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Programming: Q Parameters

9.8

Additional functions

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Displaying messages on the TNC screen

You can also use the function

FN 16 to display any messages

from the NC program in a pop-up window on the TNC screen. This
makes it easy to display explanatory texts, including long texts,
at any point in the program in a way that the user has to react to
them. You can also display Q parameter contents if the protocol
description file contains such instructions.

For the message to appear on the TNC screen, you need only enter
SCREEN: as the name of the protocol file.

96 FN 16: F-PRINT TNC:\MASKE\MASKE1.A/SCREEN:

If the message has more lines than fit in the pop-up window, you
can use the arrow keys to page in the window.

To close the pop-up window, press the CE key. To have the
program close the window, program the following NC block:

96 FN 16: F-PRINT TNC:\MASKE\MASKE1.A/SCLR:

All the previously described conventions apply to the
protocol description file.

If you output the same file more than once in the
program, the TNC appends all texts to the end of the
texts already output within the target file.

Exporting messages

You can also use the

FN 16 function in the NC program in order to

externally save the files generated with

FN 16. Two possibilities are

available for this:

Enter the complete target path in the

FN 16 function:

96 FN 16: F-PRINT TNC:\MSK\MSK1.A / PC325:\LOG\PRO1.TXT

All the previously described conventions apply to the
protocol description file.

If you output the same file more than once in the
program, the TNC appends all texts to the end of the
texts already output within the target file.