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Developing Custom Programs SM3BAT User Guide
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6.4
How to Work With the Program Checker
The Program Checker runs automatically to verify the configuration of the
hardware and software, and to check your program for errors or warning
conditions. If it detects contradictory commands, the Program Checker reports the
latter of the two as the error source. Use the Program Checker output to correct
your program, save it, and then attempt to import or run it again.
1. The Program Checker runs at all of the following times:
■
After you finish loading or importing a program.
■
After you finish editing a program and press the main buttons on
the device to exit the editor as viewed through the LCD screen.
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Before you run a program by pressing the PROGRAM START
button.
2. The Program Checker performs several tests on the current program. For
example, it checks for the following items:
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Balanced REPEAT/UNTX loops
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At least one RECORD command that is reachable; in other words at
least one RECORD precedes, or is inside of, an infinite loop.
■ All required parameters set prior to a RECORD command.
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Parameters that are consistent with the present hardware.
3. It shows errors (if any), followed by warnings (if any). It shows the matching line
number in your program for the error or warning.
4. To view the next error or warning, press the
▼
Down button.
5. To exit the Program Checker, press the
◄
Left button. You can also exit by
pressing
▼
Down after the last error or warning.
6. If no buttons are pressed for 60 seconds while a problem is displayed, the
Program Checker times out and exits.
7. When the Program Checker exits:
■ If you were loading or editing a program, you return to the main
menu.
■
If you were running a program and there are no errors (only
warnings or no problems at all), your program starts.
6.5
How to Resolve Program Checker Errors
When a program contains warnings , you can address them or ignore them and
continue, the program will run with warnings . However, when a program contains