I think the answer is no. But perhaps someone can suggest a work around for what I want to do.
I'd like to write some subroutines to be used interactively. For example: Jog to position one. Hit a button in pyvcp labeled "enter". That will run an mdi program that will save the current X in #<_pX0> and the current Y in #<_pY0>. Jog to the the center of a circle. Hit a button in pyvcp labeled probe circle. That will save the _pX0 and _pY0 variables in _PX1 and _PY1 (I like RPN) and save the probed center of the circle in _pX0 and _pY0. Now hit a button labeled "circular pocket". The will use _pX0, _pY0 as the center of a circle and _pX1, _PY1 as a point of the circle and create a pocket. (let's not worry about depth right now -- we could use a slider for that.) All of this could work really nicely. The one fly in the ointment is that I have to remember the contents of my stack -- the doesn't seem to be a way to display it. I'd like to add a bunch of routines for probing -- probe left, probe right, probe lower left corner, probe upper right corner, ... Having to remember what is stored in which parameter is painful. In case anyone is wondering, I use my milling machine to build prototypes; not for production. I just bought a probe and would like to build the infrastructure to work interactively. Any thoughts? Thanks, Ken -- Kenneth Lerman 55 Main Street Newtown, CT 06470 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
