re:CncPRO pendant was Re: virtual hand jive and human factors

Alan,

Could you email me (or post) the details of your pendant. Willing to
share the code, etc.?

Ballendo

P.S. What is the "one little exception"?

>One of the things I wanted was a remote pendent to move the table
>around without having to fumble with the IBM keyboard.
>I have a PIC read a number of switches and then output characters in
>RS232 form as required. A simple TSR loaded before CNCPro accepts
>the serial bytes from a COM port and then "stuffs" them into the
>keyboard buffer.
>As CNCPro appears to be written "properly" - using either DOS or BIOS
>calls to read the keyboard - and as my TSR also "obeys the rules",
>this trick has ( with one little exception ) been working fine.
>Alan