How to change default behavior of print button on Cura 13.06

[nsa666 0]

Hello,

Great Update. It is somehow possible to change the default print button behavior from "save GCode.." to "Print with USB.." like it was on 13.04?

 

[nsa666 0]

I looked at the code. There seems to be a problem with printer detection.

 

[Daid 306]

You can always do "right mouse button" -> "print with usb"

But if you think there is a problem somewhere, then some more information then "help, it's not working!" is better, as you know, that gives me something to work with. Else, I can only say "works for me"

 

[nsa666 0]

I am sorry. Accedentialy pressed the post button.

in function showPrintWindow (line 166)

 

if button == 1:
		if machineCom.machineIsConnected():
				printWindow.printFile(self._gcodeFilename)

the second if allways delivers false even if the printer is connected. I will look at detection code now.

 

[nsa666 0]

i think i found the bug.

in machineCom.py line 30:

 

try:
			key=_winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"HARDWARE\\DEVICEMAP\\SERIALCOMM")
			i=0
			while True:
				values = _winreg.EnumValue(key, i)
				if not forAutoDetect or 'USBSER' in values[0]:
					baselist+=[values[1]]
				i+=1
		except:

the reg key looks like:

The forAutoDetect is True and 'USBSER' is false. The list remains empty. The detection fails. Removing the "not" in front of forAutoDetect seems to help. but i don't know what side effects it has.

 

[Daid 306]

Are you using an Ultimaker?

 

[nsa666 0]

Unfortunatly no. I am using RepRapPro Huxley (Melzi-based).

Edit: I'm using Windows 8 and the printer is connected to COM9

 

[Daid 306]

Ah, look, there is the issue. The auto-detection-serial code assumes that you have an USB-serial device. Apparently Melzi electronics is using a different driver.

However, I knew this would happen. There is no real issue here, except that you manually need to configure the proper serial port in the preferences, then the auto-detection checks for that serial port instead of finding an USB-Serial device.

(Note, I have a plan to improve none-Ultimaker support. But I have to do that mostly in my free time. There are a lot of RepRap variations, and the first one I will look at will be the PrintrBot, as I can easy access one)

 

[nsa666 0]

manually configure port does not help in this case.

 

if platform.system() == "Windows":
		return port in serialList(True)

the serialList() return value remains empty. or should i change the True to False?

 

[Daid 306]

Ah, yes, fixing that now!

 

[nsa666 0]

Thank You. It works now. Great software.