halshow with PathPilot 2

Wow, that is a lot less work!

It was three months ago when I was looking at this, my ageing brain has discarded the details of the changes.

I had two aims, 1) have a working halshow from Pathpilot and 2) being able to run the various hal tools from a terminal without starting PathPilot.

Have you tested my 2nd aim, the hal tools in a terminal without PathPilot running?

Change these
to
that should do the same thing
I haven't checked it but if that was all you had to do that change to PATH should be all that's needed

Hi,

I'm also trying to get Halshow running for PathPilot on a non-Tormach machine. Halscope and Halmeter are working.

I have copied halshow.tcl from another Linuxcnc installation running on a 64 bit machine, as far as I can see it is the same version as the one available at git repo.

However, I cannot seem to find the lines of code:

#!/usr/bin/tclsh8.6
source /home/operator/repos/pathpilot3/linuxcnc/tcl/bin/halshow.tcl
in the code.

In my halshow.tcl the 1st few lines of code looks like:

#!/bin/sh
# the next line restarts using emcsh \
exec $LINUXCNC_EMCSH "$0" "$@"

###############################################################
# Description: halshow.tcl
# This file, shows a running hal configuration
# and has menu for modifying and tuning
#
# Author: Raymond E Henry
# License: GPL Version 2
#
# Copyright (c) 2006-2009 All rights reserved.
###############################################################
# FIXME -- empty mod entry widgets after execute
# FIXME -- please hal param naming conventions aren't
###############################################################

# Load the linuxcnc.tcl file, which defines variables for various useful paths
source [file join [file dirname [info script]] .. linuxcnc.tcl]

Hope you can help, thank you very much

Danie

I think you are editing at the wrong file.

The file to edit is "haltcl" not "halshow.tcl".

Ken

Hi Ken,

I changed the text file halshow to:

#!/usr/bin/tclsh8.6
source ~/tmc/tcl/bin/halshow.tcl

Now it is working fine, thank you very much Danie

A big thank you for documenting this, it will help greatly once I start enhancing my Pathpilot setup on a shop-built gantry mill/router I am finishing up.

Gerrit