Re: TCL/TK GUI and EMC API

> From: David L Anderson <daveland@...>
>
> Fred et al
>
> I have a simple TCL/TK CNC control panel GUI that I was playing with for my

> own use. I sent it out serveral months ago to Fred Proctor and some others
> on the rt-linux NG. It is just a simple hack that at this point has no
> interface to EMC. IF I could get some assistance in the details of the EMC

> interface, I could try to get it to function. I am currently trying to get
> EMC running after abandoning my own attemps to write stepper motor control
> code (I learned a lot, Fred must work hard to get this stuff going!!!)
> I'll dig up the TCL/TK code and place it on my web page this weekend.

I was wondering if you got around to uploading this as I'd love to see it!

> From: Ron Ginger <ginger@...>
>
> I am very interested in EMC. Id like to tinker with the GUI part of the
> system- Ive done a Mill Power kind of clone alerady under Win95, Id like
> to move that to EMC, maybe with Tk or Java. I assume there is a
> programmer interface- API- soewhere in EMC that can be used this way,
> but so far I havent found any docs about it.

Ron, meet Dave. Dave, Ron. Now that you two have been properly introduced
perhaps you'd like to work together on this ;)

While I'm asking for free software previews I though I'd ask if you could let
me look at your MillPower clone as well.

I sympathize with both of your concerns about the state of the EMC
documentation. I'll ask Fred Proctor next time I speak with him if there's a
good explanation of how to implement an EMC gui and communicate with the
motion control and I/O tasks. Also, in the very near future I'll try to make
a start on an EMC user's manual with this and other useful data in it. We'll
need better docs if the EMC is ever going to achieve its potential
popularity.

Matt Shaver
mshaver@...