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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH4 Mcode testing

« on: May 29, 2014, 06:36:21 PM »

Question for you WizBangs.

  local inst = mc.mcGetInstance();
    mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "m101");

WHAT is the "inst" and what does it do in the 2nd line. WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE

(;-) TP

1962

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request

« on: May 29, 2014, 06:30:15 PM »

Cylindrical mapping would be nice,    We had it in MAch3 

(;-) TP

1963

General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 through Command line in Windows

« on: May 29, 2014, 02:30:23 PM »

What exactly are you trying to do ??

(;-) TP

1964

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request

« on: May 29, 2014, 02:25:24 PM »

I say just let THEM add teh tool life management and Tool changer stuff. THAT way we know it is integrated correctly (;-)

AND THAT is the rest of the story, (;-) TP

1965

General Mach Discussion / Re: Parallel port for PCI bus that works with Mach3 - just passing along info

« on: May 28, 2014, 10:01:52 AM »

Lava Port products, the best there are.

(;-) TP

1966

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH4 Mcode testing

« on: May 28, 2014, 12:13:43 AM »

STEVE forgot to tell you I really LIKE that popup window in the Lua editor that when you start to type in a call it gives you a list to go by.

THAT really helps when you have to deal with that CASE sensitive beast called LUA   

Thanks (;-) TP

1967

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH4 Mcode testing

« on: May 28, 2014, 12:08:26 AM »

OK the MDI did the same thing so I did some testing with GcodeExecuteWait . It should run as teh Gcode line stated BUT it did NOT.



The Message(M222) Displayed fiirst
The X started moving to X10 and at the same time the Message (M222 Completed) was displayed
The X continued to X10 then Pause for 3 sec then returned to X0

So did something get OUT of sequence or not It shoudl not have dispalyed the last message UNTIL the Gcode was done correct??

With some testing earlier it did the same thing it had 6 lines of Gcode to do using GcodeExecuteWAIT and it processed it all OUT of order it ran the 2,4,6 then it ran the 5,3,1 lines.

So far I have tried 4 PCs here and none have been able to run code that Steve and Craig can run fine without problems. SO I do not know , untill something changes I'll just wait to see what happens. I am Dead in the water.   I can can run everything else but the LUA scripting side of mach4.

I am as happy as a a pig with a new slop trough full of PIZZA with the Gcode side of MACH4. Even more so when all the #VARs get brought out so I can use them. Well maybe if we get "AND, OR ,XOR " included in the conditional side(;-).

(;-) TP

(;-) TP



function m222()
    local inst = mc.mcGetInstance();
    mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "m222");
   local rc, DebugStopVar = 0;  
    mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait(inst, "G1 X10 F30 \n G4p5 \n G0X0");--call the m3 macro from within this m700 macro
    DebugStopVar = 1;
    --mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait(inst, "G0 x10");
      
    mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "M222 Completed " );
  end
if (mc.mcInEditor() == 1) then
    m222()
end

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH4 Mcode testing

« on: May 27, 2014, 11:34:56 PM »

HIYA Scott, Nothing too fancy just try to run a M98 SUB from inside a Mcode.  IF it can be done then I am in HIGH cotton. In the simple example I call the SUB in Gcode, it does LOAD the sub in mach4 and it does display the message (start Macro) SO it gets that far. Steve explained why it does not go any further. It DOES NOT display the last message (M222 Complete).

function m222()
    local inst = mc.mcGetInstance();
    mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "m101");
 
    mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait(inst, "M98 P5555 L1 \n (StartMacro) ");
     
    mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "M222 Completed " );
   
end

if (mc.mcInEditor() == 1) then
    m222()
end


OK in your code what does the line before and after the MDI call do ?  I will try it that way as a test using the MDI line

local rc, DebugStopVar = 0;   
    mc.mcCntlMdiExecute(inst, "m3");--call the m3 macro from within this m700 macro
    DebugStopVar = 1;

1969

General Mach Discussion / Re: Hot Key, space bar

« on: May 27, 2014, 08:01:21 PM »

It does the same thing here IF there are no hotkeys defined When you press teh space bar it repeats the last button pressed.

Just assign 1 hotkey and the problem goes away.

Just a thought, (;-) TP

1970

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH4 Mcode testing

« on: May 27, 2014, 07:42:23 PM »

OK that makes sense.

Thanks (;-) TP