> On 23 Mar 2020, at 6:52 pm, Chris Morley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have been delving deeper into linuxcnc to see if I could correct the status 
> of F code.
> For those who don't know the Fcode status report in AXIS (or any gui) is 
> actually the status of the interpreter rather then the current Fcode. If you 
> have a long program that changes the fcode lat in the program you will see 
> that f code before you should.
> 
> I have code that works; it reports through status the current F code, and it 
> outputs a HAL pin of current F code.
> I'm not sure I've done it right of course.
> 
> It does this by sending a new NML message to motion each time the F code 
> changes.
> When that message gets to Motion, it updates status and the HAL pin.
> Since it's read from the interpreted list, it is in sync with the actual F 
> code.
> 
> Currently the message is called feedrate or base_feedrate which needs to be 
> changed probably to F_code.
> Then I was thinking S code should probably be updated in sync too.
> Rather then having a message per code I could call the message sync_code and 
> add other codes to it.
> 
> Opinions ? is this the wrong way to go?
> Does my code look wrong? (most of it is boiler code actually)
> 
> You can see the commits here (top 6):
> https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/commits/feedcode_message
> 
> Chris
> 
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Great work Chris, it is a bit above my pay grade but plasma users will 
appreciate this.

Cheers, Phill.

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