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I am pleased to announce the second Release Candidate version of AXIS
(1.2rc2). Compared to the last release candidate, it has several small changes
and a change required by changes in the HEAD version of emc2. AXIS 1.2rc2
supports emc1, bdi4emc, and emc2, and is available in six different languages.
The AXIS developers are eager to receive help with additional translations, as
well as updates to existing translations, success stories, or bug
reports. The best place to discuss AXIS is the emc-users mailing list.
Files currently attached to this page:
Changes since 1.2rc1
- AXIS builds properly against emc2 HEAD
- The German translation has been updated (thanks to Florian Hahn)
- The Manual/MDI tabs now expand to show all text (this affected the Italian translation)
Changes since 1.2a2
- The backplot colors have been improved.
- AXIS builds properly on bdi4 machines using emc1.
- The perspective view is correctly centered, even when a line of code is selected.
- The jog distance selector (continuous/0.1/etc) is sized appropriately and works correctly for non-english translations.
- The layout of several other buttons is improved for non-english translations.
- The Brazilian Portuguese translation is now installed in the correct location.
- The version of EMC2 will be displayed in the Help > About screen.
- AXIS uses RS274NGC_STARTUP_CODE in the same way as emc. Before this, AXIS and emc could give different results for files that depended on the startup code.
- Pressing Alt-V only opens the View menu, instead of opening the menu and changing the selected view.
- The Hal Configuration GUI can now be launched from the Edit menu
Changes since 1.2a1
- A portuguese translation has been contributed by Daniel Scheeren
- In emc2, the backplot is now colored according to the ongoing movement type. Rapid moves are green, straight feeds are red (as before), and arcs are magenta.
- AXIS can now be built against an installed version of emc2. This can be
autodetected, or forced with the environment variable EMC_RUN_INSTALLED.
- AXIS can now skip installing its own version of bwidget, and use the system version. If your operating has an appropriate version of bwidget available, install it and set the environment variable USE_SYSTEM_BWIDGET to a non-empty value
- Support for 'simpleinstall' has been withdrawn. This feature was created to support users of bdi 4.xx. Now that instructions to rebuild the version of emc on bdi4 are on the emc wiki, this is no longer necessary. Note: this does not mean we're not supporting bdi4; it means that a kludge to support it is no longer needed. AXIS 1.2 supports bdi4.
Changes since 1.1
- Internationalization: AXIS can now be translated into any language supported by Tk.
- All bugfixes in AXIS 1.1.1 and 1.1.2.
- Progress bar while loading programs is improved.
- The 'Pause' and 'Stop' menu items now work correctly, even when the program being run has lots of very short moves.
- When installing AXIS, files are always overwritten (similar to setup.py install --force)
Entry first conceived on 28 February 2006, 1:11 UTC, last modified on 9 March 2006, 22:45 UTC
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