External switch in MDI/MANUAL/AUTO mode

Hi!
I use external panel to switch mode AUTO/MANUAL/MDI.
It works fine till I press the mouse and touch the screen.
If I was in MDI SCREEN mode (F3) not possible to switched in auto mode in external button.
If the program finished the manual mode becomes, but the external button is in AUTO mode!
Is it possible that screen switched from MDI mode to AUTO/MANUAL mode screen when I press external mode button switch?

It has been a while since I looked but it seems to me that if you used halui from say a usb joystick to switch from manual to mdi EMC2 will switch modes (as shown in the hal watch window) but the Axis GUI may not show the change.

Rick G

BigJohnT wrote:

What do you use the switch for?

How is is connected up in HAL?

What GUI are you using?

John

I use AXIS.
The connection halui.mode.auto e t c
When I set "1" to halui.mode.auto or I set "1" to halui.mode.mdi, the screen not changes, while
ther are 2 screens (in menu), auto+manul and mdi.
If tell the true, the screens in AXIS GUI have to switches from one to other, if I change mode external buttons (not use F* keys or mouse).

Axis exposes some pins to hal:

halcmd: show pin axisui*
Component Pins:
Owner Type Dir Value Name
42 bit OUT FALSE axisui.jog.a
42 bit OUT FALSE axisui.jog.b
42 bit OUT FALSE axisui.jog.c
42 float OUT 0 axisui.jog.increment
42 bit OUT FALSE axisui.jog.u
42 bit OUT FALSE axisui.jog.v
42 bit OUT FALSE axisui.jog.w
42 bit OUT TRUE axisui.jog.x
42 bit OUT FALSE axisui.jog.y
42 bit OUT FALSE axisui.jog.z
42 bit IN FALSE axisui.notifications-clear
42 bit IN FALSE axisui.notifications-clear-error
42 bit IN FALSE axisui.notifications-clear-info
42 bit IN FALSE axisui.set-manual-mode

The pin axisui.set-manual-mode may be useful. You have to set it to 1 (then return to 0 to use again)

The pin axisui.set-manual-mode may be useful. You have to set it to 1 (then return to 0 to use again)

I thought that would work to get axis into manual mode, but not to mdi mode.

Rick G