Emco PC turn 55 upgrade..

I commented out the manual change section in my hal file and added the connections to classic ladder. I was expecting to get some movement at this point when I call a tool in mdi, but it appears that my tool_change signal doesn't turn true. I haven't figured out how to watch anything without being in setup. I think maybe it would be easier if I wasn't using a 1024x768 monitor. Is there any need to put this stuff in the custom hal file as apposed to the main hal? I'll attach my hal. The classicladder connections are at the very bottom. I'll have to try to figure out how to screenshot my ladder program.

It looks like each "rung" is 6 lines, so I've got more than one output per rung. Is that going to cause problems?

Ok I capitalized some of it, which got rid of some of the problems.

This is the latest. When I try to change tools in mdi the buttons all get disabled except for the coolant bottons and the power button. If I click on the coolant buttons then linuxcnc freezes. I click the power button and then exit but I have to restart linuxcnc before it lets me do anything again.

I may have figured it out. added "setp iocontontrol.0.tool-prepared 1".

There is meant to be a handshake where
iocontrol.0.tool-prepare goes TRUE, stuff happens, then the stuff sets iocontrol.0.tool-prepared TRUE

You can make it happen immediately:
net prep-loop iocontrol.0.tool-prepare goes => iocontrol.0.tool-prepared

The same is true for iocontrol.0.tool-change and ...tool-changed. That often goes through hal_manualtoolchange.

For a lathe you might want to change immediately on the T command, and not have to issue M6 and G43.

I'd like to be able to use the Tormach post without changing it to M6 G43 by hand, or learning how to edit my post.