BtnCmd-DWC Plugin - Customise DWC - v01.03.05 20-09-24

cosmowave

@mintytrebor It fails during the plugin wizard. I have used the "upload system files feature".
I will try to re-install it today evening...

MintyTrebor

@cosmowave That's the second issue you have had with your setup trying to install plugins - you don't seem to be having much luck.

cosmowave

@mintytrebor Hahaha... you're right! But there are no big problems... so it's ok for me!

cosmowave

@mintytrebor Just for information: The uptade to 0.8.20 is ok now. I have deleted the 0.8.18 and then directly installed 0.8.20.

But a small problem remains.
In layout mode, when i like to edit a custom panel with a "right klick", the blue "edit buttons" are often behind the hole panel. So it is impossible to edit the panel.
These blue "edit buttons" should allways be on the top layer for visibility...

But once again: Thanks for this Plugin!!

MintyTrebor

@cosmowave Can you share a screenshot of it happening please.
Also:
What Browser?
What Screen Resolution?
What Device/OS?

Have you tried in a different browser?

Edit: Also does it still happen if you bring the panel to the front.

You state in "Layout Mode" - Custom Panels cannot be edited in layout mode only deleted, moved, resized, or moved to the top layer. You can only edit custom panels in "Create & Edit Custom Panels"

Custom Panel in Layout Mode:

Custom Panel in Create & Edit Custom Panels mode:

Can you clarify please?

cosmowave

@mintytrebor Browser: Firefox / Chrome both the same.
Res: 1920 x 1080
Intel Xeon CPU E3-1220 V2 @ 3.10GHz 3.10 GHz, Win 10 Pro

To bring the panel to the front has no effect on this problem.
The problem remains also in the "normal mode".

Here you can see a picture of normal view. The "info text" is behind the panel.

Here a picture in the layout mode. I have right clicked on the "home all" button (the button above home x/y... bad picture). The blue edit buttons are more or less completly covered by "it's own button"

The last picture is also from normal mode. The info text is behind the panel.

I think, info text and the blue edit buttons should always be showed on top layer.
I don't know, if this is configurable/programmable.

But the info text is not very important for me. Normally i know what my buttons make!

The blue edit buttons are more important. Now, when i like to edit a button, i have to move it outside of any panel or button to have acces to blue buttons.

MintyTrebor

@cosmowave Great. Thanks for coming back with the info requested.

The behaviour you are experiencing is not typical/normal. Normally the buttons and hover text are on top/in front of everything (and as you suggest they are already coded that way explicitly)

Now we have eliminated some of the variables (screen resolution etc) can you confirm the following for me:

In Global Setting can you make sure "enable selections in settings" is on:

Screenshot 2021-06-25 073149.png

Then in layout mode add a new button and edit its settings. Try and change the type. Does it look like this:

Or are the options missing?

cosmowave

@mintytrebor Thanks for answering.
When i remember me correctly, i have disabled the "Enable Selections in Setting". Because i had problems with the corresponding scrollable selection window. It was not scrollable with the mouse.

In layout mode, i think, the "button types" looks like in your picture. But i'm not 100% sure...

I will check it on my machine today evening.

MintyTrebor

@cosmowave If your memory is correct then I am afraid you are suffering from the known issue in the Release Notes. The fix is posted here (see the last post).

Its a local level issue with the installation of DWC, and the only solution we found was to essentially delete the whole www/dwc folder and re-install. We theorised its left over files/old versions of framework files from previous firmware/DWC upgrades. Its not a BtnCmd issue.

This actually makes some sense given you have had issues installing the plugin.

Can I also suggest you take some backups of your config files/macros etc, just for safety - these kind of local level installation issues make me nervous about the integrity of the sd card.

cosmowave

@mintytrebor Ok. Thanks for the clarification. I will try to delete/re-install the files.
Normally i make backups from time to time...

cosmowave

@mintytrebor You have written, that i have to delete the www/dwc folder.
You mean, that i have to take out my sd-card and delete the folder?

How do i write the new www folder on the sd-card? Normally , until now, i have used the zip files with system upload...

Sorry for the late reply, and sorry for this eventually "idiot-question"!

jay_s_uk

@cosmowave yes, take out the SD card and delete the www folder.
extract the contents of DuetWebControl-SD into a new www folder

cosmowave

@jay_s_uk Where can i find the "DuetWebControl-SD" File?
I only found "DuetWebControl-master.zip"

Again, sorry for that question! I'm a little bit desorientated in github. because i don't use it often...

jay_s_uk

@cosmowave https://github.com/Duet3D/DuetWebControl/releases/download/v3.3.0/DuetWebControl-SD.zip

cosmowave

@jay_s_uk Thank you very much for the link!

cosmowave

@mintytrebor I have deleted the www folder and then re-installed the dwc package.
Then i was able to install the latest BtnCmd Version. But the problem with the info text behind the panels remains.
For me, that is not a big problem. I will erase the info text of the buttons, because i do not really need them.
Thanks for your help and time...

jay_s_uk

@cosmowave very strange.
Can you also try removing dwc-settings.json?
it'll get recreated at boot

cosmowave

@jay_s_uk Deleting dwc-settings.json had also no effect. The hover-texts, and sometimes the blue edit buttons, are still behind the panels.
I have deleted my hover texts. For me it's ok, when we close this problem...

cosmowave

Is it possible to move tabs in layout or custom panel mode?

MintyTrebor

@cosmowave Use the clone tab feature - clone each tab in the order you want them to appear then delete the originals once you are happy.

I would take a backup first though

Edit: Be careful with this approach if you use it to re-order custom panels, it creates a new custom panel ID, which is used to embed them in normal layout tabs.

Now I'm wondering if I added any checks to prevent a custom panel deletion if it is use in a layout.. One to put on my list I think.