Designer Device fields such as MWX

[ccherry]

It would be extremely helpful in setting up of "Devices" in such instuctions that you could "AutoFill" the instructions once a particular device is setup i.e. IP, Unit ID. It would then making setting up, in my case, dozens of slaves and Network read writes, a lot easier. Also...is there a time frame at which programmers will add Casted elements available for lookup in instruction entry? I can't always remember the name exactly, and it is not available as an option that I am aware of. EX V120:3 = Run_Cmd is usable but not searchable (except in doc edit which you can't do while entry) when selecting a bit operation. All together very nice software to construct code in.

[BobO]

It would be extremely helpful in setting up of "Devices" in such instuctions that you could "AutoFill" the instructions once a particular device is setup i.e. IP, Unit ID. It would then making setting up, in my case, dozens of slaves and Network read writes, a lot easier.

I understand the need and I can certainly see the benefit, although I'm not sure how we would implement it. I was just thinking that you might use a symbolic constant for at least the IP address...only to realize that we don't support a constant in the 'variable' field. Sadly, that might have been an easy partial solution...but it doesn't work, and I'm not sure what the pain would be to make it work. Of course if you are willing to put the address in a D location, you can use a name for it.

Also...is there a time frame at which programmers will add Casted elements available for lookup in instruction entry? I can't always remember the name exactly, and it is not available as an option that I am aware of. EX V120:3 = Run_Cmd is usable but not searchable (except in doc edit which you can't do while entry) when selecting a bit operation.

That sounds like a bug. If V120:3 is documented and bits are valid for the field, it should show up in the auto-complete list.

All together very nice software to construct code in.

Thank you!

[franji1]

That sounds like a bug. If V120:3 is documented and bits are valid for the field, it should show up in the auto-complete list.

It was a bug - the bug has been squashed.  The fix will be in the next Designer maintenance release (1.2.2).