Re: [Emc-users] Can gladevcp apps be run without AXIS, relying only on HAL ?

2011-07-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 July 2011 03:28, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: I think one would need to keep its limitations in mind - it's a pick-and-wire-components thing, and if you need more than a  'instantaneous propagation of int/bool/float values' paradigm you'd be hard pressed to invent a

Re: [Emc-users] Can gladevcp apps be run without AXIS, relying only on HAL ?

2011-07-22 Thread Jon Elson
andy pugh wrote: (As an aside, that does mean that you could set up a delay-line by deliberately running functions out of sequence) My E-stop scheme for the various Pico Systems interfaces use this trick. Since both software and the hardware interface can command an E-stop, the hal file

Re: [Emc-users] Can gladevcp apps be run without AXIS, relying only on HAL ?

2011-07-21 Thread Javier Ros
Michael, Thanks very much. By starting from just a HAL session, I mean to do something similar to the tutorial on HAL (in the HAL manual), in which you use halrun to load different components and to connect them together. To be able to launch a gladevcp application, so that it can be used as a

Re: [Emc-users] Can gladevcp apps be run without AXIS, relying only on HAL ?

2011-07-21 Thread Michael Haberler
interesting idea. HAL is IMO one of the strongest assets of EMC. It's a lego space which enables mix-and-match and has user extensibility, other than other parts of EMC. It is a tempting idea to spin it out and make it usable without the rest of the EMC baggage, possibly in some very different

[Emc-users] Can gladevcp apps be run without AXIS, relying only on HAL ?

2011-07-19 Thread Javier Ros
Hi, I wonder if gladevcp application can be started up just from a HAL session, as an standalone application not depending on AXIS or other interface, but just on a developer's choice of hal components?. Thank you, Javier

Re: [Emc-users] Can gladevcp apps be run without AXIS, relying only on HAL ?

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 19.07.2011 um 11:31 schrieb Javier Ros: Hi, I wonder if gladevcp application can be started up just from a HAL session, as an standalone application not depending on AXIS or other interface, but just on a developer's choice of hal components?. Javier - I'm a bit unclear what you mean

Re: [Emc-users] Can gladevcp apps be run without AXIS, relying only on HAL ?

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Haberler
after playing with it: yes you can no, motion is not part of it (moving motors and stuff) because that's a realtime component which assumes NML communication -m Am 19.07.2011 um 16:34 schrieb Michael Haberler: Am 19.07.2011 um 11:31 schrieb Javier Ros: Hi, I wonder if gladevcp