Another new screen - Mach Aqua

[ger21]

Now that I've learned how to use Photoshop for designing screens (thanks Andy), I'm redoing the screen I did a few months ago. But this one will look a lot better. I'm also going to build in some wizards, so they'll match, and be quickly accessible. This will be the first screen. Need to add a status bar and some jog controls.

[audioandy1762]

Originally Posted by ger21 Now that I've learned how to use Photoshop for designing screens (thanks Andy), I'm redoing the screen I did a few months ago. But this one will look a lot better. I'm also going to build in some wizards, so they'll match, and be quickly accessible. This will be the first screen. Need to add a status bar and some jog controls.

Looking good Gerry keep us posted on your progress.

Andy

[lovebugjunkie]

Gerry

Very nice screen. Clean layout and not “busy”.

[ger21]

Squeezed in the MDI and status bar.

[ger21]

1 Down, 8 to go.

[dertsap]

i was wondering how long it would take you to start playing with your new buttons
looks great

[ger21]

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[David Morrow]

Would you tell us a little more about where you learned to use Photoshop for designing screens ?

[ger21]

Andy was kind enough to create this tutorial that showed me how to make buttons that could be copied and edited, so that one button could be quickly duplicated to fill the screen.

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showpo...9&postcount=15

What I do is creat the entire screen in Photoshop, and then save it as a .png, and place transparent "buttons" over the background image, and add the DRO's and LED's as well. If you make the DRO backgrounds in Photoshop the same color as the DRO backgrounds in Screen4, they seemlessly overlay the background. You just need to turn off the DRO frames in Mach3's general config screen.

If you have any questions, let me know.

[ger21]

Here's a usable version for testing.

Unzip all the .png's to Mach3\bitmaps\R2\

Place Spindle OR LED.brn in Mach3\Brains\

Put R2.set in Mach3 folder.

Spindle Override
The brain is needed so the spindle override can match the FRO, because Mach didn't have a native spindle override LED. In order for it to work correctly, if you have no spindle, you may need to set a spindle speed in the initialization string, and set the pulley 1 max and min speeds.

I haven't gotten to the built in wizards yet, and they'll be a while. Also, the settings screen isn't done yet. Actually haven't started them yet. I think I have between 40-60 hours in this so far.

The goal is to provide most of Mach's features (that people use) in a clean and simplified interface. Feedback greatly appreciated.

[Switcher]

Ger21,


GREAT! job on the new Mach3 screen, very clean looking!

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Is Photoshop really $700 ?

Or are you working with an older free version/demo?


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[ger21]

A long time ago, I bought a $500 scanner that came with a copy of Photoshop for basically free. I think Photoshop was around $400 back then. Then got a couple upgrades.

Amazon has a few new copies of Photoshop CS2 for $170. That's what I'm using. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...2215364&sr=8-2