How to connect buttons and files.

Hi

I'm augmenting my mill and started to use pyvcp. I think I understand now hoe to do...

I have pyvcp loading midi commands via some buttons.. ( used the homing examples from this forum ) Works fine.

Now what I want is to realize is to load different "functionalities" via calling files

I want to load on button-push files in the format .ngc, but also .py or .jpg

What I want is to have some files that do easy functions like "scrubbing a area of X * Y " or drillinf a "area of holes " or what ever I will find usefull in future.

I think I have to use the G-code o but i was not succesfull until now.

Can somybody give me an idea ..

THX Mike

P.S.
When finished I intend to publish my solution, so everybody can profit

THX John

I saw that ngcgui conversation in the last time, but as I understood that is an alternative gui.

and cant' remember that there was a description how to load/ecxecute files....

Or do I miss something

Mike

Besides the ngcgui

You might want to look here...
wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?Simple_EMC_G-Code_Generators

and

wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?Oword

You can use a button either physical or pyvpc to call a MDI command and that MDI command can run a subroutine with the O word.
The file has to be a subroutine and be in the correct directory.

I do not believe that this worked in earlier versions of EMC.

Rick G

Hi Rick

the link to the Phyton is exactly what I want.
I want to start them via pressing on a pyvyp button.

After reading the doc you and John pointed out, I doubth that I cab use MDI commands ??

Is there eventually a halui command ( that I missed to see ) that can invoke a file ?

Mike

P.S.
I'm aware that I can go and load a .py file via " the normal way" but I think a button would be "nice and sexy"