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Mach Discussion => Mach Screens => Screen designer tips and tutorials => Topic started by: madeintheshed on July 25, 2014, 09:27:52 PM

Title: Assign a buuton number
Post by: madeintheshed on July 25, 2014, 09:27:52 PM

Hi,
Is there a way to assign a number to a button created in Screen4? Like an OEM number.
I have created a button to turn single block on and another to turn single block off. Each of these 2 buttons have a script assigned to them from within Mach3 and are working as expected when mouse clicking. What I would like to be able to do is call that button from a plugin (pokeys). Pokeys has the ability to call the button number (Ive chosen 1500 and 1501), but I cant work out how to give it a number and be able to assign a script to it.

Title: Re: Assign a buuton number
Post by: ger21 on July 26, 2014, 07:30:30 AM

Did you try selecting OEM Function Code and typing in the number you want?

That's how you create User LED's and DRO's so I'm guessing it would work for buttons as well?

Title: Re: Assign a buuton number
Post by: madeintheshed on July 27, 2014, 05:01:05 AM

Hi Gerry,
Yes I did that, set 2 my buttons in Screen4 with "OEM Numbers" 1920and 1921, and Mach did not respond.
To check Pokeys was sending data, I changed Pokeys to be sending OEM LED instead, set to 1920. I then created LED 1920 in screen4 and it responded to the pokeys input.
Pity I cant write to OEM LED's 65, 66, 82 that would solve all my problems!

Jon

Title: Re: Assign a buuton number
Post by: ger21 on July 27, 2014, 07:32:30 AM

I looked at the Pokeys manual. Can you not map LED's 65,66 and 82?

Title: Re: Assign a buuton number
Post by: madeintheshed on July 27, 2014, 06:37:54 PM

Hi Gerry, That is my problem. I cant map to those LED's Mach3 seems to ignore them. I have heard/read somehwere that you cant wite to some OEM LEDS for some reason. Not sure if that is true tho, but it seems like it is.
I might see if I can verify this by changing the script on my dedicated on/off buttons to write to the LED.