kewakl (Customer) asked a question.

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[RESOLVED] PAC Suite Ver 4.7.0.47 GUI (Ladder Editor) hang in Debug mode

Ver 4.7.0.47 

GUI hangs in DEBUG mode -- with this project.

On simulator and P1-540 hardware, monitor mode or not.

 

Reproducible through terminate and restart software.

My other v4.7 projects do not cause this.

 

The software seems to be receiving the navigation messaging -- if I scroll up (mouse, arrow, Ctrl-Home, PgUp) after the hang, the gui does navigate up when leaving Debug mode.

 

I have a system report ready.

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  • ADC Community_02 (Automationdirect.com)

    The issue of debug freezing has been fixed and will be in the next release of software. Our developers found that there was an empty rung causing the issue. If you delete rung 1.3 before transferring the project will fix the issue.

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  • ADC Community_02 (Automationdirect.com)

    Can you PM me your system report? I will load this up and try to duplicate. Thanks!

      • ADC Community_02 (Automationdirect.com)

        I can duplicate the issue. I have put in a trouble ticket with our software team to begin investigating. Thanks!

      • kewakl (Customer)

        Another observation that I can now document:

        Entering and exiting Debug Mode seems to show ghost task contents in an empty task.

        In the 'Ghost task contents' video, I start in task "TOTALLY EMPTY" showing only an END instruction.

        I navigate to the task "CRC_Modbus" -- this is the source of the ghost code.

        I navigate back to "TOTALLY EMPTY" task and proceed to Debug mode.

        Upon exiting Debug mode, the TOTALLY EMPTY task now shows the code from the CRC_Modbus task.

        Navigating away from TOTALLY EMPTY task and then back clears the ghost code.

         

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      • kewakl (Customer)

        More testing seems to show the code might not be ghost code. It may be that the task/title/toolbar are not updating -- so that the CRC_Modbus code window contents is showing but the TOTALLY EMPTY window/title/toolbar is topmost. Confusing, but that is what it seems to be doing.

        In the video, selecting Window.Next Window seems to confirm the above statement.

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      • ADC Community_02 (Automationdirect.com)

        The issue of debug freezing has been fixed and will be in the next release of software. Our developers found that there was an empty rung causing the issue. If you delete rung 1.3 before transferring the project will fix the issue.

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      • kewakl (Customer)

        That does fix the freeze.

         

        Thank you again.

 

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