+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ GP-Pro EX V2.01 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mar.27, 2007 Digital Electronics Corp. Preface Thank you for purchasing GP-Pro EX. This GP-Pro EX is a software package to create screen data for GP3000 Series graphic operation panels. Utilizing Windows environment, good operability and high performance have been achieved. Contents (0) Information about Modified Defects 0-1 Modified Defects of the Editor 0-2 Modified Defects of the Main Unit 0-3 Modified Defects of the Communication Driver (1) Cautions about Installation After installation, a message prompting you to restart the system is displayed. If you want to use a USB cable, be sure to restart it. If you select "No" and continue to use it without restart, the USB cable cannot be correctly recognized. (2) Newly Added Features (3) Information about Modified Defects (History) 3-1 Modified Defects of the Editor 3-2 Modified Defects of the Main Unit 3-3 Modified Defects of the Communication Driver (4) Known Problems 4-1 Editor Limitations 4-2 Main Unit Limitations 4-3 Converter Limitations 4-4 Movie Converter Limitations 4-5 WinGP Limitations (5) Versions Editor :Ver.2.01.000 Runtime :Ver.2.1.0 OS Core :Ver.2.1.0(AGP3200 Series) :Ver.2.1.1(Other than AGP3200 Series) Memory Loader:Ver.2.1.0 WinGP Runtime:Ver.2.1.0 =============================================================================== (0) Information about Modified Defects =========V2.01.000================================================ 0-1 Modified Defects of the Editor - Closing the Edit window took a long time. - Copying a D-script occasionally caused shutdown. - In the Current Value List WS, shutdown occasionally occurred. - The condition of fixed pins was damaged. - In Data Display, a part list did not show some addresses. - When you used many "Table" parts, unnecessary data made Editor operation heavy. - When you changed an image that had been registered with a vertical GP and then registered it again, it was rotated 90 degrees. - Operating a part list with a mouse occasionally caused shutdown. - Changing the status-bar display using the menu while editing a part list caused shutdown. - Performing Undo after opening the Common Settings window caused shutdown. - Specifying a non-text file to import symbol variables caused shutdown. - Clicking the Edit button in the Common Settings window after moving from the monitor step to the edit step caused shutdown. - In Simulation, when the COM port you specified in the Script Settings did not exist on the PC, an error message was displayed. - In Simulation, dark-color blink occasionally appeared although a monochrome model has only black-blink function. - In the Individual Device Setting dialog, device names were incompletely displayed. - In Alarm, you could not enter an item name longer than 99 characters. - When you selected "Connect to the support site Otasuke Pro" from the menu, shutdown occasionally occurred. - When PC and AGP had different symbol variable data, retention transfer was not performed properly. - If the root of a USB removable disk was set to the CF-card output folder, the transfer tool issued an error. - If a multilanguage text screen had no character set on it, you could not convert it. - If you converted a PRW file including a logic to jump to an END label into EX, you could not the converted data. - The project file of the Rockwell SLC500 series created with GP-PRO/PB3(C-Package) was not correctly converted in some cases. 0-2 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (OS Core AGP3200 Series V2.1.0, Other than AGP3200 Series V2.1.1) - If you connected multiple USB devices at a time and inserted and removed one of them, connection with the USB devices was unavailable in rare cases. - On AGP3200T, the whole screen deviated downward by 1 dot. - In offline check of the touch panel of AGP3200 Series, touch actions did not have any effect in rare cases. - AGP3200 Series would not start in rare cases. - Even when the backup battery needed charging, AGP3200 Series did not display any message. (Runtime V2.1.0j - When you tried to rotate a fixed-size font of 13x23 90 degrees and display it on WinGP, shutdown occurred. - AGP3200A could not display a 8-dot-linewidth circle/ellipse. - When the screen-change source and destination had a switch in the same position, the [[#MEMLINK]0010] switch on the destination screen was enabled in some cases although it should be normally disabled. - When you placed a momentary switch on a screen of AGP3200 Series, the switch occasionally did not work properly. - When you changed screens with an OFF-delay switch, subsequent touch-inputs became disabled in some cases. - If you changed screens from a global window, the display of switches occasionally remained in reversed condition. - In Date Display, when you used a fixed-size font, a 1-dot line appeared on the extreme right in some cases. - When a screen with a historical trend graph on it called a screen and the called screen called another screen, the destination screen data was not displayed. - When you turned ON the sampling clear bit, the historical trend graph display was not updated until the next sampling. - In AGP3200A, when you moved a mark in Graphic Display, the mark at the initial position was not deleted. - In AGP3200 Series, when you tried to display a CF image using JPEG in Graphic Display, it got frozen. - Immediately after screen change, user-defined D-script functions did not work in some cases. - Executing CSV data transfer occasionally slowed communication