Signal from Axis-GUI indicating the selecte axis

Hello,

I try to connect a jog-wheel to my system. I get the counts. However I would need a signal from the AXIS-GUI indicating me which axis is selected. In my logic this shold be

halui.axis.x.select

in the case of the x-axis. However no matter which Axis is select in the AXIS-GUI this signal always remains false. I'm using LinuxCNC 2.8.1.
Any help greatly appreciated.....

Regards,

Marc

Try feedback pin halui.axis.0.is-selected

This won't work.
Linuxcnc does not have an global idea of selected axis. Each GUI has it's own idea of selected axis.

For AXIS try this:
axisui.jog.x

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/gui/axis.html#_user_hal_pins

Thanks for the input.

axisui.jog.x

provides me the desired signal. I could also successfully wire it like

net axis-select-x halui.axis.x.select axisui.jog.x

However if I put this in my HAL-file I get the error on startup

Pin 'axisui.jog.x' does not exist

Looks like the axis-pins are not yet available when the HAL file is run....

Regards,

Marc

Glad it worked for you.
The command needs to go in the postgui.hal file.

Chris

Great thanks! Didn't get beyond the main HAL-file yet....
postgui.hal however sounds quite suggestive....

Thanks again!