UGS platform disabling command input during machine activity.

[J-Dunn]

UGS platform disabling command input during machine activity. If I send a command, eg, g0X200 , the command input area become inactive and greyed out until the machine becomes at the end of movement.

This is HIGHLY disruptive to work flow in direct command control.

If I have some simple machine operations to do , either for set up or a simple face milling operation, I will usually type the next command while the machine is executing and then just hit Enter when done of send several lines during one long cut. This means the machine time is not lost while I laboriously type and check my commands. Forcing me to wait for machine idle state before I can even BEGIN typing the next command makes the whole process about 3 or 4 times longer than necessary.

Describe the solution you'd like The command input control should remain in an active state as it did with UGS Classic.

Describe alternatives you've considered Using Classic would be preferable if only for this . Sadly it crashes on start up with more recent java versions, as reported here in bug reports.

I have tried enable/disable polling option, this does not seem to affect this behaviour.

Version seen using nightly 02/12/20

Hardware GRBL 0.8j

Operating system (please complete the following information): Fedora 34