Working with the ASCII Editor
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ASCII Editor Toolbox To insert an item either click the corresponding button or press the hot-key. Items are inserted at the cursor.
Tool Description Button Hot-Key
Text Box Up to 128 characters of text is displayed. T
Binary A placeholder for a binary field. Defined in
ladder logic using a WRIT instruction.
B
Octal A placeholder for an octal field. Defined in
ladder logic using a WRIT instruction.
O
Integer A placeholder for an integer field. Defined in
ladder logic using a WRIT instruction.
I
Hexadecimal A placeholder for a hexadecimal field. Defined
in ladder logic using a WRIT instruction.
H
Leading 0
Integer
A placeholder for a leading 0 integer field.
Defined in ladder logic using a WRIT
instruction.
L
ASCII A placeholder for an ASCII field. Defined in
ladder logic using a WRIT instruction.
A
Space Consecutive blank spaces are displayed. SPACE
Carriage
Return
Moves cursor to the next line. ENTER
Repeat A repeat is denoted by a repeat start ({) and a
repeat end (}). A repeat must have both a start
and an end.
{ - Start
} - End
Control A control character is displayed. CTRL
Flush The message buffer contains a 256 byte data
field. These bytes contain data values ranging
from 00 to FF. The flush command clears all
characters form the message buffer.
BACKSPACE
Flush Num
Bytes
Removes from 1 through 255 bytes from the
beginning of the message buffer.
N/A