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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Load Gcode File not working in macro

« on: April 12, 2024, 08:27:20 AM »

incorrect...on so many levels that I needed to go and have a beer and stop laughing... Mach4 does what its designed for well.. that is to run a cnc machine.. you know.. 2 axis.. 3 axis.. maybe more.. when you push it into area's it was not specifically designed for, by yourself (without the Artsoft programming and tech support) , no matter how smart you believe yourself to be, you'll probably run into problems. So if you post that you wrote your own macro to connect Mach4 to your Apple phone via Bluetooth and then want to use a web browser to change tools, and also put a window up in Mach4 to use a camera or play songs with CarPlay, and your having problems and getting faults when you run your code, and obviously being one smart programmer, it must be Mach4 that's the problem, I shake my head and wonder why you even bother and waste so much of your time. and everyone else's who reads your post.  guess you have nothing better to do.. I do however so bye-bye

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Load Gcode File not working in macro

« on: April 11, 2024, 10:33:34 PM »

sounds like some SCI-FI movie... as mankind wrecks havoc on earth.. a beautiful chemist, a by the book army major, a  programmer with mommy issues and and three fun loving astronauts fly the most sophisticated spacecraft ever developed into the unknown with the hope of finding a new planet... on the way, the chemist finds that all the food contains a strange chemical that's turning all the crew psychotic.. while trying  to determine where the chemical is coming from she falls in love with astronaut #2... however astronaut#1 is secretly in love with her and kills astronaut#3 by accident... meanwhile the programmer is a 'plant' from the earths major corporations who don't want anything to upset the stranglehold they have on earths dwindling resources.. while attempting to reprogram the spacecrafts computer he allows the programming code to edit itself.. and in turn 'Big Bertha' becomes self aware and also determines that all life must be extinguished.. starting with the crew.. any chance that the chemist is able to stop the major (who is also mad).. save her love before astronaut#1 kills him.. get the programmer to program her apple watch 3000maxi to connect to the ships main computer and destroy its cpu before the ship fly's into the sun? and still have time to get into the escape pod? self editing G-Code.. now that's something I never thought of... maybe Mach4 can make the parts it needs to kill everyone in the shop and then on to the town.. the city... the state.. can the beautiful sheriff's deputy (who's in love with the plants general manager) stop Mach4.. save the town before the giant Mach4 'battle-bot' kills everyone? ok.. I'm laughing too hard now.. time to leave. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing Issues

« on: April 04, 2024, 09:23:14 PM »

if you are using Mach4 you need to discuss with the mfg of the motion board.. Mach4 does not actually control the homing procedure the motion card does. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with PMC logic

« on: March 13, 2024, 08:06:04 PM »

first off.. place One Shots before the latches and unlatches so that the code doesn't continually write to the output..I'll look at the rest of the code and see if I have any other suggestions. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: My mcode does not run when called from the Gcode/MDI window

« on: March 12, 2024, 05:52:29 PM »

calling from a button script is different.. search through the forum and you can find what you are looking for.. if the button isn't calling any actual G codes, or axis moves, you call it differently. There are lots of responses previously that you will be able to find. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: My mcode does not run when called from the Gcode/MDI window

« on: March 12, 2024, 10:47:01 AM »

I believe it is.. the macro itself should be lowercase.. the gcode and mdi doesn't make any difference. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: My mcode does not run when called from the Gcode/MDI window

« on: March 11, 2024, 09:34:50 PM »

works on my test machine.. I tried it as M150 and M500 and both seem to work exactly as you have it shown..

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: How do I fix an error that is preventing the screen from loading?

« on: March 10, 2024, 06:57:11 PM »

if you can't fix the error replace the wx4.set file in the screen sub-folder with the original file. That will put all the screen scripts back as they were when you installed. If you've made a lot of modifications they will of course be lost.. usually I save the last screen set file that worked when I start to make changes so if something doesn't work, and won't let Mach4 run, I can at least revert back to the last file that did. 

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Mach4 Toolbox / Re: how to get wxMessageBox to disappear with an input?

« on: March 10, 2024, 09:03:10 AM »

and while this would be beyond my really truly meager capabilities.. I guess you could somehow retrieve the message box instance itself (or its thread or whatever id or position in the Ether it holds) and kill that in code.. way past anything I would attempt myself. 

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Mach4 Toolbox / Re: how to get wxMessageBox to disappear with an input?

« on: March 09, 2024, 10:58:19 PM »

my mistake.. not sufficient coffee this morning... no.. I don't see any method to close a message box using an input.. why don't you simply write into the bottom message banner when the guard is open.. you can clear that from the plc script.. or put a box on the screen and then make it invisible. Or you could do something really crazed and try to stuff keystrokes into the keyboard buffer to clear the box.. now that would be something to post!!!