Rockwell Automation 1747-PBASE BASIC Development Software Programming Manual - Manual (Page 21)

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Chapter
2
Getting Familiar with Your Development
Software
This chapter is intended to give you an overview of the BASIC development
software so that you can understand the software’s general structure. The topics in
this chapter include:
Starting Your Software
•
software start-up
•
toplevel menu
•
main menu
•
program editing and exiting
After installation, follow these steps to start your software.
1. Reboot your personal computer. This is necessary to activate any changes made
to the autoexec.bat and config.sys files.
2. 2. 2. 2. If your mouse driver is not automatically installed by your autoexec.bat file,
execute whatever command is necessary to install it prior to starting the BASIC
development software.
3. 3. 3. 3. Change to your working directory. If you accepted the default directory
assignments during software installation (refer to Chapter 1), the BAS
subdirectory was created for use as a working directory. To change to this
directory, type:
> CD\ABBASIC\BAS at the DOS prompt and press the
[Enter]
or
[Return]
key (indicated throughout this manual by
[Enter]
).
The > moves to the end of the line:
CD\ABBASIC\BAS.
4. 4. 4. 4. Type:
> PBASE
at the DOS prompt and press
[Enter]
. The software
determines your monitor type and displays the Toplevel menu.
If you have a mouse and it is not working, you can still proceed by using the arrow
keys. You may want to go back and check to make sure your mouse driver was
installed either through the autoexec.bat file or through commands you entered.
IMPORTANT
If your personal computer does not recognize the command
PBASE, the path command in your autoexec.bat file may not
have been modified correctly.
IMPORTANT
There are additional mouse setup options listed in the Setup and
Configuration menu. These include a mouse ON/OFF option.
Refer to Chapter 3 for additional information on the Setup and
Configuration menu.