Can you map a custom MDI to a keyboard shortcut?

I have created a Custom MDI button on Axis to perform a Z Touch Off to a plate using a o100 file and placinga button on a custom panel.. I am wondering if there is anyway to tie this button or "o" file to a keyboard shortcut. Early on, I spent a couple hours trying to get a JoyPad pendant working with no success. I then installed QJoypad and had it working in minutes. It does everything I need, except initiate the touch off. I am trying to avoid going back to the drawing board on the pendant. Thanks for any help!

www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum...a-pyvcp-button#58180

There are in fact very few unused keys with Axis, I had to unlink the 1 to 0 number keys and use those.

The advantage of that, is that you can use a HID numberpad, which most small keypads have.

If you just want one or two specific 'hot keys' as opposed to 10 programable ones, direct programming as andy suggests may be easier

regards

Thanks guys! I will probably give Andy's suggestion of the _axisrc file a shot first. I had been playing with that but couldn't come up with the syntax to run an mdi command. Does the o100 file need to be in the same directory as the _axisrc file?

ArcEye, I have no doubt I will be playing with your "user commands" mod soon. That opens up a whole bunch of possibilities.

I can not get it to work. When I try this, Axis starts but pops the following error:

command (EMC_TASK_PLAN_EXECUTE) can not be executed until the machine is out of E-stop and turned on

As soon as I comment out the line:

root_window.bind("=", c.mdi("o100 call"))

from .axisrc , no longer get the error. Any ideas??

The key should be "<Key-equal>", but that is not the problem.

I tried it and got the same. It obviously does not like being linked to a MDI command before such a command could be given.

When you get around to it, I have updated the zip of Axis changes to incorporate 2.6

mgware.co.uk > Axis Modifications > User Defined Commands

or attached below

regards

OK. Thanks!

Got that installed and working, but what is the correct syntax to call a sub routine file to do the touchoff like the pyvcp button?

The same as you would from the MDI tab, test it there first.

Then assign that line to one of the USER keys, as per the README in the zip

regards