On Wednesday 12 October 2016 07:35:22 Erik Friesen wrote: > It uses an atmel chip. However, that isn't the hangup to me. I see > context switching as a real challenge. So you hit the edit button, > then what? Open gedit? I'd really like to limit GUI excursions and > control the whole thing closer than that.
You mentioned gedit, which gets my attention. That "thing" has scrambled a file for me for the very last time. I don't even install it on a fresh install, but nano to avoid remote x problems, and geany for a gedit-like editor that has yet to record or miss-record, usually because I am typing on a membrane covered keyboard and don't hit the key hard enough. When I started to make TLM work with a 5i25 card because software stepping wasn't fast enough, I had to nuke the .ini and .hal files and start from scratch with a fresh run of stepperconf in the first month while I was adding this and that to complete the working config. About every 9 or 10 times I called up gedit to fix a typu, I would fine the files was scrambled by picking up a kilobyte of it and randomly inserting it 2 or 3 other places in the file, with the start of the insert being mid-line of the inserted section, and inserted mid-line where it was inserted. Save yourself such potential gcodeing headaches by making the default editor geany in the axis.ini file. IMO gedit is a TTD, a Textually Transmitted Disease. > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Gregg Eshelman <g_ala...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Look on the back of the keyboard for microchips, or on a board that > > the keyboard connects to. Google the numbers to see what they are. > > > > I'd thought about hoking up the keyboard from the Anilam Crusader 2 > > system that was on my big mill. Shouldn't have been too difficult > > since a cable went from the keyboard to another small board with a > > matrix to RS232C chip. Would have mostly been figuring out the > > pinout of the header on the adapter board then setting up a text > > editor to take input from a COM port, then poking every button to > > see what characters it sent. > > > > > > From: Erik Friesen <e...@aercon.net> > > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > > <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 > > 6:59 AM > > Subject: [Emc-users] Haas thoughts > > > > Are any of these items valid any more? > > > > http://blog.cnccookbook.com/2014/12/16/10-features-pros- > > hobby-cnc-controllers-dont/ > > > > What would it take (software wise) to fully integrate a haas keypad > > so that most of the functions would be usable? The ones I see as a > > challenge are items like Posit, Offset, and all the edit functions. > > > > Reference keypad http://aercon.net/Public/HaasKeyboard.jpg I could only see one advantage there, the keypad itself is innately swarf-proof unless its still hot enough to burn the plastic. Chromerics keyboards are rated 10 million presses per key, but is that a Chromerics? The cheap ones can fail in 5000 or less presses. And the layout is a bad dream for a true typist. I ran screaming to refill my coffee cup which was caught empty. I could, if I was using canned code, but I write 95+% of what I run, eventually get used to that layout, but I am now used to the std computer keyboard. Que that comment and old dogs and new tricks. Fits me and my muscle memory well. And I am not, in your wildest dreams, a touch typist. My $0.02 but adjust for 82 years of inflation. {O_o} 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-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
