Post Processor coding

[Thee Byte™ 779]

Hi all,

I've been practicing the post processing writing a bit this weekend.

I noticed the user defined names in the posts I see are a bit unclear as to what they do a lot of shortened names,

For my posts that I'm writing I think I might use a camel case like we do for the chook and nethook programming.

In the following example the user defines variables are written like this

stringOpenParentheses    : "("   #String for open parenthesis "("
stringCloseParentheses   : ")"   #String for close parenthesis ")"
stringDelimiter   : "|"   #String for delimiter 

I think that makes it more clear to the end user what everything does. JM2c

[POST_VERSION] #DO NOT MOVE OR ALTER THIS LINE# V23.00 P0 E1 W23.00 T1596718960 M23.00 I0 O1
# Post Name           : CUSTOM POST
# Product             : Mastercam
# Machine Name        : MACHINE
# Control Name        : CONTROL
# Description         : MASTERCAM POST
# Subprograms         : YES
# Executable          : MP v11.0
# Post Revision       : 0

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# -------- Start of Miscellaneous Strings -------- #

stringOpenParentheses    : "("   #String for open parenthesis "("
stringCloseParentheses   : ")"   #String for close parenthesis ")"
stringDelimiter   : "|"   #String for delimiter

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# -------- Stat of "Header Info" -------- #

pheader$         #Call before start of file

      "%", e$
      !spaces$, spaces$ = 0
      spathnc$ = ucase(spathnc$)
      smcname$ = ucase(smcname$)
      stck_matl$ = ucase(stck_matl$)
      snamenc$ = ucase(snamenc$)
      stringOpenParentheses, "MCX FILE - ", *smcpath$, *smcname$, *smcext$, stringCloseParentheses, e$
      stringOpenParentheses, "NC FILE - ", *spathnc$, *snamenc$, *sextnc$, stringCloseParentheses, e$
      stringOpenParentheses, "MATERIAL - ", *stck_matl$, stringCloseParentheses, e$
      spaces$ = prv_spaces$

# -------- End of Header Info -------- #



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# -------- Start of "Comment Info" -------- #

pcomment$        #(must call pcomment2 if booleans)
      pcomment2

pcomment2       #Output Comment from manual entry
      !spaces$, spaces$ = 0
      scomm$ = ucase (scomm$)
      if gcode$ = 1008, stringOpenParentheses, scomm$, stringCloseParentheses, e$  #Operation comment
      if gcode$ = 1051, stringOpenParentheses, scomm$, stringCloseParentheses, e$  #Machine name
      if gcode$ = 1052, stringOpenParentheses, scomm$, stringCloseParentheses, e$  #Group comment
      if gcode$ = 1053, stringOpenParentheses, scomm$, stringCloseParentheses, e$  #Group name
      if gcode$ = 1054, stringOpenParentheses, scomm$, stringCloseParentheses, e$  #File Descriptor
      spaces$ = prv_spaces$

      ##### Stop custom changes #####

# -------- End of "Comment Info" -------- #



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# -------- Start of "Start Of File" Info -------- #
         
psof$            #Start of file for non-zero tool number

        ##### Custom changes allowed below #####
        

peof0$           #End of file for tool zero
      peof$
	  
	  
	  
#End of file for non-zero tool

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# -------- Start of "End Of File" Info -------- #

peof$ 
         #Write the G28 A0. Line
         n$, "G28", "A0.", e$    
         #Write the % EOF Line
         n$, "M30", e$           #Write the M30 Line
         #mergesub$
         #clearsub$
         #mergeaux$
         #clearaux$
         "%", e$   	  
	  
#End Region

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[JParis 1,195]

If a variable has a $ at the end, it's a system variable and that name cannot be changed

Those of us who have dug around in posts for awhile know what the other variables are...

If you were going to write your own post engine, yeah I can see it...if you're modding existing posts, it probably doesn't make a lot of sense to rewrite a huge portion of what already works.

JM2C

[Thee Byte™ 779]

Just now, JParis said:

If a variable has a $ at the end, it's a system variable and that name cannot be changed

Yeah I knew that going in, I was purely speaking on the User Defined varables.

1 minute ago, JParis said:

If you were going to write your own post engine, yeah I can see it...if you're modding existing posts, it probably doesn't make a lot of sense to rewrite a huge portion of what already works.

Yeah I was thinking more for new posts, updating existing posts using find and replace could be error prone..