How to connect buttons and files.

Yep that is for a subroutine, which is what I use. Never had occasion to try with to get a phyton program to work the way you describe.
As John pointed out you may want to look at ngcgui which you can embed in tabs for fast access to ngc files from AXIS. These can be quite powerful and easy to edit.

Rick G

Yes I understood John's way.

But I wanted to stay with mainstream axis and pyvcp.
I prefer mainstream, otherwise it's easy to run into frustration, as happend with mocca....

It seems as I understood coorectly the functionality of O code..... Pitty, But
I'l stay on looking around for a solution.

THX to both of you, Rick and John.

Mike

OK Ihave partialy sucess:

In the ini file :

OPEN_FILE = /home/cnc/emc2/nc_files/EMC.ngc
......................
#

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Connect buttons of screen

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HALUI =halui

[HALUI]
MDI_COMMAND = G0 X1 Y1 Z1
MDI_COMMAND = G0 X2 Y2 Z2
MDI_COMMAND = G0 X3 Y3 Z3
MDI_COMMAND = o<Tools/square> call



In the postgui / pyvyp.hal :
net cmd00 pyvcp.cmd00 halui.mdi-command-00
net cmd01 pyvcp.cmd01 halui.mdi-command-01
net cmd02 pyvcp.cmd02 halui.mdi-command-02
net cmd03 pyvcp.cmd03 halui.mdi-command-03


In my ncfiles I have a subdirectoty called tools and as examle herin the file square.ngc:
o<tools/square> sub
G0 Z1
G0 x0 y0
F 120
G1 x0 y0 z0
G1 x0 y10 z0
G1 x10 y10 z0
G1 x10 y0 z0
G1 x0 y0 z0
o<tools/square> endsub
M2
%

As soon as I press the button, all commands in the file are processed correctly.

That way I can predefine some G-code programms, runned without request.
I'll experiment with M1 and message to get additional information and safety on screen

Maybe I'l find also something for .py and jpg. ;-()

Mike

Perhaps Andy will jump in,

In the mean time have you looked at ...

www.linuxcnc.org/component/option,com_ku...d,6514/lang,english/

Rick G

Great, looks like your on your way.

Rick

Yes Rick

I thibk this will be a good way to go.

I forgot about M101 etc.

Mike

Hi Andy

Yes Ricks way via M1ff commands works

I'm just in the phase to try the available python files and decide wich ones I want to use.

The only bad thing:
I have to copy the files to the base nc_files direktory and rename them to M101 to M1ff ... and make them executable.

I was not able to do it a bit more indircet ( by placing the calls inside those "command files" , means working with the original file names.py . )

Mike

Hi

I'm totaly frustrated.

I got everthing to work. Nice pyvcp. To metric adjusted phyton files. Calling the phyton files via M1xx command.

BUT no more transfer of data to the Axis screen..... !!!!!!!!!

I could identify some code that is reacting if the phyton program is called inside of Axis....
BUT I dont understand what I have to modify or if it is eventually impossible to get what I wanted ??

I have a downloadable (windows made) zip file on my www at www.eitel.ch/mechatronics/MeCNC/cnc.zip

a.) my complete configuration MeBigCNC2 ( having a second parport at D4000 )
b.\ a part of my nc_files with the M1xx commands and the "source" in the /tools subdirectory

I hope that I did not lost all those hours to "include" .py in axis via buttons ....

Mike

P.S.
I have choosen as username : cnc