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--Button Script
email('Hello from a Mach4 machine') --This calls the email function and passes it a message.
--Screen Load Script
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-- Email added 8-30-2016
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--Helpful link http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/smtp.html
function email(message)
package.path = package.path .. ';./Modules/?.lua;'
package.cpath = package.cpath .. ';./Modules/?.dll;'
-- load the smtp support
local smtp = require('/socket.smtp')
from = '<fromname@hostname.net>' --email address of sender
rcpt = {
'<toname1@hostname.net>', --email address of recipient
'<toname2@hostname.net>', --email address of carbon copied recipient
'<toname3@hostname.net>' --email address of blind carbon copied recipient. They will be blind because we will not list them in the header
}
mesgt = {
headers = {
from = 'From Name <fromname@hostname.net>', --name and email address of sender. Example: 'John Doe <originaljdoe@anyhost.net>'
to = 'To Name <toname1@hostname.net>', --name and email address of recipient
cc = 'To Name <toname2@hostname.net>', --name and email address of someone being carbon copied
subject = 'Mail from a Mach4 machine' --email subject
},
body = tostring(message)
}
r, e = smtp.send{
from = from,
rcpt = rcpt,
source = smtp.message(mesgt),
server = 'mail.myhost.net', --this is the address or IP of the mail server used to send this email. smtp.gmail.com is one example
password = 'MailServerPassword', --this is the password you use to access the mail server you are sending from
user = 'myname@myhost.net' --this is the user name you use to access the mail server you are sending from
}
if (r == 1) then --Message was sent successfully
wx.wxMessageBox('Message was sent successfully.')
else --There was an error
wx.wxMessageBox('!!!ERROR!!!\n\n' .. tostring(e))
end
end
Daz and Jo are having that discussion on another thread currently, but you may already know that, and hence your last post.
Chaoticone, just as a side topic. You guys all seem to have quite a grasp of how to read, interpret and write the Lua code. Of course I am a bit bias, but I don't think I am all that slow, but after having done a few hours of sitting and plodding through online Lua tutorials as well as reading the Mach scripting stuff etc., until my eyes go fuzzy, most of it still eludes me.
Did you start off that way, or did you have some background in programming which helped?
I had no background in coding or scripting other than doing some in cypress enable in Mach3. It took me a while to get my head around the few things I think I understand now. For me it boils down to shear determination when it comes to coding. I also have some great mentors that give me a bump when I get stuck. Most all of them are here on the forum. A few other things I consider advantages though are I worked on CNC's for 25 years and all sorts of mechanical, wiring, electronics, and processor based controls for many more years. That helps a lot in knowing how I want things to work. I just have to throw myself into the script until I get it to do that. So yes, lua has been a steep learning curve to me but it really is powerful and many times more powerful than the scripting we had in Mach3. This means we can do things in 4 not possible in 3. 
Hi Craig,
I'm a newbie at LUA coding. I have programmed before in FORTRAN as a student and in more recent years VB and C,
also like to think I'm pretty fair in assembler. LUA has been a bit of a challenge, while it is deceptively simple its power
and flexibility is right up there.
When coding I have
https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html permanently on the taskbar.
Much of the code that we are trying to produce involves manipulating Mach4 and consequently the Mach 4 API.chm is also
on the taskbar.
The other resource are the existing LUA scripts within Mach4 and LUA Examples in the Mach4Hobby directory, often you can cut
and paste or otherwise adapt examples to your needs.
Craig