Or: "How to pause your script while an axis is moving."

Hey! It works in build 1817!

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||  Script Desc   ::: Pause script execution while an axis is in motion (m4 version of IsMoving )
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inst = mc.mcGetInstance()
mc.mcCntlGcodeExecute(inst, "g91 g1 x1") --execute gcode
while (mc.mcCntlIsStill(inst)==1) do  --loops through this while an axis is moving
    mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "axis in motion") --do this while axis is moving
end  --ends the loop
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "axis is stopped")  --continues here after axis is done moving
mc.mcCntlGcodeExecute(inst, "g90") --execute gcode



here is what gets me..

mc.mcCntlIsStill(inst)==1, if the axis IS STILL, (i.e. not moving), it should give you a 1, if it IS Moving, it should return a 0.....

seams to me it should ask the question "Are you still?"  1 = yes, 0 = no..

just my own quirks I guess..

BTW:   YOU have FAR, FAR, FAR to much time on your hands for Mach4 Ascii art!!!!  hehehhee

Scott

here is what gets me..

mc.mcCntlIsStill(inst)==1, if the axis IS STILL, (i.e. not moving), it should give you a 1, if it IS Moving, it should return a 0.....

seams to me it should ask the question "Are you still?"  1 = yes, 0 = no..

just my own quirks I guess..
Scott

I thought the same thing as you when I tried the script the first time.  But it didn't work, so I flipped 0 for 1 and it did work.  I imagine that the programmers may have something else in mind but that wouldn't be the first time I couldn't follow the logic.  Oh well, once it worked I just accepted it and thats that. ;-)

BTW:   YOU have FAR, FAR, FAR to much time on your hands for Mach4 Ascii art!!!!  hehehhee

Scott

I like to give that illusion on the interwebz. 

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ascii art generator --> http://patorjk.com/software/taag/

-Nick

Build 1817: Use IsStill with caution.  It worked OK in the above script, but beyond that it is causing all sorts of problems.

Bug has been reported here -->  http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,27119.msg193580.html#msg193580