DirLoader question

    Hello everyone!
    I need help with DirLoader as i cannot understand how to configure it properly... feel really on the end of my nerves with this one :wallbash:
    The system is KRC2 KSS 5.6.9, DirLoader 1.2
    As i dont have IO modules i am using FLAG [1] for triggering in AUT EXTERNAL via network and OpenShowVar
    What i've done so far: I am loading the files (6 with milling code and 1 with links to all of them) from a directory (folder 1) to the R1 folder and it is all fine.

    What i can't figure out how to do:
    1. How to start the key file with the links to the next 6 files
    2. How to start the loading of the files from the next folder

    at the moment after the copying the robot opens cell.src file and stops on INIT fold - DMY [] = "---"

    i choose to use this structure of files because there was linking errors when the files were calling each other...

    Any help appreciated! Thanks!

    CELL has to call the "key file". You have to configure DirLoader so that it temporarily comments out that call during the time period that the old copies are being deleted and the new files are being loaded.

    Also, all the files you are loading will be loaded, and linked, in alphabetical order. And because KSS performs a full linking test on each file as it loads, if you load the "key file" first, it will fail the linking test and kill the entire process, because the Milling files it's linked to have not been loaded yet. So whenever using DirLoader, you have to ensure (via alphabetical naming) that the files "lowest" in the calling hierarchy are loaded first, before any files that link to them. Having the Milling files link to each other is probably a bad idea, unless you can ensure that the links are all one-way and you control the loading order strictly.

    Thank you SkyeFire!
    Is there a way to change the loading order - not A-Z but Z-A ?

    In the DirLoader help, there is some info about commenting the links in up to 5 files with

    Code
    The function “commenting/uncommenting modules” is active: KRDLCELLCHANGE
= TRUE


    it is in page 18 in the DirLoader 1.2 manual.
    I tried to enable it but failed :frowning_face:

    Can you tell me how to configure the commenting out function?

    Hi again :smiling_face:
    i am fighting again the DirLoader as it is paid and i need to use this functionality
    Ok, long story short :winking_face: i am able to move the files from the source directory to the target one.
    I can start the main file with no issues and i managed to copy all the files without linking error - one file is calling all the others and this file name is starting with Z :smiling_face: to be copied last.
    I am stuck with stopping and canceling the active program so to be able to delete the copied modules and to copy them again.
    I am trying this functionality with KRdirLoaderSubmit.src it starts ok but just stays on this line CWRITE($CMD,STAT,MODE,TMPNAME[]):

    Code
    ;**********KUKA Directory Loader Demo APP**********************
  IF ($MODE_OP==#EX) AND (StrLen($PRO_NAME1[]) <> 0) THEN
  ;stopping the running R_INT
   IF ($PRO_STATE1==#P_ACTIVE) THEN
     strClear=StrClear(TMPNAME[])
     SWRITE(TMPNAME[],STAT,OFFSET,"STOP /R1/%s()",$PRO_NAME1[])
     CWRITE($CMD,STAT,MODE,TMPNAME[])
   ENDIF

    I suppose the program is stopped and now i need to cancel it - how can i do that if it is stopped?
    What i am missing?

    what i need to do:
    1. Copy of the first 6 files
    2. Start the key file
    3. After finishing of the key file - STOP and CANCEL it
    4. Delete the copied files
    5 -> go to N1

    Any help appreciated!

    It's easy to tell if the Level 1 program has stopped -- does the R icon on the pendant turn red?

    Anyway, I don't think you can use the STOP command like that. The STOP and CANCEL commands should not include the name of the module you're trying to top, only the interpreter number. So your CWRITE should simply look like:

    Code
    CWRITE ($CMD, STAT, MODE, "STOP 1")

    The program name is only used when using the "RUN" command.

    Thanks! Well... that was the example given by DirLoader - I am not sure how it works :frowning_face:
    In the manual it is not clear how to stop and cancel the current program, and as I am not a programmer I am struggling to continue without help.
    I am even willing to pay for the help if someone is able to help as I really want to have this DirLoader working as it should

    Hi again :smiling_face:
    it is all good with the DL, now i can copy the files, delete them, stop and cancel the level 1 programs. By hand only :thinking_face:

    All this i can do when triggering the $flag[2] - thats what i am using atm.
    I am using the variable display - just set KRDLTRIGGERVAR to true and the DL is starting, copying or deleting (depends what i set to true)

    What i cannot do is to do that automatically: I am inserting the variables etc in the CELL and i am starting the DL with the flag.
    But it seems that the code is not working - it just starting the file TEST.src from the CELL without deleting or copying anything.

    Here is the code i am using:

    What i want to do is:
    1. Deleting all from the target directory
    2. Copying all from the source directory
    3. Executing the key file
    4. Repeat

    I am correct in using the CELL.SRC or i have to use SPS.SUB for that?
    Any help appreciated!

    I'm quite certain you have to do that from the SPS.

    Basically, the Level 0 interpreter (SPS) can control the Level 1 interpreter, and vice versa. But they cannot issue Stop, Cancel, or Run commands to themselves.

    Any working DirLoader setup I've ever seen relied on the SPS to carry out the process.

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