Re: [Emc-users] looking for input about classicladder

2008-03-01 Thread rehenry
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "I think the advantage is it is visual, you can see the changes right away and see quite a big picture at one time. I don't think it's that hard to pick up. I've tried to document things along the way- Classicladder docs were pretty scarce when I started." The v

Re: [Emc-users] looking for input about classicladder

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Morley
Jeff Epler ported CL version 7.100 to classicladder. Many people have worked on it before and after. Even the original author, Marc used some of our ideas in his updates. > Some > time later, Marc (CL author) resumed work on it, and it advanced enough > that someone (I wish I could remember

Re: [Emc-users] looking for input about classicladder

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Morley
John was referring to the first couple of versions adapted to EMC2. Modbus has been enabled in the newest version (7.124) in trunk because some people were asking about modbus, the code was already there, and a different person is maintaining Classicladder right now (me). It is experimental an

Re: [Emc-users] looking for input about classicladder

2008-03-01 Thread John Kasunich
Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 17:13 -0500, John Kasunich wrote: >> When CL was ported, its original drivers, including the modbus driver, >> were replaced with hooks into HAL. So the modbus driver did not get ported. >> > > What about: > ... > From: >

Re: [Emc-users] looking for input about classicladder

2008-03-01 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 17:13 -0500, John Kasunich wrote: ... snip > I don't think of CL as a scripting language at all. It is strictly a > software based PLC. The original ClassicLadder was non-realtime, and > had built in drivers for a small variety of I/O devices, including > Modbus. Porting

Re: [Emc-users] looking for input about classicladder

2008-03-01 Thread John Kasunich
Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:09 +, Chris Morley wrote: >> Greetings all: > ... snip >> Also I would like to know from users where the documentation is >> lacking/unclear. >> >> Thanks >> Chris Morley > > I am still having trouble understanding the scope of EMC/Classic Ladder

Re: [Emc-users] looking for input about classicladder

2008-03-01 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:09 +, Chris Morley wrote: > Greetings all: ... snip > Also I would like to know from users where the documentation is > lacking/unclear. > > Thanks > Chris Morley I am still having trouble understanding the scope of EMC/Classic Ladder. It would be nice to have an int

[Emc-users] looking for input about classicladder

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Morley
Greetings all: I was in contact with Marc (classicladder's author) and he asked me what my wish list was for new development. I added this to the Wikki (most of it Marc would not be interested in): * Things I am considering: - The classicladder userspace program should check that t