Well, I made the changes to Les Newell's script you suggested, and it
worked! Sort of :)
Mind you, I'm running version 2.4.3. The first time I tried running a g-code
program, nothing happened. I found I had to stop the program, then start it
again. Then it was off and running. This seems to happen every time after
loading a g-code program.
Also, you mentioned you had to press Alt-TAB to change focus. I found
all I had to do, after the tool change dialog box appeared, was to click
anywhere in the EMC window, and it picked up focus. Then I could jog,
touch off, etc. And I didn't have to press F2 afterwards.
So bottom line is, once you learn the quirks of this tool change script,
it does the job. It's exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks to everyone.
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Schooner" <schoone...@tiscali.co.uk>
To: <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Tool change question
> Hi
>
> Have now had a play with this and found how to get it working with 2.5
>
> Comment out the lines
> #iniFile = emc.ini(os.environ['INI_FILE_NAME'])
> #emc.nmlfile = s.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.environ['INI_FILE_NAME']),
> #iniFile.find("EMC", "NML_FILE"))
>
> Change the lines
> emcStat = emc.stat();
> emcCmd = emc.command()
>
> to
>
> emcStat = emc.stat();emcCmd = emc.command()
>
> Change the lines at about 52-54 with the backslashes in strange places
> so that the '\' are end of line continuation markers, as per bash
>
> The module then loads and when toolchange commanded, the dialog appears
> and you can jog all axes.
>
> However I found that I had to cycle to and from AXIS using Alt/Tab to
> get focus for mouse clicks to work and had to press F2 (machine on/off)
> to get out of this state.
>
> Not sure how it was intended to work, but it sort of does
>
> regards
>
>
>
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