Re: MDI file output

[Dan Falck <dfalck-at-sprynet.com>]

Ray,
Here is Hoyt's web site.  It describes his software.  For the life of me, I
can't figure out if it's just text based or not.  It seems kind of vague.  


http://www.freeyellow.com/members/belfab/belfab.html

I've had the flu all week and missed a lot of work.  Sorry that I haven't
contributed much lately, but I just haven't had the energy lately.  I'm
starting to get over it, so hopefully I can get charged up again and try
out some more TCL and such.  

Thanks,
Dan



At 03:53 PM 2/25/00 -0500, you wrote:
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>Dan
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>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?
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>Ray
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>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+]-----
>>
>>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.  
>>
>>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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