Gmoccapy Tool Change Dialog

Still on the learning path of Gmoccapy.

Now trying to get the Tool Table to work.
I do not have a tool changer in operation, just manual.

On my Axis GUI, "Tn M6" initiates a pop-up dialog box with a prompt to accept tool number "n", and Continue.
Gmoccapy does not, it just stalls without an error declared.

Dug into the Hal files for Axis and Gmoccapy.
Discovered a Section " ... Use external manual tool change dialog ..." in the Axis file but not in the Gmoccapy file.
Perhaps I entered an incorrect response in the PnCConf Wizard when I generated my Gmoccapy install.

But, my searching found old posts that suggested inclusion of this section in the gmoccapy_postgui.hal file.
My Axis postgui.hal file is empty.
My gmoccapy_postgui.hal contains similar entries, but with differences.

This is my gmoccapy_postgui.hal file:
 #  ---manual tool change signals to gmoccapy's dialog---

net tool-change-request    => gmoccapy.toolchange-change
net tool-change-confirmed  <= gmoccapy.toolchange-changed
net tool-number            => gmoccapy.toolchange-number


Is this correct ?
Is there anything else I should do to get the Tool Change Dialog working ?

John.

Take a look at:

www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html//gui/gmoccapy...l#_tool_related_pins

It seems that you are missing the iocontrol connections. Putting these into the postgui file is correct.

Thanks for that, I will review the documentation and try implementation later today.

John

Well, I have been trying for a couple of hours to get this to work.

Not sure just what should be in gm.hal versus gmoccapy_postgui.hal.

Can someone please post a working solution for both hal files ?

John.

Please post your gm.hal and gmoccapy_postgui.hal so we can have a look. The gmoocapy_postgui.hal should include the lines from the documentation.

Files attached.

 

Postgui file looks fine.

You can remove this block from the gm.hal:

It is not connected to anything but it will remove the popup in the right hand corner when starting linuxcnc. You don't need it anymore because you use the gmoccapy tool change dialog.

Check your ini config file if it includes this line under [HAL], if not add it:

Thanks Wischi, now works like it should.
I had not thought to go back to the ini file ! Getting old !

Not sure what you meant by "popup in the right hand corner".
My install starts clean without a pop-up.

I do get a warning when the code reaches the tool change that the bell is not connected (it isn't).
I will soon get a bell, or de-select it.