Print debug information to PowerPMAC Terminal or telnet remote session in motion programs

[yyterminal]

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to PowerPMAC so this might be an easy question to you.

I would like to print a simple debug message "Hello World" to the Terminal at the end of one of the motion programs (*.pmc file).

Any suggestions are welcomed.

 

Thanks.

[Alex Anikstein]

Printing to the terminal window in the IDE from another source isn't especially easy. A better option would be to use the "Unsolicited Messages" window, which was designed to do exactly that. It is available under the "Delta Tau" dropdown menu, and by default it will listen on "Buffer 0". You can then use the "send" command in the motion program to broadcast a message out on Buffer 0 for the Unsolicited Messages window to receive.

 

You can find more information about the Unsolicited Messages window in the IDE manual, included with the IDE under the Help dropdown. You can find more information about the "send" command in the Power PMAC Software Reference Manual, in the "Power PMAC Program Command Specification" section, including a few examples.