Pin 'halui.estop.is−activated' does not exist, when clearly it does

cmorley wrote:

When I looked at your postgui file I see this on line 13 :

net e-stop-active <= halui.estop.is−activated

Chris M

So, yeah. Not a file encoding issue. But I copy-pasted it from the documentation page, which actually has "&minus;" in the HTML source, which ends up rendering a 3-byte UTF8 character, and not a hyphen. It probably should be "&hyphen;", but really, the source files should be encoded as UTF8 and just typed directly.

Thank you for noticing. I was editing the file in BBEdit on a Mac and it displayed it as a hyphen-looking thing, and I couldn't see anything amiss.

So that fixed the problem? - excellent - ya sometimes a new set of eyes...
Never cam across that error before.

Chris M

Yup, totally fixed the problem. Not the problem inherent in the HTML docs, but the problem in my HAL file

it is highly recomented to set your editor to utf-8

My editor *is* UTF-8. It can be argued that's what caused the problem. When I copied the pin name from the web docs, it was wrong, but it wasn't visibly wrong in a UTF-8 editor. An ASCII-only editor would've shown it as a set of garbage characters, as Chris M pointed out.

Which editor are you using? You can't go past Geany.
I am always very wary copying and pasting from a web site I often paste it into a ascii text editor before using it if I have any doubt.

It's the LinuxCNC website! It's just generated badly (either the source material or the HTML generator is wrong).

you shoudt prefer the pdf Documentation on all stuff
as best you can use it direct on the mashine side