Re: Fixes to Xemc graphical user interface

[Jon Elson <jmelson-at-artsci.wustl.edu>]

Fred Proctor wrote:

> EMC folks,
>
> I put a new release of the EMC code on the FTP site. Most notable is a
> fix for the problem with xemc, in which clicks on the little X box at
> the top right of popup windows killed the whole controller.

Ahhh, thank you!  I have pretty well trained myself not to do that, but
I'm glad you got that fixed.

>
> The whole release is at
> ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/emc/emcsoft/linux_2_0_36, as the file
> emc-04-Mar-1999.tgz.

Is that 4-MAR or 4-MAY ?

While I'm sending this message, I am also interested in adding another
axis (a rotary one) to the 3 linear axes.  Right now, I don't need
coordinated motion with it, but someday that would be nice.  I
gather from reading the code that the motion control and interpreter
pretty much handle this already, but as far as I can tell, the
user interface is XYZ only.  If you will be adding this, I might
make the suggestion that the name of the additional axes be
a parameter in the .ini file, too.  For instance, depending on how
you mount an indexing head, the name of the axis could be
A, B or C.

Thanks for all the great effort on EMC,

Jon