Leica Biosystems LPC Software installation - Manual (Page 175)

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LabeLase ® Producer - Installation
For example, say your layout has 8 text fields, but only 4 operator entry
fields. If your download contains 6 data fields, the first 4 will be assigned to
the operator entry fields. The fifth field of the download will be assigned to
the text field whose ID is set to "1", and the sixth field will go to the text field
whose ID is "2".
Be careful that you assign the ID numbers of these "extra" text fields cor-
rectly, or you may overwrite text fields inadvertently. In the above example,
the text fields that reference the operator entry fields should have ID num-
bers "3", "4", "5", and "6", with the remaining two fields being "7" and "8".
Standard Message Format
You can use one of several different communications protocols (described
below) to communicate with the Producer CL program, but the format of the
data that is encapsulated by the protocol is generally the same (note that
this does not apply for the Programmable protocol with fixed fields se-
lected). We call this the Standard Message Format and it is defined as fol-
lows.
The Standard Message Format consists of several fields of information,
each separated from the others by a separator character (or sequence of
characters) that you specify in the Data Field Separator in the Host Commu-
nications form. This separator is typically the comma character.
The format is defined below:
<FILENAME>,<QUANTITY>,<COPIES>,<SN>,<VMAGID><EXITBIN><FIELD1>,
<FIELD2>,...<FIELD N>
The first field of the message specifies the layout file name. This filename
can be a fully qualified path name specifying a cassette layout file on the
local disk drive, a floppy drive, or any network path. The filename can also
be just the file name portion, without the path information. In this case, the
program will first look for the file in the folder that was last used by the op-
erator to open a file. If the file cannot be found there, it will then look in the
folder that contains the Producer CL program. If you do not want to specify
a layout file to open, and instead want to use whatever layout is already
open in the program, simply omit the filename field (you must still include the
separator character).
4. Host Communication