GladeVCP(9)

💖 NAME 💖

gladevcp — displays Virtual control Panels built with GTK / GLADE ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

loadusr gladevcp  [-c componentname0xN] [-g WxH+Xoffset+Yoffset0xN] [-H
halcmdfile] [-x windowid] gladefile.glade

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so bestie, picture this: GladeVCP rolls up, reads a glade file, and displays the widgets in a window. iconic behavior. 💅

then it calls gladevcp_makepins, which again parses the gladefile — yes, twice, she's thorough — hunting for specific HAL widgets. once she finds them she makes HAL pins and sets up updating for them. that's the whole bit. no cap. 🔥

the HAL component name defaults to the basename of the glade file. lowkey elegant.

now the options, because you KNOW we're getting into them:

• -x — directs GladeVCP to reparent itself under this X window id instead of creating its own toplevel window. it's giving "I live here now, rent free" 🫶
• -H — passes an input file for halcmd to be run after the GladeVCP component is initialized. this is used in Axis when running GladeVCP under a tab with the EMBED_TAB_NAME/EMBED_TAB_COMMAND INI file feature. iykyk 💜

and some tea on file formats: GladeVCP supports GtkBuilder or libglade files, though some widgets are not fully supported in GtkBuilder yet. so like. just so you know going in. 🙈

💀 ISSUES 💀

for now, system links need to be added in the glade library folders to point to our new widgets and catalog files. look in lib/python/gladevcp/READ_ME for details. it's giving manual labor but it's fine, we ball. 😭

✨ bestie this page is from the LinuxCNC Documentation, dated 2010-08-24, and it lives in section 9 as GladeVCP(9) — slay, go build something cute 💖🎀🌈