AXIS 1.1rc1 release

It's been a long time since the 1.0 release, and we've added a few more features and fixed a lot of bugs. We're now on the (short) road to a "1.1" release with the 1.1rc1 release. Unless a big problem comes up, we'll be releasing the real 1.1 in a week or so.

AXIS 1.1 is targeted to several flavors of emc:

• The cradek_stable branch of emc

• The HEAD of emc2

• The version of EMC maintained by Paul C. for BDI

Read on for a summary of some of the changes since 1.0.

Besides support for emc1.5 and emc2, the main new feature is support for G54 offsets with the "Zero Offset" button and Shift-Home keystroke shortcut.

Bugs fixed:

• Wait for EMC to signal it has completed certain commands. This reduces "bouncing" when changing the feed override slider, and fixes a bug which caused the first jog keystroke to be ignored sometimes.

• Make sure the window fits on an 800x600 screen with KDE toolbar (BDI)

• Remove several debugging messages

• Fix warnings when compiling the extension modules

• Fix the step increment combobox on certain window managers (twm, fluxbox)

• Make sure informational readouts are in sync with emc

• Use INI values for relative/absolute and commanded/actual coordinates

Note: 1.1rc1 is nearly identical to the version "1.0-20050918" version on BDI-4.29.
-- jepler
(originally posted on the AXIS blog)

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