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SOT23

Hello ! 

I have written some skill programs that I load at Allegro's startup using the allegro.ilinit file.
I have some funckeys that I have programmed in my env file. 

I would like to program some of my skill functions as funckeys, but I couldn't manage to do that. Does the env file load before the allegro.ilinit ? Does the "axlCmdRegister()" function names I have entered can be used in the env file ? 

Thank you !

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  • mahimag
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    yes, you can use axlcmdregister commands in your funckey. To do so you need to add <load "filename.il"> line in allegro.ilinit in your pcbenv folder. 

    add <funckey m command_name> in your env file.

    Now invoke allegro and you could use m to run the axlcmdregister command because your skill file is loaded at hte time of startup.

    I tried this at my end and it is working fine. 

  • DavidJHutchins
    0 in reply to mahimag

    I have found that you don't really need to register the skill code as a command to run it, for example I have the following alias defined in my env file:

    alias vnp ((axlVisibleLayer "package geometry" nil)(axlVisibleLayer "PACKAGE KEEPIN" nil)(axlVisibleLayer "PACKAGE KEEPOUT" nil)(axlVisibleUpdate t))

    after typing in vnp<enter> at the Command> prompt  the journal file shows the following:

    \i (00:07:38) skill '(axlVisibleLayer "package geometry" nil)(axlVisibleLayer "PACKAGE KEEPIN" nil)(axlVisibleLayer "PACKAGE KEEPOUT" nil)(axlVisibleUpdate t)'

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  • DavidJHutchins
    0 in reply to mahimag

    I have found that you don't really need to register the skill code as a command to run it, for example I have the following alias defined in my env file:

    alias vnp ((axlVisibleLayer "package geometry" nil)(axlVisibleLayer "PACKAGE KEEPIN" nil)(axlVisibleLayer "PACKAGE KEEPOUT" nil)(axlVisibleUpdate t))

    after typing in vnp<enter> at the Command> prompt  the journal file shows the following:

    \i (00:07:38) skill '(axlVisibleLayer "package geometry" nil)(axlVisibleLayer "PACKAGE KEEPIN" nil)(axlVisibleLayer "PACKAGE KEEPOUT" nil)(axlVisibleUpdate t)'

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  • SOT23
    0 in reply to DavidJHutchins

    This is very interesting !

    I couldn't manage to make the skill work :p it says unbound variable PACKAGE), but the .jrl file does show that the parenthesis were interpreted as skill code. Maybe I will try to convert my smaller programs to aliases.

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