first feedback

[mschorer]

Yay, looking good - i'll give it a whirl tonight.

my 5ct from first looks:

• love the offsets tab!
• jogging and feed-radios don't keep their setting and i get an infinite "you have to select them" loop
• is there a "home" button somewhere?
• connect/port settings can be moved from front-panel to settings panel - "connect on load" does the job for me - bring a dialog to front only when there's no port/no grbl
• what screen size is it designed for? scaling the app only works vertically.
• does it remember window position (+size)
• the jogging is very sensitive (with a mouse) - it's hard to move just 1 unit. will test repeat rates @ real hardware
• what's the idea behind "special positions"? tool changing position etc

[gerritv]

1. Thank you, if they are not visible people can't use them was my thinking
2. I did that on purpose but easy to change. The loop is not on purpose and I thought it was fixed. It might be related to the Jog repeat problem you mention below.
3. Home Cycle is shown only if Grbl has $22=1, otherwise there is no point and if you click it, Grbl will lock up trying to Home.
4. But that might not suit others. I will look at this again when MDI gets history etc and might need the space
5. 1170x768. I disabled width stretching at some point while re-jigging the GUI, will add it back in
6. No but I can add that although that can be irritating if you use a second monitor sometimes and not others. It might take some figuring out.
7. Jogging should respect the repeat rate set on Settings tab, what are you running under? This might also be the cause of the loop mentioned above, the Jog buttons use a timer to do the repeat. Default is 2.5/sec
8. Yes, they use G28/G30. More description is on the Overview page in wiki

[gerritv]

Closing this. I investigated remembering location etc and it seems a lot of effort. Might revisit once other enhancements are completed. Thank you for your inputs.