Mecademic Meca500 - Executing Programs; The Event Log Panel

32 User Manual for the Meca500 Industrial Robot (for rmware 10.1)
THE MECAPORTAL
Table 9: Keyboard shortcuts for source code editing (continued)
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR SOURCE CODE EDITING
Shortcut Action
Ctrl+g
Open the "go to line" dialog
Ctrl+/
Comment/uncomment active line(s)
Ctrl+Home
Move cursor to the beginning of the first line
Ctrl+End
Move cursor to the end of the last line
Ctrl+Right
Move cursor to next group
Ctrl+Left
Move cursor to previous group
Double click
Select group
Triple click
Select line
Alt+Up
Move active line(s) up
Alt+Down
Move active line(s) down
Shift+Alt+Up
Duplicate active line(s) and insert result above
Shift+Alt+Down
Duplicate active line(s) and insert result below
Alt+Click & drag
Select a box of text (column select)
Ctrl+Click
Place multiple cursors for simultaneous editing
6.4.3 Executing programs
You can execute the complete current program (even if it is not saved yet) by pressing the button at
the bottom of the code editor panel. Alternatively, you can execute only the active line(s), by pressing the
button, or by pressing Ctrl+Enter.
Once the robot starts executing motion commands, the button will become highlighted in yellow, and
the green status bars in the menu panel will start blinking. You can press that button (or Alt+;) at any
time to stop the robot and clear its motion queue (i.e., to send the ClearMotion command to the robot).
Alternatively, you can press the button (or Alt+.) to pause the execution of motion commands (i.e., to
send the PauseMotion command to the robot). To resume the execution of motion commands, press the
button again (which sends the ResumeMotion command).
At any time, if a motion error occurs (either while the robot is executing a command or is idle), the
button will become red. Pressing that button, or clicking the "Reset error" link in the red popup that will
appear, acknowledges and resets the error (i.e., the MecaPortal sends the ResetError command to the
robot). Once the error was reset, you need to ResumeMotion, by clicking the button (now blue).
Finally, recall that you can execute other programs, using the command StartProgram. With that
command, you can only execute programs that have already been saved on the robot.
6.5. The event log panel
By default, the event log panel lists most commands sent to the robot, called request messages, AND
most robot responses. Exceptions include the commands sent from the jogging panel, the configuration
menu, and a few others. All messages are preceded with a time stamp and an integer number, starting
from 1. Request messages are identified with the icon, while robot responses are preceded with the