Control logix Job posting of sorts..

[darrenj]

Thanks alot Dan....now i see how you did it..

 

[darrenj]

So you have 7 integers, each being a portion of time and you want to log it in hh:mm:ss and MM//DD//YYYY?

I have attached an example file (just rename it as a .cd2 file) that takes your time variables and converts them to a string. You can then log that string. I used programs that accept arguments and return a value so you only need the 2 programs no matter how many of these items you need.

Regards,
Dan

Dan..when i try and enter my string it tells me unknown function "TimeString"......

(I see your was created for a G310..mine is for DSPGT..not sure if it makes a difference...).....


thanks

D

 

[darrenj]

Disregard!..found the programming part!..

Cheers

D

 

[darrenj]

OK...i have it working..and everything looks good..one thing is bugging me...

can someone please explain the line of programming that Dan used?

return IntToText(Arg1, 10, 2) + ":" + IntToText(Arg2, 10, 2) + ":" + IntToText(Arg3, 10, 2);



First..the Return?

second..the IntToText..i understand..turning an int to a "string"...now the argument radix and count i do not understand where those numbers came from..


the rest i do get..

*** Update...i now understand where the numbers come from! (a little bit of reading goes along way!) base 10 2 digits long..now for the arguments...


Thanks

D

 

[DanYost]

Sorry for the delay, I was on vacation since last Thursday.

The return is used to have the program return a value. This is done so the program does not need to run all of the time.

The arguments are setup at the bottom of the program. This was done to need only 1 program regardless of how many start time items you have. It just assumes that the first argument is hours, as it uses that as the hour portion of the string it returns. The second is the minutes, and finally the seconds.

You could just as easly run a program On Tick that does something like:

StringTime = IntToText(Hoiurs, 10, 2) + ":" + IntToText(Minutes, 10, 2) + ":" + IntToText(Seconds, 10, 2);

But if you have more than 1 string you need to build like that, then you need a program for each one.

Hopefully that helps.

Regards,
Dan