Flying Electron wrote:
> Scratch all that, I got it to load a file. I don't know how I ended up
> with all the wierd estop messages and such.
>
> emc_mode auto
> emc_open with the filename seems to work to load the program
>
> I think i didn't set the mode to auto previously and went down a bad
> path of error messages.
>
> Is there away to ask axis to update it's preview gui from the tclsh and
> emcsh?
>
Actually, there's a program called axis-remote that can tell axis to
load a file, run the file, reload (I think), etc. There should be a man
page for it. I don't know much about it other than that it exists, and
it can make axis do certain things, hence the manpage referral :)
- Steve
> Thanks!
>
> sa...@flyingelectron.com wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to get emcsh to open a user generated ngc file through the
>> tclsh interface. Currently I have axis open and axis loads the default
>> ngc file which draws EMC2 Axis on the axis preview screen. When I try to
>> issue an emc_open followed by my filename in the tclsh I get an error
>> reported by axis that a file is already open.
>>
>> I looked on google, and it looked like someone else had the same problem
>> with no resolution. So i went in and tried to add some code to emcsh.cc
>> and shcom.cc to implement an emc_close command.
>>
>> in shcom.cc I added (copied and modified from sendProgramPause)
>>
>> int sendProgramClose()
>> {
>> EMC_TASK_PLAN_CLOSE emc_task_plan_close_msg;
>>
>> emc_task_plan_close_msg.serial_number = ++emcCommandSerialNumber;
>> emcCommandBuffer->write(emc_task_plan_close_msg);
>> if (emcWaitType == EMC_WAIT_RECEIVED) {
>> return emcCommandWaitReceived(emcCommandSerialNumber);
>> } else if (emcWaitType == EMC_WAIT_DONE) {
>> return emcCommandWaitDone(emcCommandSerialNumber);
>> }
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> in emcsh.cc I added to the function Emc_Init
>>
>> Tcl_CreateObjCommand(interp, "emc_close", emc_close, (ClientData) NULL,
>> (Tcl_CmdDeleteProc *) NULL);
>>
>> and I added the function
>>
>> static int emc_close(ClientData clientdata,
>> Tcl_Interp * interp, int objc, Tcl_Obj * CONST objv[])
>> {
>> if (0 != sendProgramClose()) {
>> Tcl_SetResult(interp, "emc_close: can't close program",
>> TCL_VOLATILE);
>> return TCL_OK;
>> }
>>
>> return TCL_OK;
>> }
>>
>> Now I think I did everything correctly for a hack and slash job of adding
>> a new command, but when i try to run the emc_close command it never
>> returns back in the tclsh. I know the EMC_TASK_PLAN_CLOSE message is
>> getting sent since the first time it complained that the machine had to be
>> out of estop and turned on. It's after I turned off the estop and turned
>> on the machine and then did an emc_close command in tclsh that it didn't
>> come back. The axis gui still responds and I can turn the machine on and
>> off from there, but the EMC2 AXIS is still drawn in the axis preview and
>> it looks like the tclsh died so something is not working properly.
>>
>> Anybody have an ideas on what I did wrong?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
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