Tool Changer

ArcEye wrote:

Hi

It's quite simple, I have copied all of Johns entry into sim files and the problem is that the <pyvcp> </pyvcp> tags are missing from the .xml file

Good catch! I didn't even think of the pyvcp tags when I copied that part from the much larger xml file.

John

Hi,
I thought on that as well
my xml
is like

<pyvcp>
<labelframe text="Tool Changer">
<font>("Helvetica",16)</font>
    <hbox>
      <button>
      <halpin>"tool-1"</halpin>
      <text>"T1"</text>
      <bd>3</bd>
      </button>
      <button>
      <halpin>"tool-2"</halpin>
      <text>"T2"</text>
      <bd>3</bd>
      </button>
      <button>
      <halpin>"tool-3"</halpin>
      <text>"T3"</text>
      <bd>3</bd>
      </button>
      <button>
      <halpin>"tool-4"</halpin>
      <text>"T4"</text>
      <bd>3</bd>
      </button>
    </hbox>

    <hbox>
      <button>
      <halpin>"tool-5"</halpin>
      <text>"T5"</text>
      <bd>3</bd>
      </button>
      <button>
      <halpin>"tool-6"</halpin>
      <text>"T6"</text>
      <bd>3</bd>
      </button>
      <button>
      <halpin>"tool-7"</halpin>
      <text>"T7"</text>
      <bd>3</bd>
      </button>
      <button>
      <halpin>"tool-8"</halpin>
      <text>"T8"</text>
      <bd>3</bd>
      </button>
    </hbox>
  </labelframe>
</pyvcp>


So the Tags are here
I do get the command unknown and that is not clear how to tackle that one ,..
thx
tk

Did you put the MDI commands in the ini file in the correct place?

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/ini_config..._sub_halui_section_a

John

"unknown command" is a strange error message, as I would expect "pin not found" if it was a problem with the PyVCP or the MDI_COMMANDs.

You can check that the halui.mdi-command and pyvcp pins exist by using Machine->Show HAL Config to bring up the Halshow widget.
My suggestion is that they do.

I wonder if the problem is some sort of windows line-ending problem? Is the interpreter baffled by the "<LF>net" command?

So the Tags are here
I do get the command unknown and that is not clear how to tackle that one

You will just have to zip your complete config folder and attach it.

The code works, as demonstrated, there must be something in the way it is implemented in your configs which is causing the error.

(or as I have just seen Andy say, your files are littered with CR / LF or other control chars if done on a word processor)

regards

A little grepping in the source finds this code that triggered the "Unknown command" error is in src/hal/utils/halcmd.c:

Don't know if this sheds some light on the picture...

John