[Emc-developers] Opinion on halcmd idea

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Morley
Greetings After doing work with Stepconf I has come to my attention that having multiple hal files can sometimes be messy. I was thinking a hal comand that searches a file for user defined headers with syntax like the INI file, such as: [ FIRST_SECTION ] Then runs all the commands till it

Re: [Emc-developers] Stepconf-how to make a desktop launcher in python?

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Morley
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:46:12 +0100 From: emef...@gmail.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Stepconf-how to make a desktop launcher in python? but in that case we should provide the latency performance test scripts (or links) on the

[Emc-developers] Fw: [Emc-commit] TRUNK emc2/src/emc/usr_intf/stepconf stepconf.py, 1.70, 1.71

2009-01-13 Thread Alex Joni
- Original Message - From: Chris Morley cvs-...@cvs.linuxcnc.org To: emc-com...@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:39 AM Subject: [Emc-commit] TRUNK emc2/src/emc/usr_intf/stepconf stepconf.py, 1.70,1.71 Modified file emc2/src/emc/usr_intf/stepconf/stepconf.py

Re: [Emc-developers] Fw: [Emc-commit] TRUNK emc2/src/emc/usr_intf/stepconf stepconf.py, 1.70, 1.71

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Morley
Difference: http://cvs.linuxcnc.org/cvs/emc2/src/emc/usr_intf/stepconf/stepconf.py.diff?r1=1.70;r2=1.71 - print f1, (net so-increase = pyvcp.so.increase = halui.spindle-override.increase) - print f1, (net so-decrease = pyvcp.so.decrease =

Re: [Emc-developers] Stepconf-how to make a desktop launcher in python?

2009-01-13 Thread Leslie Newell
I think it would be a good idea to put the latency test in the cnc menu. Again it is just a 'desktop file. Les Mario. wrote: but in that case we should provide the latency performance test scripts (or links) on the desktop too, like I suggested before. Because the latency test is what you

Re: [Emc-developers] Stepconf-how to make a desktop launcher in python?

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Morley
I think it would be a good idea to put the latency test in the cnc menu. Again it is just a 'desktop file. Les I agree then maybe a novice would run one before getting too far! Mario. wrote: but in that case we should provide the latency performance test scripts (or links) on

Re: [Emc-developers] Opinion on halcmd idea

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Morley
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:41:13 + From: l...@sheetcam.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Opinion on halcmd idea Can't say I'm all that convinced. I tend to prefer to keep things modular. One file for each task. Les Well it would allow

Re: [Emc-developers] Opinion on halcmd idea

2009-01-13 Thread Leslie Newell
It is probably my programming background. I probably wouldn't do a hello world program in less that 4 files :-) Les Well it would allow you to have one hal file. one hal file that does all the hal things. Thats not actually how I wanted to use it I wanted to go from 5 files to 2. but you

Re: [Emc-developers] Opinion on halcmd idea

2009-01-13 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Chris Morley wrote: Greetings After doing work with Stepconf I has come to my attention that having multiple hal files can sometimes be messy. Yep. They're useful sometimes, cumbersome other times. I was thinking a hal comand that searches a file for user defined headers with syntax like

Re: [Emc-developers] Opinion on halcmd idea

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Morley
I was thinking a hal comand that searches a file for user defined headers with syntax like the INI file, such as: [ FIRST_SECTION ] Then runs all the commands till it reaches the next header. This idea has come up before. The idea is to make it possible to use just an ini-style

[Emc-developers] comp names= (was Re: Opinion on halcmd idea)

2009-01-13 Thread Jeff Epler
On a related note, there's a feature that I quietly added to 'comp' on TRUNK that may be useful here. One problem that was mentioned elsewhere in the thread is that you not only have to set the number of 'or2' instances at the load-time of or2, but you have to agree on the numbering everywhere.

Re: [Emc-developers] comp names= (was Re: Opinion on halcmd idea)

2009-01-13 Thread John Kasunich
Jeff Epler wrote: Jeff PS can anybody remind me of the status of 'halcmd alias' in TRUNK? It's in there, and I believe it is finished. Well, mostly finished - I don't recall if I updated the help screen, man page, manual, etc. Regards, John Kasunich

Re: [Emc-developers] Stepconf-how to make a desktop launcher in python?

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Morley
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:13:05 + From: l...@sheetcam.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Stepconf-how to make a desktop launcher in python? Desktop shortcuts and launchers are very dependent on the windowing system aren't they?

Re: [Emc-developers] Stepconf-how to make a desktop launcher in python?

2009-01-13 Thread Mario .
Just a sidenote that Ubuntu 6.06LTS (the standard for EMC2 enabled distribution in the past) was forcibly upgraded to current LTS (long-term-support) version. In other words, if it works in the linux distro usually provided on linuxcnc site - it satisfies most novices anyway. Someone who tries to