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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 API/SDK
« on: June 19, 2022, 05:14:48 PM »
Hi,
the majority of things that you might want to do to your machine can be handled by coding in Lua, and for this the Mach4CoreAPI.chm is perfect.
You may notice that the API gives both Lua and C/C++ syntax. Further you may notice that there are specific and critical motion commands that do not have
Lua syntax, these are intended for C/C++ use only, ie within a plugin, and as Steve pointed out then you need to enter into an NDA with NFS.
May I suggest you experiment with Lua to start with, I think you'll be very pleasantly surprised about the functionality it provides WITHOUT the need to write a plugin.
Craig
the majority of things that you might want to do to your machine can be handled by coding in Lua, and for this the Mach4CoreAPI.chm is perfect.
You may notice that the API gives both Lua and C/C++ syntax. Further you may notice that there are specific and critical motion commands that do not have
Lua syntax, these are intended for C/C++ use only, ie within a plugin, and as Steve pointed out then you need to enter into an NDA with NFS.
May I suggest you experiment with Lua to start with, I think you'll be very pleasantly surprised about the functionality it provides WITHOUT the need to write a plugin.
Craig