Thanks andy. They're all valid questions. I have found that a MDI move will stop short if I switch to Manual before it's done. Also there could be contention for the arrow keys. I'll try to see what Touchy does different than Axis.
Drew On 11/6/14, 4:29 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 6 November 2014 23:07, Drew Rogge <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is there an important reason why linuxCNC ignores a pendant while in MDI >> mode? > If you MDI a long move then try to jog, should the system follow the > move or the jog? > This might be the logic. I am not sure if it is great logic. > > Touchy jogs just fine in the MDI screen if it isn't actually running a > command, so I suspect what you are seeing is an Axis decision. > (Axis, as a keyboard-based GUI, does have the problem, in the MDI > tab, of trying to work out if you are typing MDI commands / editing > with the cursor keys, or keyboard shortcuts / arrow jogging.) > > I seem to recall that someone had a way to make axis automatically > switch out of MDI mode when the pendant was used. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
