ALPHA-VISION® content: Start-Window

Start-Window

SUMMARY

This document gives information to the SoftPLC7 Start-Window.

CONTENTS

1. General
2. The pull-down menu 'File'
3. The pull-down menu 'View'
4. The pull-down menu 'Extras'
5. The Pull-down Menu '?'
6. Control Elements
7. Indicators PS
8. Indicators CPU

General

After starting the SoftPLC7 program a small dialog window, similar an original PLC, is shown.

The pull-down menu 'File'

offers access to:

• Open...
  - A browser offers to select the SoftPLC7 program directory
• Convert...
  - Selection of source and target for converting a STEP7-program
• Consistence
  - the consistence of the converted STEP7 program is checked
• Analysis of calling
  - lists any existing module in a tree for analyse purposes
• Close
  - ends the application

The pull-down menu 'View'

offers access to:

• Debug
  - starts the debug mode
• Test mode
  - starts the test mode

The pull-down menu 'Extras'

offers access to:

• Warm start mode (OB 100)
  - defines 'Warm start' for program start
• Resume mode (OB 101)
  - defines 'resume' for program start
• Colds tart mode (OB 102)
  - defines 'Cold start' for program start

• CPU-Properties
  - opens a dialog to set up the most important CPU-parameters
• Cycle times
  - opens a dialog to set up OB cycle times
• PG-Interface
  - opens a dialog to set up Interface parameter
• Date and time...
  - opens a dialog to set date and time
• Time synchronisation
  - opens a dialog to set parameter and diagnostic functions
• Watch block
  - opens a dialog to watch data blocks
• Connections
  - opens a dialog to check connect parameters

• Find...
  - Search for instructions
• Find forward
  - continue searching forwards
• Find backward
  - continue searching backwards

• Trigger condition for breakpoints
  - The program stops when trigger conditions match
• Set/Remove breakpoint
  - set/remove a breakpoint within STEP7 -code
• Continue
  - continue program till next breakpoint
• Remove all breakpoints
  - removes all breakpoints
• Execute next command
  - in stop condition the next instruction is executed
• Step into block
  - in stop condition it is branched to a called block or the next instruction is executed
• Step out of block
  - in stop condition it branches back to the calling block
• Run to cursor
  - in stop condition the program continues to cursor position
• Operant...
  - offers to input an operant to be watched beside the registers
• Conditional breakpoints
  - offers to input, modify or delete conditional breakpoints
• Backward in calling path
  - in stop condition it steps back one level in calling path
• Forward in calling path
  - in stop condition it steps forward one level in calling path

The Pull-down Menu '?'

offers version information about SoftPLC7.

Control Elements

The two buttons on the right hand top are used to connect to -, respectively disconnect a defined remote point.
Parameters for this connection are defined via the dialog 'PG-Interface' in the pull-down menu 'EXTRAS'.

The buttons 'Run', 'Run_P', 'Stop' below start, respectively stop the STEP7 program.

Indicators PS

These indicators are merely to give the original hard PLC-feeling, there are not valid on an SoftPLC

Indicators CPU

• INT
  - Internal Fault
• EXTF
  - no Function
• BUSF1
  - no Function
• BUSF2
  - no Function
• FRCE
  - no Function
• RUN
  - indicates the STEP7-program is running
• STOP
  - indicates the STEP7-program has stopped