XY Plotter/CNC style interpolation project. Need great deal of help

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i think its getting stuck in this line:
while(!digitalRead(xStopMax) && !digitalRead(yStopMin) && s<numSteps); until you press the stop button nothing will happen; it will loop on that line. "s<numSteps" will always be true since "int s=0;" right above it, unless numSteps would happen to be 0

void moveNE(int numSteps){    
  int s=0; 
  while(!digitalRead(xStopMax) && !digitalRead(yStopMin) && s<numSteps); 
  for(int s=0; s<numSteps; s++)
  {
    yAxis.step(-1);
    xAxis.step(1);
  }
  xPos += numSteps;
  yPos -= numSteps;

  //check where we are
  Serial.print("x position: ");
  Serial.println(xPos);
  Serial.print("y position: ");
  Serial.println(yPos);
}

also, as far as i know that while syntax is incorrect for what you are trying to do and the for was wrong.

-the 's' int was declared separately for the for loop than the moveNE function/while loop
-the while line wouldnt work because: you had a ';' at the end so its kind of like a function and so it would only check once before the for loop(first thing i mentioned in this post).

look here:

void moveNE(int numSteps){    
  int s=0; 
  while(!digitalRead(xStopMax) && !digitalRead(yStopMin) && s<numSteps) //checks for stop switches and numStep count each step of steppers.
  { 
    yAxis.step(-1);
    xAxis.step(1);
    s++;
  }

  xPos += numSteps;
  yPos -= numSteps;

  //check where we are
  Serial.print("x position: ");
  Serial.println(xPos);
  Serial.print("y position: ");
  Serial.println(yPos);
}

sorry if those explanation are bad, its kinda hard to write out.