Motion Coordinator Technical Reference Manual
Support Software 10-53
Creating and Running a program
The Motion Perfect Editor
You can start the Editor from the main Program
Menu, the Edit button in the program section of
the control panel or by right clicking in an entry in
the control panel program list and selecting Edit
from the pop-up menu.
If you launch the editor from the control panel it
will start immediately. From the program menu
you will first be prompted with a program selector
dialog to confirm the file you wish to edit.
The Motion Perfect Editor is designed to operate in a similar manner to any sim-
ple text editor found on a PC. Standard operations such a block editing functions,
text search and replace and printing are all supported and conform to the stand-
ard Windows shortcut keys. In addition it provides TrioBASIC syntax highlighting,
program formatting and program debugging facilities.
Editor Options
Options for the editor are controlled by the Editor Options dialog. This can be
opened by selecting Options/Editor from Motion Perfect’s main menu. The dia-
log allows to user to change the fonts used for screen display and printing, the
colours used for syntax and line highlighting and the spacings used when auto-
matically formatting a program.
Screen Font
This is the font used by Motion Perfect to display text in the editor window on
the screen. The font is restricted to fixed pitch fonts only.
Printer Font
This is the font used by Motion Perfect to print program listings. The font is
restricted to fixed pitch fonts only.
Colours
Colours can be specified for the following:
• Normal Text - Text which is not highlighted using systax highlighting.
• Screen Background.
• Current Line (background) - the current line during debugging.
• Break Line (background) - a line containing a break (TRON) command.
• Current Line Break (background) - a line containing a break command which is
also the current line.
• Error Line (background) - The first line containing a compilation error.
• BASIC key word - A key word in the TrioBASIC language, usually a command or
some type of system variable.
Program Section of the
Control Panel
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