Hi Eric, That is interesting. I wonder what sort of performance penalty there would be using this interface? To get a reasonable display update rate, there is going to have to be a lot of polling going on...
Thanks, Les Eric H. Johnson wrote: > Les, > > You might consider using the telnet interface emcrsh, documented here: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Emcrsh > > If you write your interface to the specification without copying any of the > server side code, there should not be a problem with GPL or other licensing. > The interface is plain text, so it is easy to test over a telnet session, > and 'help' is supported over the telnet session as well. > > This interface also supports as many simultaneous connections as telnet will > handle, but will allow only one session to be "in control". IOW, any number > of sessions may monitor the CNC, but only one may issue commands. It does > not interlock with any local interfaces such as Axis, however. > > Regards, > Eric > > I would like to write a plugin for SheetCam that provides a simple front end > to EMC. This would integrate motion ontrol and CAM in one package. > The problem is that SheetCam is closed source as I need to make a living out > of it. > > Can this be done without violating the EMC license? > > If it can, is it possible to have two GUIs controlling EMC at the same time? > For instance SheetCam could provide a basic position display and > run/pause/stop controls. For anything more sophisticated, the user could use > Axis or any other GUI. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
