Re: [Emc-users] Jogging peripharals was Re: adding 2nd parallel port

2007-01-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 04:06, John Prentice wrote: >Chris > >> If I was making a pendant I'd sure want a jogwheel instead of >> plus/minus buttons. It takes the same number of inputs and works much >> (much!) better. I have a real jogwheel but one of these days I'm >> going to try one of th

Re: [Emc-users] Jogging peripharals was Re: adding 2nd parallel port

2007-01-10 Thread Mario .
Fantastic... but a support for more mouse interfaces would greater ;-) You shoul be able to set-up in settings if X or Y axis would be used, or be able to lock one axis still if a trackball would be used. Question is how to properly assign many mice at one computer? Maybe if you have one PS/2 stan

Re: [Emc-users] Jogging peripharals was Re: adding 2nd parallel port

2007-01-10 Thread Anders Wallin
Mario. wrote: > When you say that.. standard PS2 or USB mouse could be used for that! > You can connect as many as you like and changing mouse functionality > to a jogwheel or a trackball is very simple. The optical sensor has > well-defined DPI with +-1.5% tolerance, for jogwheel that should be >

Re: [Emc-users] Jogging peripharals was Re: adding 2nd parallel port

2007-01-10 Thread Mario .
When you say that.. standard PS2 or USB mouse could be used for that! You can connect as many as you like and changing mouse functionality to a jogwheel or a trackball is very simple. The optical sensor has well-defined DPI with +-1.5% tolerance, for jogwheel that should be enough and putting it ne

[Emc-users] Jogging peripharals was Re: adding 2nd parallel port

2007-01-10 Thread John Prentice
Chris > If I was making a pendant I'd sure want a jogwheel instead of > plus/minus buttons. It takes the same number of inputs and works much > (much!) better. I have a real jogwheel but one of these days I'm > going to try one of the little toy knob encoders from mouser etc - > they're meant to