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Works in progress / Re: One More All-In-One Milling Screen

« on: February 27, 2009, 10:35:59 PM »

Gerry,

You've just solved one problem for me!  I did not have the .set file in the MAch3 directory - didn't know you HAD to!  You can open a .set file located anywhere, but if you modify it in Mach3, by, for instance, editing a button script, it will silently write a NEW one to the Mach3 directory, and THAT is the one it'll load next time you start up.  Needless to say, that's really bad practice to do something like that with no notice to the user.  So, I'll move mine to the MAch3 directory, and I expect that will solve several of my problems.

Thanks!  That one was driving me nuts!

Regards,
Ray L.

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Works in progress / Re: Scream4 Crashing!!

« on: February 27, 2009, 10:12:42 PM »

Ray, did you assign those buttons oem code 1-100? These are for pages and just wondering if they are takeing you to a blank page. When it does this, do you have the tool bar at the top of the page still? If so you can choose the page number from the drop down.

Brett

Brett,

I'm not sure anyone what I had done there, but I found a way to delete the buttons, so I'm past that headache, and onto the next one.  How on earth would one know about that problem?  I'm using a speadsheet containing the OEM codes.  Sounds like some are OK to use, some are not under different circumstances?

Regards,
Ray L.

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Works in progress / Re: One More All-In-One Milling Screen

« on: February 27, 2009, 09:57:34 PM »

Not what you want to hear, but I've used it for probably 50-70 hours in the last year and have never had it crash. good luck

There is some interaction between Mach3 and Scream4 that I am just not getting.  I closed Scream4, started Mach, loaded my screenset, and put the spindle control scripts into their buttons for about the 10th time.  Worked find.  I could exit, and re-start Mach, and the buttons were fine.  I then closed Mach, and re-started Scream, and added a new button, without changing any of the old ones.  I re-start Mach, and my scripts are gone.  And, the new button is not there, until I explicitly load the new screenset.  It appears Mach keeps a copy of the screenset internally somehow?

I just don't get:

When/where/by whom are the scripts saved?
When/where/by whom is the .set file actually read?
When/where/by whom does the .set file get written?

I must be missing something, or doing something wrong, because the behavior seems totally random.  I neve know what's going to change, or when.  Actually creating the screens is easy, but getting them to actually work is another matter entirely....

Regards,
Ray L.

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Works in progress / Re: One More All-In-One Milling Screen

« on: February 27, 2009, 09:01:35 PM »

There are two LEDs that, supposedly, indicated G90 or G91 in effect.  But, in reality, only one of them actually works - the other is ALWAYS zero. 

Are you using 48 and 49? They work fine for me.

I must be pretty lucky, or your unlucky, because I haven't seen too many problems at all.

If you 'd like, I'll check it out and see if I can see what's wrong for ya.

The problem is, there are non-obvious dependencies.  Earlier, I was trying to get the Flood/Mist buttons and LEDs to work.  No matter what I did, clicking either button would turn on BOTH LEDs, even though everything was setup correctly.  The problem turned out to be that I didn't the pins properly assigned!  I assigned the pins, and suddenly the buttons and LED now work.

I still have no idea what's going on with the scripts.  I edit them, get them working, and then sometime later they simply disappear.  It's very frustrating.  The whole process seems REALLY fiddly and error prone.  Scream crashes at least 10 times a day as well.

Regards,
Ray L.

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Works in progress / Re: One More All-In-One Milling Screen

« on: February 27, 2009, 06:57:25 PM »

Good Grief!  This is the most bug-ridden, indeterminate application I've ever used!  It keeps disappearing my button scripts!  I write them, exit Mach, re-start Mach, and they're there.  I exit again, re-start, and they're gone!  What the hell is going on??  *WHEN* do the scripts actually get saved?  It appears to be a totally random event at this point.

Regards,
Ray L.

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Works in progress / Re: One More All-In-One Milling Screen

« on: February 27, 2009, 06:29:27 PM »

Double check the codes, and check how your output pins are assigned. My "buttons" are the LEDS, with transparent buttons on top of them. They both work fine for me.

If you copy and paste buttons, you have to be careful. When making changes in the button dialog, I've noticed that if you change too many things at once, that all the changes don't take place. So I make my location changes and click OK, then go back and make the OEM Code changes.

It's possible that the OEM codes stayed the same when you thought you changed them.

Gerry,

I have absolutely seen the problem of changes not "taking", more than once.  But, in this case, the correct codes are absolutely there, but it still behaves irrationally.  It's incredible - I setup a button or LED identically to the way it's setup in 1024.set, and it behaves differently!  And it's baffling the odd assortment of buttons/LEDs etc. available.  When there are similar functions, there are not necessarily similar buttons or LEDs available.  And it seems in many case when there are, one of them simply doesn't work.  I found this writing macros as well - There are two LEDs that, supposedly, indicated G90 or G91 in effect.  But, in reality, only one of them actually works - the other is ALWAYS zero.  There just seems to be an awful lot of stuff that simply doesn't work, and that makes the job very frustrating.

Regards,
Ray L.

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Works in progress / Re: One More All-In-One Milling Screen

« on: February 27, 2009, 03:18:27 PM »

This is sooooooo buggy!!!  I created two buttons, assigned to OEM codes 113 and 114.  I created two LEDs, assigned to OEM codes 12 and 13.  Clicking EITHER button turns on BOTH LEDs!!  What is going on here??

Regards,
Ray L.

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Works in progress / Re: Scream4 Crashing!!

« on: February 27, 2009, 02:49:09 PM »

OK, if you do a drag-select AROUND the flaky control, you can select it, then delete it.  I just wish I knew what made it go wonky....

Regards,
Ray L.

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Works in progress / Re: Scream4 Crashing!!

« on: February 27, 2009, 01:43:05 PM »

Can you right click on them and change them to a built in function and see if that helps. Then, if you can, delete them and replace them.

That's all I have, as I've never had this problem myself.

Gerry,

Unfrotunately, these are normal, non-image, buttons, which don't respond to right click, only double-click.  Single or double-click causes the crash.

Scream4 is one seriously buggy SOB....

Regards,
Ray L.

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Works in progress / Scream4 Crashing!!

« on: February 27, 2009, 01:13:35 PM »

I've gone a long way towards creating my screen set, but, now all of a sudden, I have a couple of buttons which, when I select them in Scream4, causes the entire screenset display to go blank!  At first, I had one, then I changed the OEM code on another button, and now it's doing the same thing.  Any ideas how to get around this?  If I can't, I've just wasted an awful lot of time....

Regards,
Ray L.