1 moving the cursor {string search – Rockwell Automation 8520 9/Series CNC Lathe User Manual

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Editing Programs On Line

Chapter 5

5-6

This section describes moving the cursor in the program display area (lines
7-20 of the CRT). It assumes that you have selected a program to edit as

outlined on page 5-2 .

Important: The input cursor is the cursor shown on the input lines (lines 2

and 3 on the screen). Refer to page 2-37 for details.

To move the block cursor:

Press these keys on the operator panel:

right and left

right and left cursor keys

up and down

up and down cursor keys

up or down one full screen display

up or down cursor keys while holding down the [SHIFT]

key

To search for a character or character string, press the continue {

Þ

}

softkey to change the softkey functions and follow these steps:

1.

Press the

{STRING SEARCH}

softkey.

DIGITZ

E

MODIFY

INSERT

BLOCK

DELETE

BLOCK

TRUNC

DELETE

CH/WRD

EXIT

EDITOR

STRING

SEARCH

RENUM

PRGRAM

MERGE

PRGRAM

QUICK

VIEW

CHAR/

WORD

(softkey level 3)

2.

Move the cursor to the beginning or end of the file. Press either the:

To move the cursor to the:

Press:

beginning of the part program

{TOP OF PROG}

end of the part program

{BOT OF PROG}

3.

Key in the character or character string you want to search for, and:

To move the cursor to search:

Press:

forward

{FORWARD}

in reverse

{REVRSE}

If the control cannot find the character or character string, it places

the cursor at the end or beginning of the program being searched,

depending on the direction of the search.

5.2.1

Moving the Cursor

{STRING SEARCH}

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