Cscape 8.6 August 2008

Horner APG

New Workbench Features - New Model – XL6

New Workbench Feature – Tapi SupportTapi support allows seamless use of the standard Windows

Telephony interface. No longer is it necessary to

enter a ‘Modem initialisation String’ when

using Cscape over a modem line – The

modem is selected from a list of Windows

installed modems and the modem is

automatically configured by Windows.

New Workbench Feature – Connect/Disconnect Feature

A new button will be available to connect and disconnect Cscape from the Target device. This will allow a much quicker means of releasing the serial port if it is required to run another package which uses the serial port.

In addition it will cause the dial and hang-up to occur when using the Tapi connection thus preventing the need for long duration connections to remote device via modem.

New Look And Feel - Separate Subroutines Blocks

The logic module concept introduced in

Cscape 8.5 is extended to allow specific

subroutine blocks to be created which may be called either from the main organisational

modules, or from each other.

New Logic Functions - 1 Second and 1ms Timers

• F/w Update Required

New Logic Functions - 32 Bit Timer Accumulators

• F/w Update Required

New Look And Feel - CBreeze Feature Integration - Timer Object

A new timer graphics object will read a timer

accumulator (or any other register) and display it formatted

directly as a timer (For example 632 suitably

formatted would appear as 01:03.2

• F/w Update Required

New Workbench Features - Datawatch Improvements

In previous releases of Cscape there was a problem in the data watch window when a register appeared more the once in the list. If one of the instances was deleted all other instances stop updating. This is corrected..

The default format for bit variable in the watch window is now Boolean.

Modbus TCP on XL Series Ethernet Modules

‘Modbus TCP’ protocol is available in the Open

logic block for communicating over Modbus TCP on the

ethernet module installed in an XL series unit

device on MJ1.

• F/w Update Required

Envision Support• New Envision EV

models Allows creating screens for PC use including larger 1280x1024 screen and a wide screen selection.

Move Project to Envision (Export to Envision)

• Automatically releases PC communication ports and starts Envision with the current Cscape project.

Move Protocol Settings Between Ports

Previously there was no means to transfer the

protocol configuration of one port to another port,

other than by deleting the original configuration

and manually re-entering the information.

Now Cscape allows transferring the

configurations with a single click.

Compound Project File

Previous releases of Cscape have supported ‘Project Files’ where the information for how the component .Csp files of project fitted together was stored.

Several users made the assumption that all the information for the project was stored in that single file. It was foreseen that users might archive this single file and in the future when attempting to reload the file would find that the file was worthless without the component .csp files.

The new project file format will contain the .csp files and so contain all the information required to archive and transfer an entire project.

Major Bug Fixes/Enhancements• Pause ‘n’ Load Fixed.• Exported programs for OCS4/5/651 for Compact Flash are now readable by the OCS.• Insertion and Removal of USB/Serial converters is detected and handled

dynamically.• Upload of program with multiple languages retrieves the language information.• Goto dialog with errors don’t produce multiple error boxes.• Extended Register Support for Rx and Tx Communication Blocks.• Removable Media File Copy Supported.• Workspace Window set up preserved for subsequent file loads.• Missing protocol file no longer causes a Cscape Crash.• Serial Operations suppressed if no device is detected on the currently selected

communication interface.• Modbus Protocol backward compatibility issue fixed.• Ladder find on multiple module programs works correctly.• Error search on multiple module programs works correctly.

• F/w Update Required

Companion Firmware Release (v12.4)XLe/XLt New Features/Bug Fixes

Ladder Scan FixEnhanced Modbus Support (Extended Addressing)Modbus TCP for Ethernet (Master and Slave)Memory Backup/Restore

XL6/NX/QX New Features/Bug Fixes

EnvisionFX support (NX/QX)Ethernet IP (I/O Connection) support for Allen BradleyMemory Backup/Restore