Chris, I agree on the jogwheel. Because I currently don't have a jogwheel I am making due w/ the arrow keys on the AXIS GUI and it is working, my biggest problem is proximity to the work. I am still stuck at trying to figure out how to make a selection of the correct axis to jog w/o having a hardwired line for each selection? I will probably have to just try some things. If I have a momentary switch connected to halui.jog.selected are you thinking that it will index to a new axis as I press and release? Also looking in the Hal document I am not seeing halui.jog.selected, should i be looking somewhere? I do see halui.jog-wheel.axis but this is a u8 data type. I think the key to figuring this out is an understanding of the available blocks/functions and how to use them to create a program.
Thanks, Mike On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 22:09 -0600, Chris Radek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:59:39PM -0500, Mike Cinquino wrote: > > > > With out a jog wheel: I could have buttons that would jog in the plus or > > minus direction. I would have a multi-position switch to select X,Y,Z,A > > axis. I see in halui that i could use halui.jog.<channel> aka axis.minus > > and halui.jog.<channel> aka axis.plus . Because I am limited on inputs I > > don't want to dedicate a input for each axis + and each axis -. I would > > like to have a way to use the already selected axis/channel (0-3). It > > looks like match8 might do this but I am not completely following how it > > works in Anders .hal file. > > I didn't try it, but it looks like you can select a joint with > halui.joint.selected and then jog it with halui.jog.selected.plus and > minus. The speed is set with halui.jog-speed. > > If I was making a pendant I'd sure want a jogwheel instead of > plus/minus buttons. It takes the same number of inputs and works much > (much!) better. I have a real jogwheel but one of these days I'm > going to try one of the little toy knob encoders from mouser etc - > they're meant to be volume controls or something, but they might > still be more useful for jogging than two buttons. > > Chris > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
