[FR] (M117 command)

[sandroxGH]

Is possible only for the M117 command have the possibility to print the ":" character on screen,
I wold like to display the estimate printi time for example M117 Time 1:01:00

[Ludy87]

try & Error 😉

Works for me ..

M117 Hi :Gorgous:

[PC-maniak]

Hello i try and ":" not working .. i send M117 Layer : 1/69

and i get "Layer " only.. hmmm

tested on latest /// 1.1.x "bugfix" snapshot Patches after 1.1.9 ///

[igorepi]

M177 with ":" does work when this command is received from UART. Same command doesn't work when printing from SD card, at least in Marlin 1.1.9.

[PC-maniak]

Aa yes i tested from SD card

[InsanityAutomation]

Can you check with bugfix-2.0.x? 1.1.x is EOL and wont be getting more updates. The SD parser may be stripping them out as comments, but 2.0 has had about a year of development on top of 1.1.9....

[PC-maniak]

yes i will try it on weekend on re-arm board
and write the result

[igorepi]

Just checked with latest bugfix-2.0.x - same behavior as in 1.1.9. Everything after ":" is stripping out by SD parser.

[PC-maniak]

Yes same here ->blah:bluh i get only "blah"

[AnHardt]

There is a half a special handling of ':' in https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin/blob/bugfix-2.0.x/Marlin/src/gcode/queue.cpp#L741 when read from SD.
The line is ended, but I can't see special function of ':'.
Try to remove and see what happens.

[sandroxGH]

Can be possible remove from
https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin/blob/1.1.x/Marlin/Marlin_main.cpp#L1189
the "sd_char == ':' " to print correctly on the screen

[AnHardt]

The line seems to belong to a lost/vergotten feature. At least i can neither find documentation nor handling '#' and ':' anywhere else in the code.
Try to comment out the complete line

//          || ((sd_char == '#' || sd_char == ':') && !sd_comment_mode)

Test that and come back with the results. Do you see any regressions or improvements?

[boelle]

so is this a bug or feature request?