Subroutine GUI

I have verified that the halui.home-all pin only is available if you have home switches and a home sequence set up. Since you don't have home switches there is no home all solution for you. Your only option is to create one button for each axis in your xml file to home it and link the button by using a line similar to this in hal...

net home-x halui.joint.0.home <= pyvcp.my-x-home-button-name

halui.joint.0.home the numbers for the axis are as follows

0 = X
1 = Y
2 = Z

John

BigJohnT wrote:

I have verified that the halui.home-all pin only is available if you have home switches and a home sequence set up.

Aha!

Your only option is to create one button for each axis in your xml file to home it and link the button by using a line similar to this in hal.

Actually, I think that:

net home-all pyvcp.home-all => halui.joint.0.home halui.joint.1.home halui.joint.2.home

should work to home all axes from 1 button.
(I am not sure that doing so makes much sense in this case though)

i can't get the terminal to get the whole output. i have scroll line at 2000.
can't see where to change the buffer.
attached.

I assume that the rapid-to-home button is working? it seems to be correctly configured.

JT has already spotted the home-all problem. It seems that you don't get that pin without a home sequence.

Anyway, keep that listing, (well, the bottom third, you seem to have three copies there) as a guide to what pins you have available to put together in interesting ways.

Thanks BigJohnT and andypugh,

working on that now and yes the rapid-to-home works


and i now see the pyxcp and halui reference

well,

xml
<pyvcp>
<button>
<halpin>"halui.joint.0.home"</halpin>
<text>"Home X"</text>
<font>('Helvetica',10)</font>
</button>
</pyvcp>

custom_postgui.hal
net home-x halui.joint.0.home pyvcp.home-x

and ini
[HALUI]
MDI_COMMAND = G0 X0 Y0 Z0
HOME_X = 0

and i get
pin pyvcp.home-x does not exist

but i think it's my ini. didn't know what to equal HOME_X to.
don't think i should use g0 x0. i'm thinking it will move the table, but i tried it and got error.
from what ya'll showed me, i got it ALL right, but i'm not sure about the ini = to thingy