On Saturday 15 April 2017 19:58:22 andy pugh wrote: > On 16 April 2017 at 00:43, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Its a last ditch thought, but not as dynamic as I'd like. I'd like > > very much if it was real time as I have used that switch in the > > middle of a gcode program more than once. > > Do you often care about jog step sizes in the middle of the execution > of a g-code program?
Perhaps .1% of the time, most often when there is a tool change or 5 in the code. > And do you really want the display switching units when you call a > mm-coded subroutine? I think that would actually just be annoying. Since we can't trace the subroutine at all, and any errors are blamed on the parent call, at least the display changing modes could tell us the subroutine is running. Its a nearly vanishingly thin excuse to be sure though. :( Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
