Adept DeskTop 4.3 User Manual
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The display box displays information on the status of a selected task.
Number of Tasks
The number of tasks is limited as follows:
• Micro V+: 4 tasks. Task 0 is the only task that can send instructions to a robot.
• V+: 7 tasks.
• V+ with Extensions: 28 tasks
Numbering of task is 0-based, that is the numbering of tasks starts at Task 0.
Assigning Programs to a Task Execution Stack
The programs and instructions that are in a task are referred to as the execution stack, or simply the
stack, of the task.
From Adept DeskTop you can only assign a single program to a task. However, if the program added to
the task calls one or more programs, these programs will be added to the execution stack when they
are called.
illustrates a 'called' program that was added to a stack after execution.
A single program can be assigned to more than one task.
Figure 22 Program Added to an Execution task by the CALL Instruction
Task Handling
• In MicroV+, Task0 is the only task that can be assigned to a robot.
• You cannot delete a task that is running, or delete or edit programs that are in a currently
executing task.
• You can Zero the memory when a task is running.
• In the Program Editor, attempting to edit a program that is executing will generate an error,
or will be ignored.
After executing Task 1,
program 'pallet_loc' is added
to the stack
Before execution of Task 1 only
program 'pckplc_3' is in stack
this program
calls program
'pallet_loc'