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Created Date: January 09,2012
Created By: Ryan_Poethke
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I'm running DS v.5.3 and since V3, I 've been hoping with each release that the number of characters allotted for naming coils, outputs, and variables would get larger. It's hard to give descriptive names with so few characters. I can understand, in the good ol ' days of DOS and WIN9x that the character length might be an issue, but those days are long gone. I can name variables anything I want in the C-more software. PLEASE make it possible in DirectSoft. Along the lines of more space, please let comments in the rungs be ANY length. I find myself running out of space many times. Granted, I'm pretty verbose sometimes, but I like to help out the next guy who has to decipher my program (most times, that's me, 6 months later). Thanks, -Ryan Poethke
Created Date: January 09,2012
Created by: Bob S BN
I 've been hoping with each release that the number of characters allotted for naming coils, outputs, and variables would get larger. It's hard to give descriptive names with so few characters. -Ryan Poethke
I second the motion.
Created Date: January 09,2012
Created by: LBM
3rd that!
Long over do.
Created Date: January 10,2012
Created by: marksji
Agreed....
Created Date: January 10,2012
Created by: Adisharr
Well they 've come a long way since I first started using Omron's horrible DOS based LSS programming package.
They gave you two lines of four characters for names :p Of course when you printed it out, it showed up as one line of eight lol.
Created Date: January 10,2012
Created by: KB1GNI
More characters would always be nice, but it's not too bad as-is.
I got into Koyo through the old GE Logicmaster software, anybody remember that? Before then was TISoft for the 520/530 series. How far we 've come...
Created Date: January 10,2012
Created by: Bob S BN
the old GE Logicmaster software, anybody remember that?
Sure do. Seems to me there was some game to play with the number of characters in a word as to how they would display in the ladder on the four lines available. I don't remember how many characters per line though.
And I haven't had a computer that would run that DOS software for 10 years or so...
Created Date: January 12,2012
Created by: GKiser
We are planning something like this for a future release. Thanks for the input! :cool:
Created Date: January 14,2012
Created by: bcarlton
Since this is not dependent on the CPU look forward to great thing from Host as soon as the MX/MP CPU development becomes mature. Actually you may want to convert over.
Created Date: January 09,2012
Created by: Ryan_Poethke
I'm running DS v.5.3 and since V3, I 've been hoping with each release that the number of characters allotted for naming coils, outputs, and variables would get larger. It's hard to give descriptive names with so few characters. I can understand, in the good ol ' days of DOS and WIN9x that the character length might be an issue, but those days are long gone. I can name variables anything I want in the C-more software. PLEASE make it possible in DirectSoft.
Along the lines of more space, please let comments in the rungs be ANY length. I find myself running out of space many times. Granted, I'm pretty verbose sometimes, but I like to help out the next guy who has to decipher my program (most times, that's me, 6 months later).
Thanks,
-Ryan Poethke