Re: [Emc-developers] State Tags and Hal_port pins

2020-05-16 Thread Rod Webster
Thanks for seeing the potential Gene. You are lucky its morning there. 7:30 pm here. I've been up since 4:00 cos I've been working with a US associate. I said good night to him about lunch time so its been a long day and my imagination is really worn out about now.! Rod Webster *1300 896 832*

Re: [Emc-developers] State Tags and Hal_port pins

2020-05-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 16 May 2020 03:47:20 Rod Webster wrote: > Gene, thanks, I've played around with motion_type like that for > various things too. > > Reinhard, > I'm not interested in a UI running in user space here at all. State > tags is in the real time code section of Linuxcnc but I don't see its

Re: [Emc-developers] State Tags and Hal_port pins

2020-05-16 Thread Rod Webster
Gene, thanks, I've played around with motion_type like that for various things too. Reinhard, I'm not interested in a UI running in user space here at all. State tags is in the real time code section of Linuxcnc but I don't see its available via any pins. The state tags structure is contained

Re: [Emc-developers] State Tags and Hal_port pins

2020-05-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 16 May 2020 02:01:41 Rod Webster wrote: > Now we have both State tags and the hal_port pin type in master > branch, it occurred to me that it might be possible to publish the > state tags structure to a hal_port pin and a component could check > motion.motion_type or the tag type to

Re: [Emc-developers] State Tags and Hal_port pins

2020-05-16 Thread Reinhard
Hi Rod, On Samstag, 16. Mai 2020, 08:01:41 CEST Rod Webster wrote: > Now we have both State tags and the hal_port pin type in master branch, >... >, it would allow easy access to the state tags from a custom component > instead of letting state tags sulk in the EMC folder. don't know, if I got

[Emc-developers] State Tags and Hal_port pins

2020-05-16 Thread Rod Webster
Now we have both State tags and the hal_port pin type in master branch, it occurred to me that it might be possible to publish the state tags structure to a hal_port pin and a component could check motion.motion_type or the tag type to determine the data contained in hal_port. A cursory read