Re: MDI file output

[Ray Henry <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Dan

Bummer about the loss of your favorites and email.  Do you remember hoyt's
list or have a copy, or a place where I can find it?

Ray



At 03:16 AM 2/13/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>While going down the list of things that Hoyt would like to see EMC do,  I
ran
>across this one:
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>file output while in MDI mode- sort of like teach mode while at the control.
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>Not being very good at programming anything, I tried this crude hack in tkemc
>(/usr/local/emc/plat/linux_2_0_36/bin/tkemc)
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>set mditext ""
>set mdi [frame $top.mdi]
>set mdilabel [label $mdi.label -text "MDI:" -width 4 -anchor w]
>set mdientry [entry $mdi.entry -textvariable mditext -takefocus 0 -width 73]
>-----set fileid [open "/usr/local/emc/programs/test.mdi" w+]-----
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>pack $mdi -side top -anchor w
>pack $mdilabel $mdientry -side left
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>bind $mdientry <Return> {$mdientry select range 0 end ; sendMdi
>$mditext;---puts $fileid $mditext;--- set mditext ""}
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>This works well enough, if you remember to save the file before starting a
new
>session. Now I need to put in a button in the GUI that will prompt for a file
>name so that things aren't so crude.  
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>My goal is to work up a crude digitizing/CMM type package for my mill.  I
>figured out that I can get some data out to a file using commands like:
>emc_abs_act_pos  
>Now it's time to have some more fun with it.
>
>Thanks,
>Dan
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