with PLCs. - In WinGP, when "Use level 15 password to go offline" was enabled, trying to go back online from offline occasionally displayed an improper password- input screen and shut down WinGP. - When COM1 port was selected in the Printer Settings, printing was not available. - In offline Movie Settings, when you tried to select a file in a CF card that contained no file/folder, it got frozen. - In the standby mode, even if you tried to change screens from the screen- change address in the system area, it did not come out of the standby mode. - In AGP3200 Series, even if you chose "Screen OFF" for the standby mode, the screen remained ON after the specified period of time had elapsed. - When watchdog was enabled in the Main Unit Settings, it occasionally got frozen. - In AGP3200 Series, when project transfer was set to "Automatic", the system occasionally restart. - When you specified the WinGP installation destination to the root folder of the drive, project automatic transfer failed. - Even when the PBC instruction got ON, the operand (D1) remained OFF. - While a timer instruction was working, the current value could not be changed. - Even if you changed the current value of a counter instruction, the output bit did not reflect the change. - When there were too much data written to a device, device address data was not displayed on the screen properly in some cases. - Branches were not correctly displayed in some cases.
- Details of arrays and structure variables were not displayed in some cases. - When you executed recipe download from ProServerEX to WinGP, one of MES ACTIONs, in the environment where a 4GB medium or higher was set as the reference folder in the WinGP, downloading failed displaying an error. - In WinGP, when the Connection Method was set to COM Port, communication rate with the device was occasionally slow. 0-3 Modified Defects of the Communication Driver Mitsubishi Electric Corporation FX Series CPU Direct - Even when Mitsubishi FX1CPU was connected, communication was not available. - Even when communication was not available, no communication error was displayed. Schneider Electric Industries MODBUS Slave - In n:1 communication via RS422/485(2-wire), no response was made in some cases. - The timeout value between characters, which is necessary for normal reception, was higher than the value defined in the specification. Digital Electronics Corp. Memory Link - During communication with the host, a receive error occasionally occurred. Yasukawa Electric Corp. MEMOBUS SIO - In GL Series, you could not write data to the address of 31XXX. Rockwell Automation, Inc. Ethernet/IP - When you specified an out-of-range offset for a Boolean device, no error was issued. - Data was written to an invalid address of a Boolean device in some cases. - You could continually specify bit members of an array of structures. - You could continually specify Boolean symbols. - When you specified more than 255 characters as a device, Pro-Studio EX occasionally shut down. Pass-Through function - When the pass-through is installed in the computer, the COM port could not be accessed in the USER authority. (2) Newly Added Features - The following models are now available. =========V2.01.000================================================ PS-3711A PS-3710A =========V2.00.000================================================ LT-3201A PS-3651A PS-3650A PS-3700A PS-2000B AGP-3200T AGP-3200A AGP-3510T AGP-3560T - Pro-face offers multi-platform environment for versatile application by supporting WinGP where equivalent functions to those of GP3000 Series are available on IPC. This software realizes programless communication with Pro-Server EX, securing coordination with other applications through API. - You can edit a program during "Run" without stopping control function, which assures easy maintenance. - Improved Editor operability ensures easy development. - By connecting a GP3000 Series model and a PC via the Ethernet, it is possible to display the PC screen on the GP. You can not only monitor the screen of an upper PC in a remote location but also operate it. - Without connecting displays or PLCs, it is possible to arbitrarily change device values and do screen simulation. Easy development and maintenance have been realized. - To save alarm history or filing data, you can use a USB memory as well as a CF card. - Ladder monitor function (Mitsubishi PLC Q Series) allows you to check ladder programs without stopping the screen of a display. You can check ladder condition easily even when some trouble happens. - Device monitor function makes development and maintenance easy. - New protocols have been added and existing protocol upgraded. - You can easily create fine screens with provided image files and newly supported image-watermarking function. - Pass-Through function has been newly added to the following drivers: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation FX Series CPU Direct OMRON Corp. CS/CJ series HOST Link (3) Information about Modified Defects (History) 3-1 Modified Defects of the Editor - On the Editor, a Cyrillic character was counted as two in the conversion of inputted-character count. - In the Text Editor, if you set characters including half-width ones, a line break was occasionally inserted in the middle of the characters. - In the Text Table, when you only opened and then closed the Language Setting dialog, some parts of the texts disappeared in some cases. - The Cyrillic characters displayed in the input dialog were double-byte characters although they were displayed in single byte