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Accu representation

In monitor mode the system tries to display the accus in an appropriate format. This leads to

an often changing representation of the accus. Here you can default a fixed format.

 

View

Here you can adjust the default representation (FBD,LAD or STL) for new blocks.

But you can change the representation for each network separately afterwards.

 

General

 

Auto save

When a block is closed it is saved without confirmation.

 

Compile on close

When a block is closed it is downloaded automatically to the PLC without confirmation.

So you know for sure that all (except of the still edited ones) blocks on the hard disk correspond with the ones in the PLC-memory.

This adjustment is annoying if you want to close an errornous block. But you can still deselect it at that time. If the check box is selected saving happens automatically because just saved blocks can be downloaded to the PLC.

 

Monitor mode

Do not erase when STL monitoring

The RLO, the operand-state and the accus do not correspond with the current values in overjumped lines, but they keep their value of the last execution.

It is best to display these lines in a different color. Although it seems to be easy it was not possible for us to do it in STL yet. That is why we decided to delete the monitor values of the lines which are not valid anymore. But sometimes you definitely want to know which values were written into the accus. That is why we have created this check box with that you can prevent the deleting of lines which are not up to date anymore (But see also: Breakpoints).

 

Progress bar when monitoring

The blue progress bar in the lower right corner when monitoring the program execution can be switched off.

The blue progress bar changes if the first line in the network is executed sometimes. This information prevents that you wait for a special event that will never happen because the machine simulation stopped, the PLC crashed or a block end was programmed before. But sometimes this progress bar can be annoying, so you can decide by yourself whether you want to see it or not.

 

Rewire

If you modify the address of an element in the adress table it is usually desirable that the corresponding addresses in the PLC program are adjusted automatically.

Here you can select if this should be done ever, never or after confirmation.