Detect button pressed

[freeze-tec]

Hi to all of you,

Is it possible with VB to detect whether or not a button is pressed?
I am writing a routine for manual parting on my lathe

What I want it to do is the following:

When I press the arrow up key the parting move starts (at feedrate in the -X direction)
This should go on as long as I keep the arrow up key pressed

When I release the arrow up key, the parting move should stop, and backoff a little bit (to clear the workpiece)
How can I detect if the arrow up key is depressed in VB?
(I cannot find anything on this topic on the forum)

Any help is appreciated

Jan

[poppabear]

In VB (in Mach) you can do it indirectly by watching what the button is controlling and when that LED or DRO changes state or hits some value, you can then take other action.

For what you want to do directly, you will have to do it in FLASH. In Flash you can look at button states and take actions depending on that state.

scott