Actsip-H - Esco-da.be

14 General topics Actron AB5. General topics of the Actsip-H system.5.1. Help texts and on-line help. Inside the Actsip-H program pressing the Function key 1 gives you a help text,press to get back from the help text. The help text you see depend on the taskyou are doing. You don't have to read all the help texts but only the relevant ones.If you press while in the help system, you get more information.To get help on the subject of On-line and monitoring hold down the key andpress . (+)5.2. Editing of textWhen Actsip-H asks you to enter text you have some general editing functions.Pressing a normal key just inserts that character into the text. If you want to change thelast character entered use the key to remove the character to the left of thecursor. Deleting the character under the cursor is done by pressing the key. Youcan use the and to move the cursor in the text, and finallypressing the key accepts the text as it is and ends the editing.The key moves you to the leftmost column and the key moves thecursor to the end of the text.Pressing + deletes all the remaining text on the line after the cursor.If you want to abort the edit and retain the original text press the key.5.3. Symbolic versus numerical addresses.Actsip uses a concept called symbolic addresses. A symbolic address is used instead ofa numerical address. this means that a symbolic address is another way of specifying anaddress on the PLC.If we have connected the PLC input at the address X0 to a switch that is labelledSTART it is much easier if you can think of the switch as START instead of X0. Inthis case "START" is the symbolic address for the physical address X0.When programming with Actsip and you must specify an PLC address you can eitheruse the numerical address or the symbolic address.Whenever you specify a PLC address in Actsip-H it is checked to be valid. If theaddress cannot be accepted the input line is cleared and the cursor is reset to the firstposition.Invalid addresses are for example:ABX (input) address used in an output coil.Addresses referring to a module that is not assigned (e.g. X0 used but no inputmodule assigned to slot 0).Copyright Actron AB, 1992