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Mach Screens / Re: Display Slow Jog in IPM

« on: December 24, 2011, 06:13:12 PM »

Thanks for the reply.

I tried DRO 829, but it stays unchanged at 0.  It shows up in the Brains editor, but it's not identified in the MachScreen editor.  I tried writing a Brain.  I can get the Jog % value, but I don't know how to access the number to multiply it by.  It appears to be the maximum Velocity from the motor tuning of whatever axis I'm jogging.  Any suggestions?

This number would be very helpful when using my pendant to do a Constant Velocity move.  I can look at IPM and tell if the cutting speed looks OK, but I don't have a feel for percentages!

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Mach Screens / Display Slow Jog in IPM

« on: December 24, 2011, 02:33:03 PM »

Is there a way to display the Slow Jog rate in IPM instead of as a percentage with OEMDRO 3?

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VB and the development of wizards / User Defined Function

« on: December 23, 2011, 09:51:58 AM »

Is there a way to create user defined functions that are available globally?

In the screen designer, I have defined several buttons that execute VB code.  The functions are similar, but not identical.  I have a VB function that's defined in a large section of code.  I'd prefer not to include the code that defines the function in each of the calling buttons.  If I do, I have to keep editing every instance when I make a change.  What I'd like to do is:

     Button 1-10 - just a few lines of code that call function using different parameters.

     Large chunk of code defining function - located somewhere else.

I need to pass parameters to the function, and receive return parameters from the function.  The function needs to complete execution before returning control to the calling VB code.

Is there a way to do this?  I've searched the forum and so far it appears that you can't do this.

Thanks.