keystroke as a hal pin?

Hi,


I'm wondering if is possible to assign a keyboard keystroke as an HAL pin? My objective is to use 3 keys, witch one will call a subroutine.

the first will open a log file, the second to log the X and Y coordinates, and finally the third to close the log file. If I can use this with the present keyboard keys it will be great.


Thanks

What screen are you using?
Gmoccapy or Gscreen are easier to add this to then AXIS

Chris M

I'm using Axis screen.

I prefer a solution that don't depends on the screen. The machine has already a custom panel on axis, and do the complete migration will involve some work...

The solution will always depend on the screen, if you wish to use the standard keyboard.
If you wish to use some other external buttons then it can be outside of the running screen.

That being said it is not impossible with AXIS it's just not many people know it well enough - including me.

Chris M

with thios post help :
www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum...gging?start=10#62208

and seeing the axis.py file

I add to my ini file configuration on the display area:

and the keystroke.py contains this code:


so, at this point, if I have some mdi command on the "buffer"



but I cant find any "commands.send_mdi" that have a string as an argument. or a way to write on the "buffer".

João

jtc wrote: but I cant find any "commands.send_mdi" that have a string as an argument. or a way to write on the "buffer".

Does this help?
www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/python-interface.html