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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Module Works Simulator

« on: June 02, 2017, 11:08:41 AM »

I have not. I don't have any W7 machines anymore.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Need some minor LUA adjustments...

« on: June 02, 2017, 09:33:36 AM »

Hi. I was allso wondring about the RC word... What does it mean?
And how exactly do I make a external button to set an output without going back to previous state when using momentary buttons? I tought I knew, but still dont.
When a momentary button are pressed it changes state, but it does it again on release... This is probably a dumb question...
I tought I got control of my buttons until yesterday whan I found out that things dont work...

Things work just fine as screen buttons, but not as pokeys unput buttons...

Daz... Please. You know all about this, dont you

An tutorial video for dummies during setup of Pokeys buttons would be just awesome )

Lots of ways you can do buttons, inputs, etc..

Regular button ..... is a momentary. It goes down when clicked and back up when released. Toggle: one press or state change sets the state of something, another press sets another state, another press........ etc.

First find out what state your in then do what ever you want on the next press/state change. For an on screen button do it in the buttons clicked script, for an input button use the sig lib (signal script) in the screen load script. If you want an on screen button and an input button to do the same thing create a function and call it from the on screen button and sig lib. If want a custom m code to do the same thing roll that function into a module and call if from onscreen buttons, input buttons and/or m codes.

Toggle Button....... is a two state button. It has an up and down state that are maintained until the next click. The up state script and properties are what you want the button to do, look like and say when in the up state. Same for down.

You can do any of teh above with dwell by using a timer as Daz has already done such a good job showing.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Need some minor LUA adjustments...

« on: June 02, 2017, 09:15:15 AM »

Hi Chaoticone, thanks for the encouragement, it was of course your fault that I discovered the simplicity of using the standard switch as momentary.  Lesson there was, don’t assume without trying.

Other lesson, be more precise when asking questions.  I led DazTheGas off on a tangent looking for the switch to have a time delay, because that is what I asked for.  He is a good man hey.  Still I ended up using his idea in the Macros for M3, M4 and M5.  So all good.  And learned about the wx.timer along the way.

Now there you go mentioning something that I now need to know about.   Kind of like saying to a child, “did you know about the free ice cream?”  As if they are going to let that go.

Error checking??  Has that something to do with the rc.____  I see it a lot?  I worked out the “rc” must be Return Code, but return from what?

Thanks  Chaoticone, off to hit my head against another brick wall.

Craig.

Yup, rc = return code. It is used for Machs built in error checking and returned from the core (which is the wizard behind the curtain, manages all things Mach) the best I understand. I think all of the api calls have the various possibilities for each call listed in the API help file. The more you learn/understand about Machs lua the better the help file is. It really is good.

Here is a link you might find helpful.
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,32263.msg224557.html#msg224557

And an attachment.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Need some minor LUA adjustments...

« on: June 01, 2017, 08:48:11 AM »

Nice! I knew you would get it. 

You could use the return calls to do some error checking to make it a little more robust but what you have should work just fine.

I love seeing folks grow.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Module Works Simulator

« on: May 31, 2017, 06:02:16 PM »

Are you running the latest version of Mach4?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 6 axis screen set

« on: May 30, 2017, 05:53:11 PM »

Yes, wx6. It has been included with the hobby installer for a while now.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Reference all axes (Home) on a machine without limit switches

« on: May 30, 2017, 10:08:14 AM »

Home in place should work. Make sure you do not have any axis enabled that you do not have Home in Place enabled for. Also, make sure your looking at machine coordinates and not work coordinates. Referencing does not change work offsets, only the positions work offsets are relative to.

Might want to start with a single axis. Get one axis doing as it should then add the next.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: change the mother board to a Mach4

« on: May 30, 2017, 10:00:01 AM »

I highly recommend you read our FAQs page. It's a pretty short read and has lots of good information. You may find the "Where do I start? Are there Steps?" FAQ in particular very helpful.

http://www.machsupport.com/help-learning/f-a-q/

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Mach4 Videos / Re: Mach4 Quicky #8 - Updating Custom WX4`s

« on: May 28, 2017, 09:23:36 AM »

Nice Daz!

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: 13 Amp plug - easy removal tool.

« on: May 28, 2017, 09:22:40 AM »

Yes, well I bet they call you side pocket in the Netherlands too then.