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CHAPTER 10 – Recipes OMRON
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The Save Recipe As pushbutton displays a simple dialog prompting for a name to use for the new
recipe.
Clicking the OK pushbutton creates a new recipe with the name specified. Choosing the Cancel
pushbutton aborts the save operation. A recipe created using this dialog is added to the available list
of entries displayed in the recipe dialog. The newly saved recipe is also available in the development
environment using the Recipe Editor.
Note that it is possible to change the name of an existing recipe in runtime simply by typing a new
name in the
Recipe Name: field of the Modify Recipe dialog and then clicking the OK pushbutton.
The re-named recipe appears in the available list of entries displayed in the Recipes dialog and is also
available in the development environment using the Recipe Editor.
To download an existing recipe, highlight the recipe from the recipe list and select the
Download Recipe button from the toolbar. See chapter 10, Downloading a Recipe for more
information.
To upload an existing recipe, highlight the recipe from the recipe list and select the Upload
Recipe button from the toolbar. See chapter 10, Uploading a Recipe for more information.
Click the Print Recipe toolbar button to send a copy of the recipe to the printer. See chapter
10, Printing Recipes for a typical example of the formatted output.
A summary of recipe information is available by selecting the Recipe Information button
from the toolbar. The Recipe Information dialog is displayed (see chapter 10, Viewing
Recipes in the Recipe Editor
for an example).
Downloading a Recipe
There are two ways of downloading a recipe definition in runtime. The first method is to use a CX-
Supervisor script function attached to a graphical object on a page, such as a push button. The
function call is:
DownLoadRecipe(“<NameOfRecipe>“)
The other way to download a recipe, is to display the Recipe Viewer as described in the
previous chapter. Highlight the desired recipe from the recipe list and click the
Download
Recipe pushbutton. The Download Recipe dialog is displayed as follows: