How would you have it recognize your limit and or home switches? How do you set up a key to activate a command? Like the Hotkeys were in M3?

Wonderful Tom, We would would love to get you started and we have examples and so on we can get to you..

Contact us and Todd will get you the paperwork for getting the API and Steve and I will be here to help you .

Thanks
Brian

Quote from: BR549 on April 24, 2014, 09:54:42 PM

When will we get a LPT plugin to use ??

(;-) TP

There might not be one.  Not decided yet.

Steve

RUT ROW , (;-) TP

Hi Brian,

Are you taking notes of the comments and reports, or are they getting consistently missed...? What's the purpose of this thread then anyway? Would be nice of you (or Steve) could confirm that a comment posted has been noted.

Dan

figured out how to add a MDI group to the Diagnostic tab
I needed to edit the Cycle Start Button Script
added an elseif for the tab 3 (Diagnostic) and direct it to where to get the MDI data from.
Wish the copy and paste worked a little better as you have to use a text editor to hold the copy.
Once you close the scripter the copy is gone. You'll get used to it, I am sure.
I am starting to enjoy this, just wish I could drive some motors. 

if (tonumber(tab) == 1) then
    local state = mc.mcCntlGetState(inst);
    if (state == mc.MC_STATE_MRUN_MACROH) then
        mc.mcCntlCycleStart(inst);
    else
        scr.ExecMdi('mdi1');
    end
    --Run MDI
    mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "Do MDI")
    --wx.wxMessageBox("Do MDI")\
elseif (tonumber(tab) == 3) then
    local state = mc.mcCntlGetState(inst);
        scr.ExecMdi('mdi3');
    --Run MDI
    mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "Do MDI")
    --wx.wxMessageBox("Do MDI")\
else
   --Do CycleStart
    mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "Do Cycle Start")
    mc.mcCntlCycleStart(inst)
    --wx.wxMessageBox("Do Cycle Start")
end


Also figured out how to get the m3 m4 to work right with MDI or in the gcode
had to edit the mcs scripts as shown below
notice the direction is -1 for reverse.
I added a new button and led for reverse on the Spindle group
all works well now, come on I'm ready to move something.
just not sure if these need to be local or not.
might change it to forward and reverse as it is just a message that is displayed in history

function m3()
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, 'Spindle Clockwise')

local inst = mc.mcGetInstance();
local sigh = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.OSIG_SPINDLEON);
local sigState = mc.mcSignalGetState(sigh);

    mc.mcSpindleSetDirection(inst, 1);
end

function m4()
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, 'Spindle Counter Cockwise')

local inst = mc.mcGetInstance();
local sigh = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.OSIG_SPINDLEON);
local sigState = mc.mcSignalGetState(sigh);

    mc.mcSpindleSetDirection(inst, -1);
end


Bug report:
after leaving screen edit mode
the Enable button is blinking, should either be Disable or Axis Status should have been disabled on return. Little confusing.

question:
tried to turn off the Outputs Enable 0-3 led's but they get reset to default ON every time when Enable button pressed.
where do they get the status set to default ON from? Every output is not setup on the config page.
Tried setting the screen led default to OFF for each but no luck.

BTW: For some reason the m3 m4 does not work again, though the code is still there. Only thing I think I did was save it as a new screen and shut it down and restarted mach4. Temper mental or what? worked fine for quite a few test, now other than the button for reverse and the led the mdi does not work again but just for the spindle.
 

Found my BONE HEADED mistake   or at least it better be, 

local inst = mc.mcGetInstance();
Has to be declared before you use it, that's why on restart it was no longer declared.

function m3()
local inst = mc.mcGetInstance();
local sigh = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.OSIG_SPINDLEON);
local sigState = mc.mcSignalGetState(sigh);
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, 'Spindle Forward')
    mc.mcSpindleSetDirection(inst, 1);
end

function m4()
local inst = mc.mcGetInstance();
local sigh = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.OSIG_SPINDLEON);
local sigState = mc.mcSignalGetState(sigh);
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, 'Spindle Reverse')
    mc.mcSpindleSetDirection(inst, -1);
end


Hi Brian,

Are you taking notes of the comments and reports, or are they getting consistently missed...? What's the purpose of this thread then anyway? Would be nice of you (or Steve) could confirm that a comment posted has been noted.

Dan

Sometimes I don't get the reply notifications from the forum.  I'm reading this thread today for the first time since I last posted to it, so I really haven't had time to ACK every post.  Just put the items/comments in here and we will see them.

As to your points about the Soft Limits click issue and the DRO entry, consider them duly noted.

Steve