "hit" key, like ESC, or
the spacebar, or "any key"...

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., ccs@m... wrote:
>Personally, I do not believe on-screen controls have any place in a
>machine that does not have a touchscreen - the last thing I want to
>do is look for the mouse when I need to hit something quickly. I'd
>rather do everything with the keyboard. This is preferable even to a
>touchscreen in my view since you don't have to look at a keyboard
>once you get familiar with it.

>But an open source control program lets anyone who wants to take the
>time (I have yet to need to badly enough) change anything they want.
>
> Chris Stratton