need help with HAL - toggle settings with one button

[DrStein99]

I'm having trouble sorting over the lengthy docs can someone please help ?

I've already got everything setup w/ the steppers and got past the external MPG tutorial, so I can use a jog-dial on an axis, which does work. The example unfortunately wants me to use a MUX encoder to toggle between axis and jog resolutions.

What I want to do, is assign a push-button to select the MPG jog resolution (.1, .01, and .001) - and another pushbutton to assign the axis (x, y, or z). So, it would default to the first value, and each time I push the button it iterates thru the list looping back to the first.

Is there an example somewhere or can someone help me figure out how to do this please? Thanks.

[chester88]

You could do this using classicladder
connect your button (through CL) to a counter
then have outputs that respond to each count of that counter.
similar idea to this:

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emc...dexing_counter

If you know how to program you could also build a custom HAL component.
see the manual.

[DrStein99]

I managed to figure out how to toggle the MPG resolution with one button, it took me two days of studying, trial and error:

# The following is the 4-value select / pushbutton !
net scale1 toggle.3.in <= pyvcp.jogResB1 
net scale2 toggle.3.out => pyvcp.mux4Led1 toggle.4.in mux4.0.sel0
net scale3 toggle.4.out => pyvcp.mux4Led2 mux4.0.sel1

# sets the jog value for the mpg
net pend-scale axis.0.jog-scale <= mux4.0.out
net pend-scale axis.1.jog-scale
net pend-scale axis.2.jog-scale

Now the next / last one I am stuck on is a single-button selector for axis-enable. Yes, I could make a HAL component, I was actually starting to study that section as well. Looks like either / or option is a good deal of time invested - I'm just a few more projects away from completing this machine.