Rockwell Automation 1747-PBASE BASIC Development Software Programming Manual - Manual (Page 33)

Publication 1746-PM001A-US-P
Getting Familiar with Your Development Software 2-13
Downloading Your Program
Path: Toplevel menu
→ → → →
teRminal [232]
→ → → →
File
→ → → →
Download from host
to module
Path: Toplevel menu
→ → → →
Edit mode
→ → → →
Other
→ → → →
teRminal [232]
→ → → →
File
→ → → →
Download from host to module
QuickStroke: [PgDn]
1. If using a mouse, move the cursor over to
File
on the Terminal mode screen
and click the left mouse button. If you do not have a mouse, press [F2] .
Cursor to the right or left to highlight the File menu and press [Enter] .
2. 2. 2. 2. Move the cursor to Download from host to module and press [Enter] or
click the left mouse button. A dialog box appears asking you to enter a
filename for downloading.
3. 3. 3. 3. Pressing [Enter] causes the translated version (FIRST.BAS) of the file you are
actively working on (FIRST.BDL) to be downloaded to the module.
Exiting a BASIC Program To exit a program:
1. Press [F3] to exit terminal mode. This returns you to the main menu screen in
Edit mode.
2. 2. 2. 2. If using a mouse, move the mouse cursor over to Exit on the second line of the
screen, and click the left mouse button. You can also press [F2] on your
keyboard to access the pull-down menus and cursor left or right to highlight
Exit
and press
[Enter]
. This returns you to the Toplevel menu.
3. 3. 3. 3. From the Toplevel menu, move the mouse cursor down to
Quit
and click the
left mouse button. You can also cursor up or down to highlight
Quit
and press
[Enter] . This quits the BASIC development software and returns you to the
DOS level.
IMPORTANT
Only files with the .BAS extension can be downloaded to the
module.