yep. Me too. Sucks. Bryan

Don't know if this will help but I've had some good luck with the postOps() function in combination with the run_post_exe_dll() function to create a custimized multipost chook. postOps in M_NC.H post_dlg_settings/post_settings in M_NCVARS.H A very simplified outline of what it does is: 1) Use postOps/post_settings to get some limited user interaction (if needed). We've got the chook tweaked enough that this is now turned off by default. 2) Use postOps/post_settings to generate the text .nci file. 3. Run the heck out of run_post_exe_dll() using the nci file against various postprocessors. Bryan

got one Bryan

job_setup is a global variable just set/get as you would normal variables. code: /* stock lengths */ job_setup.x = 5.25; job_setup.y = 3.0; job_setup.z = 1.0; Also, One time, I had a small problem with the stock not immediately being drawn right after setting xyz like above and I had manualy recalculate job_setup.stock_ln myself. Don't remember why anymore it was several years ago. Bryan

Adding, modifying contours operation_manager with OPMGR_ADD in M_ASSOC.H Don't forget tools also: tool_manager in M_ASSOC.H ProductDevelopmentGuy put some chaining examples on the ftp site in the chooks directory. See this post http://www.emastercam.com/ubb/ultimatebb.p...t=008781#000010 Bryan

quote: I just though that MC would have or should have a much simpleler way. Lol. Through chooks it's usually 10x more complicated. Job Setup: Job setup is the variable job_setup in M_NCVARS.H From struct assoc_setup defined in M_ATYPES.h Bryan

JohnA, Thank you for your service to our country. Bryan

The Forum (What Bullines said) A few chook developers and Several MC employees participate in the forum. If you have any specific questions please post them. Bryan

Nauseating. Bryan

Did you do a virus scan? Spybot recently went to 1.3. If you're running 1.2 try upgradding to 1.3 and rerun. Other than that shoot the IT guy. Bryan

Saw this over on Gizmodo thought it was cool. http://www.thechipfactory.co.uk//pages/bwil/bwilfile.php Seem like somebody with MC Router and some freetime could make a killing at the local craft fares. Bryan

http://www.mozilla.org/ http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ Bryan

This has helped me. Use one of those free online calenders like calendar.yahoo.com. Set up a repeating event and have it email you a couple weeks and a week (or couple days) before. It actually saved my father-in-laws xxxx a while back. I asked him what he got his wife for their anniversary. Of course this was the day of. Never saw a man run for the door so fast. Bryan

+1 Bryan

Sounds like it will be a cool program. And save tons of time. Feel free to post questions to forum. There's are several patient (and I might add saintly) people who helped me get started with chooks. quote: but I was told that in c-hooks you have access to the entire MC library and more. Ha. Thats funny. Not true, but funny. You have access to a lot of the variables and functions. Many of them quite powerful. That tied in with 30ish years of c/c++ and other programming libraries out there you can do miraculous things. But (there's always a but) the Mastercam SDK does not not give access to everything. The sdk is crippled in some very odd ways. The why's and wherefore's of which I won't even try to speculate on. Again, good luck. Bryan

Girus, Out of curiosity what are you trying to do? Bryan

Also of note "crnote" Create-Drafting-Note won't work if you're in the Main Menu. Any other menu it works fine. Reported it back in October. (Design Bug #24235. ) This might have been fixed in one of the maintenance releases but I have no way to check that. We no have maintenance. Bryan

MC bug. Seems to be an invalid function for some reason. If you add it to the toolbar Mastercam screams "Invalid function code" Tim you can send it to [email protected] but they seem hesitent to fix anything in v9 lately with MCX coming out. Bryan

Bryan +1

Mine's better. Of course, I'm super biased. Bryan

Rekd, Check your email. Bryan

ye$ End of July. Bryan

Ok stick a fork in me I'm done. This will be the last update for a long time. My tempory reprieve from another project is over. I'll be working on that for the near future. Updated file: http://www.ivanxxxx.com/mmouse_20040607.zip Changes: 1) Now works with Logitech Mice (my bad) (thanks Code_Breaker and others) 2) Menu Limit of 500 items is removed. Sort of. I've re-coded the memory for the menu items. In theory they are limited only by your systems memory. In practice, I've limited them to approximately 3000 items. If you need more than 3000 items you need to get a life. Also of note, the Setview (Name Plane) module has a limit of 100 items. If you need more, see previous comment. Thanks everybody for the help and positive comments. Bryan

I'm getting positive results from the Logitec people. I'll try to get another release out in a day or two. Bryan

I have a test chook for Logitec out to Code_Breaker. If anyone else using a Logitech mouse is having problems and you would like to try the test chook please email me at my ivanxxxx email address before noon (eastern) today. Bryan