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Tom | 3 Dec 07:49

Re: loadrt abs component not working

Chris & Stephen,

Thank you guys, that did it.

Although I read the Hal manual and did the tutorials, I am still grappling with the notion of threads. I
appreciate your help!

Tom

--- On Tue, 12/2/08, Chris Radek <chris@...> wrote:
From: Chris Radek <chris@...>
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] loadrt abs component not working
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@...>
Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 6:58 PM

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:48:34AM +0000, Tom wrote:
> 
> Looking at the Halmeter pins/signals, the abs component shows up with 3
pins but
> integer values that appear on the abs.0.in pin never come out on the
abs.0.out
> pin. Zip, nada, no output. Is is as if the abs component needs a parameter
or
> argument that I am not aware of to make it function. Is there something I
am
> missing here?

You need to add the abs component to a thread for it to run.

something like addf abs.0 servo-thread.

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John Thornton | 3 Dec 13:18

Re: loadrt abs component not working

By coincidence I was just working on adding a bit to the manual on components and threads 
and how to make it all work together.

John

On 2 Dec 2008 at 22:49, Tom wrote:

> Chris & Stephen,
> 
> Thank you guys, that did it.
> 
> Although I read the Hal manual and did the tutorials, I am still
> grappling with the notion of threads. I appreciate your help!
> 
> Tom
> 
> 

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