on the screen. - In the Text Properties window, when you changed the display language, shutdown occasionally occurred. - When you tried to directly input "g", occasionally "q" was displayed. - When addressing system was selected, if you used a bit-variable-type logic address on the screen, the address became invalid in some cases. - In some cases, if you monitored an instruction that allocated a whole array with 2-4 elements to an operand, shutdown occurred. - In the Screen List window, if you positioned the cursor to "Logic Screen" or "I/O Screen" and pressed the Enter key, shutdown occasionally occurred. - In the NSET instruction, if you monitored the date of "64/01/01" or later, incorrect current values were shown. - When you changed to the monitor step while editing, the whole project was always transferred although it was set that only differences were to be transferred. - In some cases, if you monitored an AGP to which a prx file was transferred with an upper version, shutdown occurred. - In some cases, if you selected a branch on a logic program with the mouse and right-clicked to delete it, shutdown occurred. - If you monitored a variable with only one array element, the displayed current value was always "0". - In some cases, while the Editor was connected to an AGP via LAN, changing to the monitor step caused shutdown. - When the security setting was disabled, you could not monitor a project in which the monitor security was set to an arbitrary level. - While you were setting filing operation, if you failed in the monitor mode, the contents disappeared. - In the S-No. setting of FLEX NETWORK Driver, even when you inputted an invalid value, no error was generated in some cases. - In a logic program, when you Copied and Pasted a TON instruction to which a timer variable beginning with a double-byte number had been allocated, shutdown occasionally occurred. - When you switched devices, the USR-area address occasionally became "Undefined". - When you switched devices, extended SIO scripts occasionally disappeared. - After changing devices, in some cases, the LS device remained in a project that has only memory link. - When you click the x-mark to the right while inputting double-byte characters in the execution-expression area, shutdown occasionally occurred. - After changing a device related to memory link, a script including LS Device was not correctly converted. - Replace operation could cause shutdown. - In a user-defined function, if you changed the name afterward, it would not be detected in cross-reference check. - In Global D-Script, if you clicked the "Input Number" control after you dragged the "Input Address" link label while holding it down, it did not work correctly. - In some cases, Korean could not be normally inputted. - In Graphic Display, reloading a project changed dashed lines into straight lines. - In Graphic Display, a different list was occasionally displayed in the state- selection dropdown-list field. - In some cases, the video number of the VM unit display returned to 1. - In the Parts List window, it was impossible to display two or more labels. - The outer frame of a plane part was different between Editor and AGP. - In the Lamp function of Word Switch, when you used the State 2 or higher, shutdown occasionally occurred. - In the text settings of Data Display, unnecessary addresses were occasionally displayed in the cross-reference field. - In the text settings of Data Display, when you set a symbol, the displayed contiguous devices were incorrect. - In the text display of Message Display, unnecessary addresses were occasionally displayed in the screen-data list. - When you placed File Manager and Numeric Display at a time, in some cases, you did not get any errors. - Copy and Paste was not available for graph parts which you had converted with Project Converter. - In duplication, address addition did not work as you had specified. - After duplication, the placed position occasionally deviated by 1 dot. - If copy from another project was executed when two devices were set, shutdown occasionally occurred. - If you executed Undo after screen deletion, the reference destination of the image layout occasionally disappeared. - If you executed Undo after copying a screen and pasting it on the same screen, the reference destination of the image layout occasionally disappeared. - When you operated from the system setting workspace that was floating, shutdown occurred in some cases. - In the Parts List window, if you executed Undo, shutdown occurred in some cases. - Occasionally, the placement result was off the grid. - After CSV data was imported, texts sometimes moved to the left. - While you were working on the Language Setting dialog, shutdown occasionally occurred. - Due to a problem in the text conversion method, an invalid CSV file could be imported. When you modified this file, shutdown occasionally occurred. - Sampling block printing was not available. - Due to a problem in the text conversion method, when you read an existing project, shutdown occasionally occurred. - If two or more protocols including Ethernet/IP by Rockwell Automation, Inc. were set, communication error occasionally occurred. - When no control tag setting existed in Ethernet/IP by Rockwell Automation, Inc., it was impossible to open the project. - After changing Profibus-DP address, if you repeated exit operation, it occasionally got impossible to start the Editor. - When Japanese OS was specified in the PC environment and Czech was selected in "Regional and Language Settings", the Editor would not