On Saturday 12 January 2013 21:47:22 Tom Easterday did opine: Message additions Copyright Saturday 12 January 2013 by Gene Heskett
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 6:12 PM, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10 January 2013 00:08, Peter Jensen <jensen_rem...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Rockhopper_Web_Server > > > > I only just got round to looking at this. > > It's fairly cool. > > > > However, what surprised me was to find that you have just quietly and > > with no fanfare embedded a HAL graphing utility? > > It is quite cool and extremely helpful to see HAL config represented in > this way. The lack of fanfare is partly because if the HAL graph gets > very complicated it becomes unreadable. A more sophisticated algorithm > is needed to keep the lines from piling up on each other. We looked at > a bunch of them, but only the tools that cost money (big money in some > cases) were up to the task. We have a very complicated HAL config for > the plasma machine > (http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GantryPlasmaMachine) and it > turns out to be completely unreadable using the imbedded tool. > > That said, for many hal configs, or if you are just beginning to write > one, this view is extremely useful. > > -Tom >From the snapshots above, I'd say very helpful. I'll see about installing it on the lathe tomorrow. Thank you very much for the heads up Tom. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> It's more than magnificent-it's mediocre. -Samuel Goldwyn I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder to find any... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
