Thanks so much. show pin worked very well. I was able to discover what the pin name actually was and then incorporate it in my setup. I guess it should have been intuitive that you can do this while running a test program but I didn't get it from the hal manual. And this was after going through the hal tutorial.
Jack Ensor Quoting John Kasunich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > HAL is designed to be very "discoverable". That means you can easily > find out what pins exist for yourself, rather than asking questions on > mailing lists and waiting for people to tell you the answers. > > Comment out the line that is causing the problem (put a # in front of > it) and then start EMC. > > Then open another shell (terminal window), and run "halcmd show pin" > You will get a long list showing all the pins in your running EMC. > You can scroll up in the list to find whatever you want (it is in > alphabetical order). You can shorten the list by providing a partial > name: "halcmd show pin mo" will show only pins beginning with "mo", > which includes all the motion ones. > > "show sig" can be used the same way, as can "show param". It is an > interactive system - interact with it! > > Regards, > > John Kasunich > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
