On 7 October 2013 03:15, Jeff Epler <jep...@unpythonic.net> wrote: > .. this will ultimately be needed for mah's work on jog-while-paused.
While you are tweaking Axis... There is someone on the forums trying to keep a pendant and the Axis UI in agreement about what the current "active" jog axis is. http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/24-hal-components/27061-showing-which-axis-is-selected?limitstart=0#39494 I think that this falls into the usual problem of it being easy for hardware to respond to the position of a physical switch, but less easy for a physical switch to respond to software. What I am wondering is if Axis could export a pin that, if set, selects that axis for jogging. I think it would need to default to a "magic number" and if actually driven to a different value then the on-screen buttons would have to become just indicators. The more I think about this, and how to make it usable, the less useful it appears ;-) Currently my Mill is set up with Axis and a touchscreen with a jogwheel. It has always been the intention to run with Touchy, but Axis is familiar and little more convenient for development work. I have a physical jogwheel, but select the active axis in the GUI, with Axis taking the place of the physical axis-select switch. Maybe there is some argument for the option to have the axis-select buttons in Axis as indicators rather than controls, but I am not sure that it is a strong argument, on reflection. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
