Custom screens/Touchscreens

[Mario Soto]

Okay I will give it a try later today. I used Mach3 for 15 years and this software is new to me. Looks very good and the support on this forum is fantastic!
Thank you very much!

[dezsoe]

Hi Mario,

A quick workaround: you could place 2 fields somewhere on the screen, e.g. 20000 and 20001. Also, put two buttons there for move x and move y with buttonnumber 20000 and 20001. Then with notepad create two macros in the current macro folder:

M20000.txt

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exec.Code("G0 X"+AS3.Getfielddouble(20000).ToString());
while (exec.IsMoving());


and M20001.txt

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exec.Code("G0 Y"+AS3.Getfielddouble(20001).ToString());
while (exec.IsMoving());


Then enable the On-screen keyboard plugin to enter numbers to the fields and you are ready. I put on my to do list to make the osk plugin to be able to enter commands into the MDI field.

[Mario Soto]

A lot of great info here. There will be only one speed so F won't be an issue
If I used two macros I would still have to use a full-sized onscreen keyboard, no?

[dezsoe]

No. The on-screen keyboard I'm talking about is a plugin in UCCNC. Go to Configuration - General settings - Configure plugins, search for "On-Screen Keyboard", select Enabled, close window, restart UCCNC. Now if you click into a field (except MDI), a window will pop up and you can enter numbers (and expressions, but now it's irrelevant). Place the OSK window anywhere and it will remember its position.

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[Mario Soto]

I have edited script buttons in mach3 but never created them. How do I go about this in this software? I did not see any info in the manual.

[cncdrive]

Button numbers 20000 to 21999 are macro call buttons.
First edit the button and make it's buttonnumber property to the above mentioned number range. E.g. 20000.
Then create a macro in the profiles/macro_yourprofile folder, e.g. M20000.txt
Then when you will press the button it will call the macro with the same number, e.g. M20000.

[Mario Soto]

I'll give it a try. Thank you very much.

[dezsoe]

The screen editor is in Configuration / General settings / Edit screen. It's described in the UCCNC_usersmanual.pdf, chapter 7.

[Mario Soto]

Hello again,
Almost there.
I did create buttons that will place X1Y1 in the MDI text box.
But I can not get the actual movement. Using a keyboard and hitting ENTER works but using script buttons and hitting enter does nothing.
Any ideas?

[Dan911]

I have this code basically written and was simply cut/paste with editing for screen, maybe it will help and simplify it for you.

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1. Unzip file and put in your UCCNC plugin folder.
2. Start UCCNC and go to "configuration/plugin configure" find plugin and check enable.Restart.
3. Use a button you already created and change button number to 7111.

Hope it helps.

Dan