http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,12188.new.html#newPokeys plugin Update with Mods.
Update: (29July2009)
PoKeys Plugin version 4.0
Added LCD support!!! You can have a: 1/2/4 Row(line) by 8/16/20 Column(Character) Display.
You have One "User Label" per Row/line that your LCD supports.
You have TWO options to write to the LCD:
1). You can write the the User Labels that you choose in the PoKeys config dialog, from VB in Mach3.
2). The other Option for those who dont want to code in VB is, you can choose to check the "Quick Pick" check
box. You will also have to Choose a "Trigger" User LED number, and Put in the "Message" you want displayed when
the LED that you Picked goes to "ON". When that LED is OFF it clears that Line.
NOTE1: If you want, you can format the DROS into the UserLabels in VB (like in the Macropump), to display
X, Y, Z or what ever DRO you want to display in "Live Time" on the LCD. (i.e. Pendants).
NOTE2: You no longer need to unplug the PoKeys before you configure it with the dialog. I moved ALL
the configuration stuff to its OWN Dialog Screen. It appears below the menu option of "PoKeys Diag.."
it is called: "PoKeys Cfg.."
NOTE3: there is "Error" cheaking in your Message lengths, if you try and put a message that has more
Characters than the LCD supports on a line, then you will get an Error message, on the PoKeys LCD, and
in Machs Error status line, and in the "UserLabel" that you where trying to fill.
NOTE4: there is "Cutouts" of the pins that the LCD uses, both in the Ports/Pins selections, and User LED selections.
the LCD uses pins: 23-26, and 28-30, Pin 43 also becomes "Used" if you turn on Analog Spindle output.
Thanks goes out again to Ed Bryson, who helped me figure out from the pokeys docs, that if you use extended functions, that you have to run both an 8 byte, and 64 byte check sum......... I mean, "Who-Would-a-Thunk-it........"
Scott