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General Category => Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software => Topic started by: davidbgtx on July 12, 2018, 06:52:01 AM
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I have come to love the invert power flow contact and use it a lot. How about a keyboard shortcut for it, shift I or something.
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The "NOT contact" is very powerful, agreed. I like to use it as the ELSE branch of an IF/THEN/ELSE construct.
Attached is one rung from the PID1 sample project that ships with Designer ($tTopOfScan, rung 3). It optionally applies a filter or not to a raw analog input. Basically if the signal is noisy, turn on X2 and it applies the filter, otherwise, the program uses the raw analog input value. The analog input is in WX0 and the resulting "adjusted" value ends up in R10.
So, basically, it's
. IF X2 THEN
. FILTER WX0 to R10
. ELSE
. MOVE WX0 to R10 // do NOT filter
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Yeah, I love that thing to death, and I use it like that too, Franj1.
I also really like the inline one-shot. DL has always had an option the guys with the inlines (AB, Siemens, Idec, etc) lacked, but both forms work well in different scenarios, so now you have both.
Thanks!
Any progress on getting them below stack level 1?
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I use like that too Franji, in stages a lot for if jmp here, else jmp there. I also like the one-shot and the I use the delta contact a lot.
As a wish, would like a keyboard shortcut like shift key/I or something, so I don't have to use mouse to pick it.
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Any progress on getting them below stack level 1?
Sorry, no. The complexity of doing true power flow of that instruction beyond the first stack level is much harder than it looks.
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OK, thanks for the update.
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Slight change of subject, but still on hotkeys - the ">" is really inconvenient as it is in the rotation 5 "/" strokes after the default ">=". It's pretty unfortunate when I happen to need ">" more than ">=".
I realize it's due to the predecessors not having ">", but still... It's only two "/" from "<", but that's hard to remember to do.
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I have come to love the invert power flow contact and use it a lot. How about a keyboard shortcut for it, shift I or something.
Implemented user assignable hot-keys in Designer 2.7.
We even predefined some examples, like Ctrl+3 for TMR and Ctrl+2 for the NOT contact! But definitely assign them as you wish. Just right click on the Instruction Toolbox and select Assign Instruction Hotkeys from the context menu.