I have a machine with a lot of emergency buttons and for each one I have a signal to the PLC saying it is pressed. So I know which button is pressed.
I also have a KRC4 on the security and I do not have any signal from it to the PLC saying that it's emergency is pressed.
I could go by elimination, if none was pressed, so the robot is. But is not the best option because maybe I just have wire from the buttons disconnected and I will assume that is the robot that is in emergency.
I was thinking about getting a system variable that says it is pressed, but I could not find one. Does someone know how to know if the emergency is pressed programmatically?
maybe this helps:
The following predefined data lists exist in the KR C...:
$MACHINE.DAT
is a predefined data list with exclusively predefined system variables. The machine data
serve the purpose of adapting the controller to the connected robot (kinematic
information, control parameters, etc.). There is a $MACHINE.DAT in both the control
system and the robot system. You cannot create new variables or delete existing ones.
Examples:
$ALARM_STOP Signal for Emergency Stop (controller--specific)
Select (assuming that you have 'English' as selected language) Display-> Input/Outputs->External Automatic. This will open up a window where you can connect almost any event or state in the controller to one of the outputs that you have mapped to your PLC. The events or states are more or less self explanatory. Select one and press Configure and Edit to change the output from a default value to the one you desire.
There is no need for a restart afterwards. Just close the wizard and you are good to go. This is also where you can set up inputs for a remote start of the robot. Post a question if you need more details on this topic. Good luck!
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When I run the model, I want my model to go to the viewarea of the simulation parameters in the agent of this user interface. So at the simulation and java actions I added this by the next code (also a screenshot is added at the bottom):
root.uI_startUP.SimulationParameters.navigateTo();
The strange thing is when I run the model for the first time, he goes for like 1 second to this view area, but then automatically returns to the main agent. When I stop the model and restart it again (and keep the run window open), this problem is not happening and it is staying in the good user-interface agent view area.
What could be the reason behind this? and how can this be solved.
Added later:
At the moment I fixed it by creating an event which is triggered by the variable start==true, and after that navigates to the interface and sets this value to false. see figure below
This works, and seems to be a solution.
But I'm still curious why the first method is not working..
Seems to be the code in "Initial experiment setup" that messes here.
Remove both code snippets and only call uI_startUP.SimulationParameters.navigateTo() on the "On startup" of Main.
This is how you should do it anyway :)
I'm developing an on screen keyboard application for OS X, similar to the one that's built in to the operating system (Keyboard Viewer). I seem to have hit a wall as I'm not sure how I can accept click events from buttons and not steal focus from the currently activated application. I know this is possible since there are apps that already do this, e.g. AssistiveWere's KeyStrokes.
So my question is this: How can I make my window receive mouse events and handle them without getting activated?
P.S. I'm not very experienced in OS X development and this is my first Swift project, so excuses if this is a trivial problem.
You need to make your window an instance of NSPanel (or a subclass), include NSNonactivatingPanelMask in its styleMask, and set becomesKeyOnlyIfNeeded to true. (The style mask can be controlled in IB.) You probably also want it to be floating so it's always above normal windows, so set floatingPanel to true, too.
I'm trying to do the following. I have a TextField (or any other control) and I want to determine focus loss according to user’s input validation.
I’ve read this article https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/misc/focus.html#inputVerification but it seems that JavaFX does not handle focus as Swing does.
What I’m trying to achieve is: “A component's input verifier is consulted whenever the component is about to lose the focus. If the component's value is not acceptable, the input verifier can take appropriate action, such as refusing to yield the focus on the component or replacing the user's input with the last valid value and then allowing the focus to transfer to the next component.”
When a user is focused on a textfield (or any other control) I want to validate user’s input in 3 scenarios:
1) Enter key was pressed (I would listen to the KeyEvent, validate input and, if appropriate, ask to focus on the next control, but I don’t know how to do the latter).
2) TAB key was pressed (I need to intercept the focus change event).
3)Focus is lost (for example by clicking on another control or outside the Stage or even by pressing TAB key)
I need to validate user’s input and decide whether I let focus loss or no. In a way, I need to intercept the focus change event.
I can’t simply listen to de textField.focusedProperty because that only tells me that I’m loosing focus, but I can’t (or at least I don´t know how) stop it from happening.
I tried to get information about focus subsystem in JavaFX but couldn’t find any.
I’d like to know when the engine handles focus events and act according to:
a) The control that is loosing focus (and its content)
b) The possible next control in the focus sequence.
c) If the focus remains in the same Stage o if its send to another Stage or application.
I hope I’ve been clear enough with my explanation and please forgive my English if there are any mistakes.
Thank you very much in advance.
As I need to specify a local variable to a Subsystem, I created a mask. Doing that I lose the easy access to the subsystem. Right-click and navigating to "Look under mask" is supposed to be too complicated.
So I thought about a workaround and built the following:
The dialog callback code behind the "Get deeper!" checkbox is:
myParameter = %Parameter set by checking Get deeper!
path = gcb(gcs);
if strcmp(get_param(gcb,'myParameter'),'on')
open_system(path,'tab');
end
Everytime when I check the box, the subsystem gets opened and also by every double click on the subsystem, in case the box was checked before. Hence the code does what it should, but thats actualy not the common way how one would realize/visualize something like this.
What I want is a button "Look under mask" in my mask - so the subsystem just gets opened by clicking on that button. Basically the button should call the function: open_system(gcb(gcs),'tab'). Looks so easy, but Simulink doesn't offer me any option to implement this. Can anybody help?
The main issue whith the current solution is also that with every execution of the model all subsystems open up, where the box is checked. That's not the idea.
Matlab 2012b adds exactly what you want: masked blocks have a button on the botton left that is a shortcut to "Look under mask".
Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible to add a button in a mask.
You may want to change your function to automatically set the "Get deeper!" checkbox off after the user clicks on it. That would avoid the automatic opening of the subsystems when the model is loaded. You could do that adding set_param(path,'myParameter','off') just after the open_system(path,'tab');
Finally, as another workaround, you may want to set the OpenFcn callback to call open_system(gcb,'tab'). This will make the system work as if it isn't masked at all. You can put two open_system calls, one to look under mask and the other to open the mask dialog box, if you prefer.
I'm automating an app that shows some overlay messages anywhere on the app for several scenarios, such as app installed for the first time etc. (I'm fairly new to Robotium too.)
The overlay displays a text that goes away by swiping or clicking on it. Also, there are different types of these overlays with different unique text on it. (let's call it Activity A)
I wanted to create a robust test case that handles this case gracefully. From the test's perspective we won't know that the activity A will be present all the time. But I want to recover from the scenario if it does, by writing a method that I can call any time. Currently, the tearDown method gets called since my expected activity name doesn't match.
Also, even if the activity A exists, there are other predefined overlay texts too. So, if I use solo.waitForText("abc") to check for text "abc", I may see the overlay 2 with the text "pqr" instead.
So I was looking for a way to automate this, and I can't use solo.assertCurrentActivity() or solo.waitForActivity methods as they just stop the execution after the first failure.
So any guidance is appreciated!
All the waitFor methods return a boolean. So you can use waitForActivity() exactly as you want to. If the Activity doesn't exist it will return false.
You can check which Activity is current:
Activity current = solo.getCurrentActivity();