It doesn't appear like there is a way, in TP at least. You could write a small Karel program to do the compare, and then call it from TP. This is assuming you have the Karel option of course.
Here's a program that will read the number of turns from a PR (PR[16] in this case), print that value to the user screen, then change the number of turns to 1. I think this demonstrates everything you asked about.
PROGRAM CONFIGDEMO
VAR
myPos : XYZWPREXT
myPR : INTEGER
noTurns : INTEGER
STATUS : INTEGER
BEGIN
myPR =16
myPos = GET_POS_REG(myPR,STATUS)
noTurns = myPos.CONFIG_DATA.CFG_TURN_NO3
WRITE TPDISPLAY(noTurns, ' Turns', CR)
myPos.CONFIG_DATA.CFG_TURN_NO3 = 1
SET_POS_REG(myPR,myPos,STATUS)
END CONFIGDEMOVery interesting topic. But I'd like to ask what you are wanting this for? There may be a simpler solution.
For example, Linear moves will ignore turn numbers and take the shortest path. Joint moves will honor the turn number, but if you do Joint MROT (minimum rotation) then you will get a joint move that ignores the turn number.
It sounds like you are wanting to command a specific turn number while doing a linear move. If that's the case then Linear Wjnt may work for you. It combines a linear move with exact turn numbers. It is not as fool proof as the Karel method, but is simple.
