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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request

« on: February 21, 2015, 08:41:25 AM »

I guess this is the place to ask for features in the GC editor, so here we go:

1) The editor does not highlight the mating bracket when a bracket is floated over or selected. This is a handy feature for those of use who input long formulii.

I think this is the first editor I have seen short of notepad that doe not have this feature.

2) Replace should accept control codes; for example \n for newline and \t for tab and so on.

Again this is a feature of other editors, so it is hard to be without once you've come to rely on it.

3) Is there a way to select a different editor. I poked around, but did not see one.   

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MAD4MACH is released!! Try it out, and see what you think!

« on: February 21, 2015, 08:31:54 AM »

I found a pop-up that presented dual ID numbers, so on the chance that the MAD can be used with MACH4 in demo mode, I sent those numbers and 10 bucks in for a license.

I've had a MACH4 license since they went on sale, but I don't know exactly what computer I want MACH4 on at this point or what components will be in that computer. Also I don't know at this point whether development can be reasonably done using the demo mode as claimed. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MAD4MACH is released!! Try it out, and see what you think!

« on: February 21, 2015, 06:48:59 AM »

More strange behavior;

Now that I have run MACH4 from the MachMAD profile, I can go back and run it from the original profile and the mcLua.mcc not found error message is gone and the g-code runs, yet mcLua.mcc is still not present in the Mill4 profile macro folder.

It's nice that it is working with both profiles, but I would like to understand why.

Also the licensing window that is supposed tom pop up on first run of MAD never appeared. Going to the 'about' pull down and selecting the 'permanenet' NIC only yields one ID number, not the long string of numbers indicated in the MAD document.

So I have two questions:

How is the Mill4 profile now finding the mcLua.mcc that resides in the MachMAD macros folder?

Does MACH4 have to be licensed with ArtSoft (or whoever) before the MAD license IDs can be generated?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MAD4MACH is released!! Try it out, and see what you think!

« on: February 21, 2015, 06:19:21 AM »

Well, I have build 2214 installed and MACH4 will not run any g-code at all, so I will need to get that figured out before I can move forward with much of anything.

This machine is 64bit Win7Pro and everything should work so far as I know . . . but . .

Mach3 often refuses to run subroutines and now MACH4 won't run G-code at all, including the sample Roadrunner. All I have to work with is a Lua error that is too vague to be usefull.

 

The error message was a lot longer than was showing on the screen. When expanded, it included the file name that was causing the error. mcLua.mcc was missing. The problem turned out to be that I was not using a new profile created by MachMAD and the machMAD install shuffled everything around so that the MACH can't find the files unless the MachMAD profile is used.

The licensing scheme looks like it is going to be a significant hassle for users. Another nail in the MACH coffin perhaps.   

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Phantom Lua Script running on load

« on: February 21, 2015, 06:10:02 AM »

OK, I was starting MACH4 from the normal desktop icon and not using the new MachMAD profile.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Phantom Lua Script running on load

« on: February 21, 2015, 05:57:29 AM »

I did a fresh install of 2214 to a new folder (C:/Mach4/) and it is now running G-code.

The other install (C:/Mach4Hobby/) had been written over with new revs a couple of times and had a smoothstepper ESS installed at one point and also TCP Modbus. I removed the smoothstepper plug ins and disabled TCP Modbus, but nothing worked, so I did not know what the problem was.

It appears now that MachMAD is the culprit. The install created an other profile and McLua.mcc is no longer present in the original profile, but does exist in the new machMAD profile. Apparently there are some steps that I missed in the MAD install.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Phantom Lua Script running on load

« on: February 20, 2015, 07:27:56 PM »

Posting here because I think it is related to this thread.

Getting this error. fresh install of 2214. How is this possible? Shouldn't MACH4 just recompile and make a new master?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MAD4MACH is released!! Try it out, and see what you think!

« on: February 20, 2015, 07:17:34 PM »

Well, I have build 2214 installed and MACH4 will not run any g-code at all, so I will need to get that figured out before I can move forward with much of anything.

This machine is 64bit Win7Pro and everything should work so far as I know . . . but . .

Mach3 often refuses to run subroutines and now MACH4 won't run G-code at all, including the sample Roadrunner. All I have to work with is a Lua error that is too vague to be usefull.

 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH4 - Modbus

« on: February 18, 2015, 03:34:54 PM »

Machiner,

Thanks!, I'll take a peek at that.

I purchased a PoKeys 56U a long time ago and never used it for anything. Presumably the 'E' version is Ethernet, but obviously also a lot more.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MAD4MACH is released!! Try it out, and see what you think!

« on: February 18, 2015, 03:03:34 PM »

Scott.

Looks like I got ahead of myself.    I already downloaded the zip, but did nothing with it thinking I would need a license to install it.

Now I will do my homework and follow the instructions provided. I have had TCP Modbus working with MACH4 since just after the 'beta' release, but I'm sure you have discovered many ways to get the most out of it, so I'm looking forward to reading all of your stuff. I can see that you and others have been busy demystifying the processes.

And I want to make sure to thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Thank You!