Docklight News

Docklight to the rescue when the pressure is on Recently we created a demo for the fullmo MovingCap position drives and a max GmbH linear axis . Such a toothed belt axis can feature excellent repeat accuracy, if designed and manufactured with great care. To showcase this, we had a Helios Preisser digital indicator with RS232 data interface at hand. Plus a small leaflet for documentation and close to zero time for the integration. Helios Preisser distance measurement using fullmo Kickdrive and Docklight DLL Ready for the show - rapid prototyping with Docklight and Kickdrive leaves you time to relax.  The measurement gauge integration into our demo took me about an hour: Around 20 minutes of manual testing using Docklight and a standard RS232/USB adapter, and another 40 minutes for coding the integration into the actual demo UI. Docklight takes care of all the tricky parts here. The resulting demo was a Kickdrive UI Panel application. Kickdrive allows crea...

Just before going into summer holiday mode, we released free maintenance updates for Docklight and Docklight Scripting . Here is what we improved before the outdoors became too tempting... A lot of attention went into flawless Windows 10 compatibility, especially when accessing  USB HID Custom Class devices or COM device drivers with input data buffer > 4KB. In addition, a Docklight script (.pts file) can now be loaded and started automatically along with the Docklight project (.ptp file). If your project is called "robotest.ptp", simply name your script file "robotest_auto.pts" and make sure it is located in the same folder. This is especially useful for any script that with event-based processing using Sub On_Send() or Sub On_Receive() . The Docklight main screen underwent some fine-tuning. Finally there is mouse wheel support for the Send Sequence and Receive Sequence lists. Send and Receive Sequence lists are now protected against accidental reord...