#flex-dev Logs

Oct 18 2025

04:48 AM JT-Cave: morning
05:41 AM Tom_L: morning
05:44 AM JT-Cave: rpi5 says arriving tomorrow... usually that means they ship it to the wrong place
05:46 AM Tom_L: i think you'll be pleasantly surprised how it's improved
05:50 AM Tom_L: i'm thinking i may get a touch screen for one and fiddle with a gui for it
05:50 AM JT-Cave: cool
05:51 AM Tom_L: is it just the size of the widgets that you gotta consider or is there some touch feature to enable?
05:52 AM Tom_L: never owned a touch screen
05:52 AM JT-Cave: just need the widgets big enough for your finger and you need to enable in flex the popups for numbers etc
05:53 AM JT-Cave: I usually disable the mouse pointer as well
07:19 AM JT-Cave: I gave up trying to display the motion id label so a small update to flex
07:54 AM Tom_L: PR #374
07:56 AM Tom_L: changed the path... to the local examples?
07:57 AM Tom_L: yeah my builds are a mouse click now
07:58 AM JT-Cave: yes, I changed the path to the github local examples
08:00 AM Tom_L: pretty sure mine are up to date now
08:00 AM Tom_L: added the led example to flood/mist
08:00 AM JT-Cave: linuxcnc '/home/john/github/flexgui/examples/xyz/xyz.ini'
08:01 AM Tom_L: right
08:03 AM Tom_L: i have enough test icons already. i would get confused
08:04 AM Tom_L: unless maybe i could group them and get them to stay on the 2nd screen
08:08 AM Tom_L: i wonder if the led 'size' could use the button led 'size' (not position)
08:08 AM Tom_L: from the ini
08:08 AM Tom_L: i suppose there would be times you wouldn't want them the same size
08:11 AM Tom_L: or separate them.. LED_DIAMETER and BUTTON_LED_DIAMETER etc with color
08:12 AM Tom_L: not sure how that works with the dynamic properties
08:13 AM JT-Cave: I assume you're talking about the HAL LED vs the button LED
08:13 AM Tom_L: yeah
08:13 AM JT-Cave: and we could have ini entries for HAL_LED_OFF_COLOR and HAL_LED_ON_COLOR
08:14 AM Tom_L: or add a diameter dynamic property
08:14 AM JT-Cave: the size is the minimum width or height of the label
08:14 AM Tom_L: ahh
08:16 AM JT-Cave: it might be possible to have a diameter smaller than the label
08:16 AM Tom_L: i don't see the min in the qlabel properties
08:17 AM Tom_L: unless i'm missing it
08:17 AM JT-Cave: size is in the QWidget section of a QLabel in designer
08:18 AM Tom_L: there it is... it was colapsed
08:18 AM Tom_L: you could mention that i the docs..
08:18 AM Tom_L: i had no idea
08:19 AM Tom_L: makes sense though
08:19 AM Tom_L: right now both are 0
08:19 AM Tom_L: (default)
08:23 AM JT-Cave: looks like hal led needs some attention, if you set the min height and width the led is square if it gets resized
08:24 AM JT-Cave: looks like the horz and vert spacer screw it up
08:26 AM Tom_L: i noticed something odd
09:26 AM JT-Cave: right now to get the led size you want you must set min and max to the same value and set to fixed
09:27 AM JT-Cave: I think a nap is called for after dayquill and pepto
09:35 AM Tom_L: feelin bad ehh
11:46 AM JT-Cave: little nap to rest up a bit
09:02 PM Tom_L: JT-Cave, file menu -> recent doesn't seem to keep the list of opened files
09:14 PM Tom_L: haven't changed the menu in ages but just noticed the recent's list not there