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Thanks for the info on the XA command.  I suspect that these XA commands are used by the On-Line monitoring and that the XA commands  transfers binary (not just printable ASCII) data.  This behavior precludes the use of STX/ACK arbitration.

Is there any mechanism that the PLC can use to detect if On- line monitoring is in progress?  An undocumented TBasic command or a special bit that ladder logic could "look at" would be great.

I've worked with the sample code that was provided for the XServer and found that these algorithms do not work with On-line monitoring.  I've spent a couple of days attempting to develop more reliable algorithms but the XA command seems to be the one problem that I cannot work around.

Thanks again for your help.

I'm working with T100MD+1616 hardware and would like to log PLC data to a PC using the TLServer and the <APPEND xxx.txt> mechanism.

The problem that I am having is that I'm using the same COMM #1 port for both debug (online monitoring) and the <APPEND xxx.txt> activity.  It believe that the data streams for the <APPEND xxx> file services are getting intermixed with the On-Line Monitoring requests to "see" what's going on with the PLC.

The TLServer help files state:

The TLServer will close the file after it receives the end-of-service tag "</>" from the PLC and it will in turn send a "<OK>" tag to the PLC to acknowledge that the APPEND  request has been successfully completed. It is up to your PLC program to check for the "<OK>" tag to determine if it the service it requested have been completed successfully.

The Help file gives no suggestion on how the PLC program should check for the "<OK>" tag.

I use the following code to read the <OK> tag I really mess up the On-Line Monitoring:

' Get Response from TLServer
'
A$=""
N=0
I = INCOMM(1)
WHILE I<>-1
    A$=A$+CHR$(I)
    N=N+1
    I = INCOMM(1)
ENDWHILE

Is there a special (correct) way to check for the "<OK>" token?

Is the <OK> tag buffered differently from the commands send/received as a result of the On-Line Monitoring?  Is there a special TLBasic function that I should use?

Would I have less problems if I used the XServer rather than the RS-232 connection?

This is how I installed TriLOG 6.21:

• I uninstall the current TRiLOGI version first. I use the Windows Control Panel "Prorams and Features" (Vista).
• remove the remaining directory structure C:\TRiLOGI or C:\Program Files\TRiLOGI.  Your uninstall routine does not remove all traces of TRiLOGI.
• I perform a clean install using the file that I down loaded from http://www.tri-plc.com/trilogi5-upgrade/

I have done this 10 times.  If the TRiLOGI 6.21 is installed into C:\Program Files\TRiLOG  thenTLServer fails.  If TRiLOGI is installed at C:\TRiLOG then TLServer runs.  I have, also, installed into C:\TRiLOG6_21 and everything is fine.

The value of fontIncrement in the en_laguage.txt for the TLServer section is set to 0.  As I am doing a clean install, I have not modified this file.  If I change the value of fontIncrement, I DO SEE the font on the PLC WebServer get larger and smaller. However, the layout of the window does not look like the sample you have shown nor does it look like the version of the server that shipped with TRiLOGI 6.14.

I'm OK installing TRiLOGI in slightly non-standard locations on my hard disk.  It's just a tool.  

I will e-mail Mr. Yew a screen shot of the PLC WebServer Window (I don't have an easy way to include it on this bulletin board).  I've been helping him test some of his code.

I'm having difficulties getting the TLserver 3.15 to run.  The TLServer window fails to open.

I'm running Windows Vista SP1, JRE 6.11.

I was running TRILOGI 6.14 w/JRE 6.03 before installing TRILOGI 6.21.

If I execute the tlserver3.bat from a DOS window, this is what I see:

C:\Program Files\TRiLOGI\TL6>java -jar TLServer31.jar

String counts = 83
Installation Directory = C:\Program Files\TRiLOGI\TL6/
Serialio Library: version 9.9.9: build 9191
Copyright (c) 1996-2008 Serialio.com, All Rights Reserved.
os.name="Windows Vista"  os.arch="x86"
TRi Amendment1:OS Name =Windows Vista
SerialPort class loaded: jspWin
Serial ports reported by system:
COM1;COM3;fsdir = C:\Program Files\TRiLOGI\TL6/FileService/
Getting Server IP addresses from O/S
IP Address1 = gary-PC/10.0.0.6
IP Address2 = gary-PC/fe80:0:0:0:4432:c14c:a57:df19%8
IP Address3 = gary-PC/fe80:0:0:0:1c18:ca2:f5ff:fff9%9
IP Address4 = gary-PC/2001:0:4137:9e50:1c18:ca2:f5ff:fff9
java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
             at TLServer31.TlServer.a(Unknown Source)
             at TLServer31.TLServer.<init>(Unknown Source)
             at TLServer31.TLServer.main(Unknown Source)


Any thoughts on how to proceed?

Thanks for the help.  I see that the custom functions are mono-spaced fonts. I see that the ladder logic comments use variable-pitched fonts.

I have restarted the TRiLOGI program after modifing the "en_language.txt" file, but still see no change in how the I/O Tables are printed.

I am editing the "en_language.txt" file, however I have two of them:

c:\program files\TRiLOGI\TL6\en_language.txt
c:\program files\TRiLOGI\TL6\public\en_language.txt

I have been editing BOTH versions to see if either one has any affect.

How about providing an option to output the I/O tables as a simple "CSV" formatted text file.  This could then be easily reformatted using EXCEL or WORD.

Gary D.

Will there be an option to reduce the font size (or use a fixed pitch font) when printing I/O tables?  

Long, but legal, names do not fit into the columns and overlap with the next column.

Example, "F1Key_EDGE" as a Input name will print across both the Inputs and Outputs column.