I figured it was about time for me to make this program into something that I could actually use, so I began to put in all the controls I, as an end user, might need. I keep the 2D preview window, add a slew of buttons and combo boxes, a progress bar, and retain the text window for a log, and get this:
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| Why Qt Creator is amazing. Making this is a cinch. |
It's significantly more complex than last week's iteration, and will need a bit of work to debug. Then I'll plug in some hardware and see what happens.
Good news about using both the computer monitor and an external projector on the 3D printer itself - Qt makes managing displays extremely easy with a built-in library to do just that. This means that the only remaining part I need to look up are serial port controls. I'll get to it.
