Because these two pins have no presence in Configtool's GUI, they
got dropped when writing a board config file. These pins are
needed for Gen3 Extruder Board support.
This should solve issue #179.
Teach configtool to save ini, board and printer files with the
--save commandline switch. Add a feature to Printer and Board
to let us pass None for the "values" to save; this causes the
class to save the previously loaded settings instead of taking
new settings in the argument.
Also add --quit switch to tell commandline not to continue to run the
GUI. There's not much point in running the gui after many of these
switches, but that will change in the future. Add this --quit option
to quit early so we can begin to use this new mode for test validation.
Instead of passing myriad variables around in arguments to
classes and functions, put the global settings like "verbose" and
"cmdFolder" in the Settings object and pass that in to the top.
Move model functionality out of printerpanel.py into a new class,
Printer, so we can more easily add commandline driven tests in
the future and to help identify code reuse opportunities.
New boolean options were all enabled, which was a problem
especially with the boolean choices DISPLAY_BUS_xxx and
DISPLAY_TYPE_xxx: all choice entries were set to True, so display
code was not only enabled behind the users back, but also set to
an arbitrary value (depending on the Python implementation).
Previously, #defines requiring a value, but configured as boolean,
broke GUI code. While Configtool its self should never write such
broken #defines, they can happen with manual config file edits.
IMHO it's fine to do such repair attempts as long as it doesn't
hobble other functionality. Whatever was broken at read time will
end up disabled at write time, unless the user changes that value
in the GUI.
This is done by parsing values from the generic config before
parsing those in the user config. Values existing in the user
config overwrite those in the generic config; values not
existing there stay at the value in the generic config.
Previously, only boolean #defines were handled properly (and
by code somewhere else). Missing #defines with value were
written as boolean #define, making the file unparseable on
the next read.
We can't magically find out what the right pin is, but we can at
least make sure it gets written with valid syntax next time. This
also ensures pins can be handled in the GUI, avoiding failures
like the one reported by inline comments here:
b9fe0a5dd0
Some target devices need extra avrdude command line switches to
get them to upload successfully. There are dozens of options which
may be useful to different people. Instead of breaking all the possible
options out into separate fields, provide a generic "Program Flags" text
field which the user can fill in similar to the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
settings.
The Arduino Mega2560 bootloader was changed[1] to report an error when
asked to erase flash because it has never actually implemented erasing
flash. To program this bootloader with avrdude requires the -D switch
to avoid flash erase. But it seems that every arduino will work fine
with -D, as evidenced by the fact that the Arduino IDE always [2]
includes -D in the avrdude commandline. Presumably the flash is erased
during/before programming anyway and the separate erase step is unneeded.
Perhaps the -D should be always added to avrdude command line in
configtool and in Makefile-AVR. But I haven't tested any other boards
yet, and I'm being more cautious even though the Arduino IDE does
otherwise.
[1] arduino/Arduino#543
[2] d8e5997328/app/src/processing/app/debug/AvrdudeUploader.java (L168)
So far for choices based on boolean sets, only, because choices
for values typically need no more readable names.
This elegantly removes the somewhat ugly check for '(', too.
Having a choice with a defined set of options is nice, but it
also requires these options to be #defined somewhere _before_
entering config.h. To keep class-like encapsulation, we'd need
two header files for each code unit, one for the options, another
one for the usual header.
That said, we use other examples of such options, e.g. CPU, F_CPU
or KINEMATICS. For CPU and F_CPU it works fine, because their
options are numbers or other values known by the compiler. For
KINEMATICS it kind of works, because this #define is used in only
one place ... and there it's suboptimal already, because no option-
set.
Anyways, I was unsure about this change and if it turns out to be
a poor decision later, it can be reverted.
Most work by Ruslan Popov, collected from various commits and
made compatible with regression tests by Traumflug.
Display test code is now enabled by #defining DISPLAY_BUS to
i2c_twi.
Save a division at runtime by pre-calculating the slope between each
pair of adjacent thermistortable values. Since we use the larger value
each time, save the slope between two values A and B in the table
with the B data. Therefore the slope is that between each value and
its predecessor in the list.
Store this new value in the third element of the now 3-integers-wide
array which makes up the table. Use fixed-point 6.10 format to store
the slope. This is almost too narrow for some slopes and maybe it
should be changed to 8.8 fixed-point. In practice this presents a
loss in accuracy, but it is still significantly better than the
previous fixed-sample-size table production method. In particular no
provision is made to handle values which scale over 65535, and it
seems we should at least warn about this if not simply fail before
letting the user go off compiling his code.
Add a new flag TEMPTABLE_FORMAT and define it as 1 to tell the code
that we are using this new and incompatible format. This lets us
tolerate old hand-crafted thermistor tables by keeping the slower
algorithm in case one is still used. New thermistor tables should be
defined with this new format and with the FORMAT define set accordingly.
With the default 25 samples this adds 100 bytes to the flash image for
the thermistortable storage for two different thermistors. But the
code is simplified and saves me 134 bytes in the bargain for a net
decrease in flash size of 34 bytes.
The Thermistortablefile.py routine prematurely drops the
fractional part of the temperature when computing the 14.2
temperature values to emit in the code. Keep this instead until
the last moment when we finally calculate the integer format we
will store.
Temperature tables are emitted by selecting arbitrary sample values
to be used for the linear lookup table. This is fine in the range
where the thermistor produces linear output, but it is markedly wrong
near the extremes where the thermister output begins to curve.
Introduce a new sample selector which chooses samples based on the "most
incorrect estimate" and improves from there to ensure we get a cleaner
approximation across the selected range.
Traumflug: this topic is tracked here:
https://github.com/Traumflug/Teacup_Firmware/pull/208
Until this commit, the Z axis is disabled after each move and
only enabled when the Z axis will move. Now you can enable this
as a feature. Some printer axes are too heavy or have a high
pitch which are not self locking. In that case simply do nothing.
It's now off by default.
Implemented and tested for both platforms. This is quite a big
commit. Unlike with the previous changes to now choosable PWM
frequencies, all board configuration files and Configtool had
to be changed immediately to deal with the additional parameter
in DEFINE_HEATER() and keep AVR builds working (and regression
tests passing).
This was forgotten with the recent move to storing configuration
items as tuples (value, enabled). It should fix the refusal to
build reported in issue #86.