Sounding a beep, Padding a number with leading zeros – PSC PT Program Generator User Manual
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Sounding a Beep
User’s Guide
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Sounding a Beep
To sound a beep on a portable, use an
Output
node with the
Source
option set
to
Constant and
Destination
set to
System.
Figure 128. Output Beep Node
In the constant field, enter the human readable text of one of the following
codes:
You can enter more than one code, for multiple tones. For example,
.+.-.+
sounds a high beep followed by a low beep followed by another high beep.
Padding a Number with Leading Zeros
Many database programs use
fixed-length fields,
which means that values stored
in them must be a given number of characters long. Values with fewer than the
required characters can be “padded” with zeros at the beginning; the value 12,
for example, would appear as
0012. Tip14.scrn, illustrated in
uses a combination of
Modify
nodes,
Copy
nodes, and two tem-
plates to pad a number with leading zeros.
Sounds a high beep
Sounds a low beep
.
+
.
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