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Created Date: February 18,2006
Created By: yura
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Just emotions. I 'v just finished (ooh) my project with F0-CP128. Successfully. BASIC's bugs almost killed me. Considering that I didn't use 'ABM Commander ' except for down/uploading program texts. The Greatest bug i found is that BASIC interpreter 'eats ' space-characters in some cases and it got me crazy. Ex. You type : 1000 IF NOT S06_C(0) THEN ... that's what you 've got : 1000 IF NOTS06_C(0) THEN... then : 2000 IF ERRNO THEN ... becomes 2000 IF ERRNOTHEN.... I guess it's not the whole list... 1000 i=9 1010 print1 S06_C(i) - > > > Error !!! but i is a number so i must have S06_C(11) value !!! Sorry, FACTS, it was my 1st experience. May be I will love F0-CP128...
Created Date: February 20,2006
Created by: FACTSTech
Sorry that you had problems. The F0-CP128 does have a unique syntax. When the listed program line does not look like you expect this is generally a sign of bad syntax or keywords embedded in variable names. See chapter 2 of the FA-BASIC-M manual for interpreter rules.
The NOT operater requires parenthesis so it should be written:
1000 IF NOT(S06_C(0)) THEN...
In line 2000 enclosing the variable name ERRNO in parenthesis will give the expected result:
2000 IF (ERRNO) THEN ...
The S06_C() statement directly reads/writes C bits in the PLC CPU. C9 does not exist in the PLC CPU so the statement S06_C(9) generates a 'Bad Argument ' error. THE 05/06 PLC CPUs use Octal to reference data types so any address with the digit 8 or 9 is invalid in the standard usage of S06_.
Created Date: February 22,2006
Created by: yura
Thanks. Last question. Is there any utility to download program text from PC to Abm from commandline or Abm Commander is the one-and-only? http://forum1.automationdirect.com/board/frown.gif
Created Date: February 22,2006
Created by: FACTSTech
You are correct, you need to use ABM commander to load/save programs from disk. There is not a command line utility to do this function.
Created Date: February 18,2006
Created by: yura
Just emotions. I 'v just finished (ooh) my project with F0-CP128. Successfully. BASIC's bugs almost killed me. Considering that I didn't use 'ABM Commander ' except for down/uploading program texts. The Greatest bug i found is that BASIC interpreter 'eats ' space-characters in some cases and it got me crazy.
Ex. You type :
1000 IF NOT S06_C(0) THEN ...
that's what you 've got :
1000 IF NOTS06_C(0) THEN...
then :
2000 IF ERRNO THEN ...
becomes
2000 IF ERRNOTHEN....
I guess it's not the whole list...
1000 i=9
1010 print1 S06_C(i) ->>> Error !!!
but i is a number so i must have S06_C(11) value !!!
Sorry, FACTS, it was my 1st experience. May be I will love F0-CP128...