Traumflug / Teacup_Firmware

Firmware for RepRap and other 3D printers
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ConfigTool first-time use is confusing or broken #300

Open phord opened 6 years ago

phord commented 6 years ago

Following the wiki instructions, on a fresh checkout of the code I start up ConfigTool. I load a Printer, then I load a Board.

Three weird things I noticed:

  1. The Printer is immediately marked as having "unsaved changes" (on the mechanical tab) if I load the mendel90 printer config.
  2. "Save Printer As..." is disabled, but "Save Board as..." is enabled.
  3. "Save config.h" is disabled. It's the one thing I need to get started, and it's not working. :-(

screenshot from 2018-07-06 10-24-48

In the screenshot I already had a config.h in my workdir but it's empty. The differences in config.h make big differences in the ConfigTool gui operation. Here's what I noticed.