#flex-dev Logs

Nov 17 2025

04:24 AM Tom_L: morning
05:10 AM JT-Cave: morning
05:31 AM lcnc-relay: <AllAboutJake@> 👋
05:43 AM lcnc-relay: <AllAboutJake@> Nuance that you need a pressed style or a different set of blink styles from the base style. Otherwise you could click and it seems like nothing happens because you clicked just after a blink transition and have to wait for the next blink before seeing it take effect in the UI
07:18 AM * Tom_L considers a whitworth config next
07:18 AM * Tom_L is done considering
07:19 AM Tom_L: 59F 72F
07:23 AM rdtsc-w: 5.6568Bananas^2
08:00 AM Tom_L: PR #408
08:00 AM Tom_L: later...
01:01 PM lcnc-relay: <AllAboutJake@> added "integer_digits" dynamic property to labels and lcd widgets. setting to 2 insures leading zero padding:
01:01 PM lcnc-relay: <AllAboutJake@> https://jauriarts.org/_heisenbridge/media/jauriarts.org/wbwuwDxJutdtFUgfwWVxAttD/YadhKCV-J6Q/image.png
02:06 PM lcnc-relay: <AllAboutJake@> question: these velocity labels, ona. metric machine are they in mm/min?
02:06 PM lcnc-relay: <AllAboutJake@> https://jauriarts.org/_heisenbridge/media/jauriarts.org/LsbujgpFfsbuDnkggpZbNhmK/AQ8xo49mZYI/image.png
02:59 PM lcnc-relay: <alex.w#18266@> How mature is flex? Would you recommend it if someone has a working and pretty stable qtvcp setup, but doesn't like the overhead to making changes to it?
03:13 PM lcnc-relay: <Tom_Cell@> Yup
03:15 PM JT-Shop: flex is the third generation, started feb 24, has 4k commits so it's had a birthday
03:15 PM JT-Shop: sorry 3k commits
03:15 PM JT-Shop: and 41 releases
03:16 PM lcnc-relay: <Tom_Cell@> I've made at least two working user interfaces
03:19 PM lcnc-relay: <Tom_Cell@> Any issues that come up are usually fixed within a day or two
03:19 PM lcnc-relay: <Tom_Cell@> But there haven't been many lately
04:04 PM lcnc-relay: <alex.w#18266@> great, thanks. It looks interesting, I'll give it a go
04:19 PM JT-Shop: jake the emc manual says velocity (returns float) - current velocity.
04:19 PM JT-Shop: while it does not specify I "assume" it's machine units
04:21 PM JT-Shop: velocity of each joint
04:22 PM JT-Shop: alex there are some video tutorials on my putube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Gnipsel/playlists
04:53 PM Tom_L: JT-Shop, were you gonna add probe enable to the checkable list?
04:54 PM JT-Shop: yup, just waiting for the dust to settle
04:54 PM Tom_L: i started commenting those out in the ini and realized it wasn't done yet
05:06 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> well, a cloudy, wet, drizzley day here.....
05:06 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> low 50's
05:06 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> boring as tears
05:07 PM JT-Shop: it's not dusty what are you complaining for
05:08 PM Tom_L: ya could be chewing dust instead of gum
05:09 PM lcnc-relay: <AllAboutJake@> two tiny enhancements https://github.com/jethornton/flexgui/pull/409
05:09 PM JT-Shop: if you live on a dead end dirt road off a road rain is important
05:11 PM JT-Shop: I'll look in the morning