[Emc-users] The saga of Gene vs pi is completed

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

I am now back very close to what I had working on the morning of May 2.
The main diff is the colors and functions in the gui for those long
horizontal bars. While I was sorting the last 4 wires out, and my
inability to make units compile again, made me realize those bars would
be much more useful if used as the timeout status. My latest
configuration holds the dial active until its been stopped for 5
seconds, then disables it. But I had no tally as to if it was still
active, so now the bar for that axis turns green, from a red default,
when its active. Now I do, and I believe thats more usefull, more
often, than any indication of metric/imperial status.

In other words, its running, and except for keyboard & mouse missfires
occasionally, is working well. I carved about a 6 pack of
lathe-pawn.ngc's out of air with it in the last 1.5 hours..

Both keyboard and mouse are missing events. Particularly key up events
are the worse because even the mouse, if advancing a slider, can get
stuck down and go into a key repeat. A certifible Pain in the Ass.

Jogging keeps track of where it moved, and if the dial is spun back to
zero in the same enabled time it started from zero, the DRO will be
showing zero also WITH the exception that it must not hit a soft limit
while being moved with a jog dial, as it will lose its zero point in
that event. That's fixable, if I could get an axis/joint on-limit
signal out of motion, but I've not sussed that out yet.

As for the motion per click range, is currently in inches, but the user
could easily edit suitable metric values into the mux8 presets in the
hal file, or possibly dot source it. Another item I've not sussed yet.
Can we dot source in the hal file?

Fresh printouts of all the configuration files are made, and I'm
contemplating ordering a barrel for Bertha as its rusted out and has
long since lost its one inch edge. Since I've many pounds of LC55
brass, a 6.5-06-Ackly-Improved looks attractive. Probably more noise but
less recoil.

Now, I have high grass to attend to but at 84F locally, it can wait till
it starts to cool down.

Cheers, Gene Heskett