Problem with Run

Thanks Andy.
I took a look at my axis_manualtoolchange.hal file (attached) to see if it seemed correct in light of your message. Not being a programmer, I don't really know if it is.

What I do know is that when I ran a program with T1M6 in it, I expected a dialog box to pop up and give me a chance to change/insert a tool, hit ok and continue run. It never happened (program went to never never land and with no way to get out of it, stayed there). I suspect that the real culprit is no hal pin connected the manual tool change feature. My fault in using a canned .ini file from Jon Elson and not setting up the tool change feature.

My .ini (attached) does not appear to have a call for manual tool change nor tool prep.

If you wouldn't mind, what should the additional code lines look like?

You aren't referencing the axis_manualtoolchange.hal file in your ini file.
You would need to add the lineto the [HAL] section of your ini file for axis_manualtoolchange.hal to have any effect on your configuration.

Todd and Andy:
Thanks for the suggestion. I added to .ini but that did not solve the run problem. A dialog box does pop up when emc2 starts (references tool change, how you can resize the box etc., and disappears shortly after) but the dialog for a tool change never appears when running a g-code program. "Run" obviously then does not operate.

Is there something else missing in the .ini?

I compared your manualtoolchange.hal with my old parallelport config. The commands in my working file are in opposite order. I don't know if this matters. Just an idea

loadusr -W hal_manualtoolchange
net tool-change iocontrol.0.tool-change => hal_manualtoolchange.change
net tool-changed iocontrol.0.tool-changed <= hal_manualtoolchange.changed
net tool-number iocontrol.0.tool-prep-number => hal_manualtoolchange.number
net tool-prepare-loopback iocontrol.0.tool-prepare => iocontrol.0.tool-prepared

Great! Thanks. I will try your version tomorrow.

I tried your version of the tool change file, but it did not change the emc2 behavior from the previous tool file. Still no tool popup window when the g code had a T1M6 call and Run did not work correctly. There must be something else I am missing.

No big problem on g code with only 1 tool. Just remove the T1M6 call from the g code and everything runs fine.