On 10/26/2016 02:59 PM, Jim Craig wrote: > Hello All, > > I have been on the emc-users list for some time now. I have a feature > that I would like to attempt to add to the LinuxCNC project so I joined > this list as I figured it was a better place to ask questions about > development.
Hello, welcome! > I think that many users would greatly benefit from a GUI based HAL > configurator. I downloaded the latest source code from the git > repository. I have been looking at all of the HAL source code that I can > find. The one application that I cannot find is the halshow application > that is used to show the current running HAL configuration. Where is the > source code for this application located? I was thinking about adding > the functionality to this application. I agree that would be useful. The halshow program is built from tcl/bin/halshow.tcl by the main src/Makefile. > I also saw that someone had started a graphical HAL configurator and it > was last modified some 11 years ago. This application is written in > python but it is incomplete. Does anyone know who was working on this > portion of the project? The idea has been proposed in the past, and some folks started experimenting with different approaches, but as far as i know, nothing usable ever came of it. Here's an old mailing list thread mentioning some of the started attempts: https://sourceforge.net/p/emc/mailman/message/31348776/ -- Sebastian Kuzminsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern Developers Did the resurgence of CLI tooling catch you by surprise? Reconnect with the command line and become more productive. Learn the new .NET and ASP.NET CLI. Get your free copy! http://sdm.link/telerik _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
