Activate outputs manually

[Jotape]

Hi folks!
I'm doing an old Bridgeport 520 interact retrofit with full cncdrive hardware and software.
My question is, is there anyway to activate the outputs manually? Not running a macro.
I'm doing some test with the pneumatic ATC sistem and I need to activate the solenoids one by one to test and check all of them.

Thanks a lot guys!

[dezsoe]

You can use the following macro. Save it to Mxxx.txt into your macro folder, where xxx is a number that already does not exist. (You can safely use 1000..)

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if ((Evar == null) || (Hvar == null) || (Qvar == null))
{
  exec.AddStatusmessage("Parameters: E<port> H<pin> Q<0|1>");
  return;
}

int Eint = Convert.ToInt32(Evar);
int Hint = Convert.ToInt32(Hvar);
int Qint = Convert.ToInt32(Qvar);

if (Qint == 0)
  exec.Clroutpin(Eint, Hint);
else
  exec.Setoutpin(Eint, Hint);


E.g.: M1000 E1 H17 P1 will turn on port 1 pin 17.

[Jotape]

Thanks a lot Csaba!

For a real noob in Macros and programming, can someone explain more or less what each command will do?
I need to start to understand this things, I have an ATC project in front to program

[dezsoe]

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if ((Evar == null) || (Hvar == null) || (Qvar == null))
{
  // if any of the parameters is missing then give error message
  exec.AddStatusmessage("Parameters: E<port> H<pin> Q<0|1>");
  return;
}

// convert the double type values to integer, because the pin switching functions
// work with integer parameters
int Eint = Convert.ToInt32(Evar);
int Hint = Convert.ToInt32(Hvar);
int Qint = Convert.ToInt32(Qvar);

// if Qint = 0 then turn off with Clroutpin(port, pin) else turn on with Setoutpin(port, pin)
if (Qint == 0)
  exec.Clroutpin(Eint, Hint);
else
  exec.Setoutpin(Eint, Hint);


The double? type is a special type of floating point: it can be null if no value is assigned to it, so you can check if the macro was called with the required parameters. See the manual 4.1.2 M-codes.

[sebba]

Hello again,

I checked for "if (myEvar == null)" before and after #Events
Before #Events myEvar have desired value but after #Events it is null ^%$#@@%$$#@@&****

Thank you,
Seb

[dezsoe]

I replied in your topic.

[sebba]

ops, sorry for posting here... my fault... back to my topic