On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 10:58:54AM -0500, Cecil Thomas wrote:
> Does AXIS or any of the other displays support messages from .ngc or 
> allow variable inputs.
> 
> I would like to place something like (MSG  "Be sure you have touched 
> off before continuing this program")
> in my code.  

Close.  The format is (MSG, This will irritate you the third time but ...)
The comma is important.

> It would go along with a dwell to allow you to abort the 
> program if you had forgotten to touch off.

Follow with an M0.

> NGC apparently supports this but I can't seem to figure out where it 
> would be displayed.

That's up to the GUI but often it's a dialog box.

> I would also like to be able to prompt for data input (as in "Please 
> enter desired diameter:")  but I haven't found anything that appears 
> to support that in NGC.  Could I do the data input prompt by calling 
> a shell script that would prompt for the data and replace the 
> variables in the .NGC script?

Not currently.

Chris


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