Rockwell Automation 8520-9API 9/Series OCI API Developer's Guide - Manual (Page 33)

3–12 OCI Basic Display Set (BDS)
Publication 8520-6.6 - August 1999
This procedure assumes you already have Visual Basic active with
the source file ABOCI.VBP open. To use the softkey editor utility:
1. Access the search utilities from the “Setup” menu in the Basic
Display Set. The “Setup” menu is only available when the source
code is loaded in the same directory as the Basic Display Set and
the variable SETUPMenu is set to True. Set this variable by
either:
•
Manually change the variable in source code
(SETUPMenu is found in Global.Bas InitGlobals) or
•
Manually change the variable FINAL_EXE to False
2. From the Visual Basic Run menu select “START”. The source
code should load and begin running. You should have the OCI
workstation connected to an OCI compatible CNC and the OCI
data server active or have your 9/PC running via the 9/PC
Configuration Manager. If the Basic Display Set can not find the
default CNC you have selected you will be prompted to select
another CNC to connect.
You should see the power turn–on screen. Pressing [Enter]
should display the program position display.
3. From the executing screen Setup menu, select “Softkeys”.
The basic displays should show the softkey edit tools after
loading the text files for all valid languages. The softkey edit
tools are shown in the following figure.