So, I was hoping I was just imagining things when I thought I saw the “Send to Lan Printer” dialog reset my choice in filament device but unfortunately and fortunately I witnessed it for myself tonight when a print fired off using the wrong CFS slot. So basically it took longer than the refresh timer to upload and decompress, so it refreshed the dialog box in an effort to I’m guessing repopulate the possible options for a CFS slot or spool holder. Well, it defaults to CFS slot 1, and I had explicitly chosen slot 2 before hitting ‘Start Print’. I watched it refresh and just as it was decompressing, set the option to CFS 2A. They really should remove this refresh. This is the equivalent to when web pages used to use a meta refresh and your form data would be wiped and why UI tech has surpassed that stoned-age era approach. If someone had clicked “Start Print” and left thinking they were coming back to a huge print being done later on only to find the wrong filament used or worse, spaghetti because of incorrect settings used for the wrong slot - it would be ugly.
Hello Kris_Bee,
I personally think Creality should ditch working on the software side of things (CP 6xxx, etc) and use those resources on the firmware (their printers).
It would be a much safer experience to bundle Orca with their printers as the team that work on Orca are far better at slicer software.
Cheers.
I agree with that. I have yet to compare to see if the ‘tooltip’ on hover is as literal as the param for many of these within creality print lol. e.g.: the param would be “Enable a good time” and a checkbox and you hover over it expecting elaboration and you get instead “Enable a good time”
Just an update: this is still happening and it’s literally a race to click buttons and hope you were on time before it screws you, and then be on time once again to abort the print in the device pane (if you’re lucky enough that it actually honors it). Coding with Qt for a bit myself, this is such a hammer solution to a screwdriver issue and shameful on creality’s part.