start. - When the Editor menu was in English, alarm messages in traditional Chinese were not displayed. - In some cases, frequent execution of Redisplay on the Part Shape Browser caused shutdown. - The IP address control of the printer setting had a problem. - In the screen information list, headers and footers were not printed. - When the CF-card folder specified as the output destination did not exist, it was impossible to save the project. - A bitmap that has 1Mb or more of registered images was not displayed on the Editor. - The text of a package-registered part were unclearly displayed. - Even after you changed a display to a monochrome model, the shape browser was occasionally displayed in color. - If you performed view change while the operation setting tab was inactive, the [Main Unit Setting]-[Operation Setting]-[System Password Setting] returned to the default. - In the Alarm Automatic Allocation dialog, addresses were reset in some cases. - In some cases, CSV was not displayed as a display item of the file list of CSV Data Transfer. - When movie setting (movie file, playback list) existed, it was impossible to save the project file with another name. - In the OS Language Setting, if you specified an OS that had no language setting and tried to add filing data to a CF card, shutdown occasionally occurred. - In Call Screen, the send data capacity was different from the capacity displayed in the Screen Information. - In the Parts List screen, even when a label had two or more states, only one of them could be displayed. - In Alarm Settings, the message field in its input state sometimes moved to the left by 1 byte. - In the Screen Data list, symbol address information was not shown. - If you deleted an IOI file and imported it again, the watchdog timer addresses preset in it occasionally changed. - After you moved to the monitor mode and if a communication error occurred, moving to the transfer mode occasionally caused shutdown. - Executing retention transfer zeroed out the setting values of the nonretained timer variable and counter variable. - When you performed normal automatic transfer after executing retention transfer, although you disabled retention transfer in the settings, retention variables were kept in some cases. - After reception of a project including CF-card data, there were differences between the contents of the receiving folder and the project information in some cases. - In Ethernet transfer, all of the buttons got unavailable in some cases. - In some cases, data in the CF-card folder could not be sent to the CF-card of an AGP. - In some cases, the comparison tool did not work normally. - When LS/LSS variables were used in a logic program, their addresses were invalid. - When the LS/LSS variable used in a logic program had any comments, you could not open the project after conversion. - A project in which a control variable had been allocated to a control address in a trend graph could not be converted correctly. - A line-chart screen without channel setting could not be converted correctly. - When 257 bit variables or more were mapped to the I/O driver terminal, conversion could not be executed correctly. - When the whole array of #IOStatus was allocated to the operand of a logical instruction, conversion could not be executed correctly. - When you converted a project selecting a GP model and transferred it to an AGP, the LED on the front of the AGP blinked. - When a negative value was included in the setting data (output limit value etc.) of a PID instruction, conversion could not be executed correctly. - When an integer constant was allocated to the first operand of a PID instruction, conversion could not be executed correctly. - If you executed address block conversion after conversion, you could not save the file. - If you registered a similar image part after conversion, the size was not the same. 3-2 Modified Defects of the Main Unit - If you executed download using a memory loader with OS core V1.7.4 or earlier to a large-size AGP in which OS core V1.7.5-V2.0.0 has already been installed, the AGP did not start in some cases. - When you touched a switch having an interlock switch immediately after screen change, it occasionally worked in spite of interlock state. - If you placed a certain switch outside a window screen, fill omission occurred when the window was displayed. - If you touched a switch set in reverse video at the same time as the window was displayed, the switch remained in reversed condition. - In Data Display, when you set the address type to address specification and the data type to 32bit, you occasionally could not refer USR29998 or 29999 and an error message was displayed. - In Numeric Display, when the input permission was enabled and "start by bit" was selected, if the trigger bit had been set before screen change, it was sometimes impossible to go into the input mode. - When Date Display was rotated and set, it was not displayed correctly. - In Statistic Display, if float was selected and a negative value was stored, the displayed percentage exceeded 100. - In CF graphic display, if a certain kanji character was included in a file name, the file was not displayed. - When delete operation was enabled in the ON/OFF display settings, after you called the base screen and placed a text from a text table on it, if you display and then delete it, the area where the text had existed was blacked out. - In Move Display, a graphic containing a filled polygon was occasionally displayed improperly. - The calculation result of SRAM usage was different from that of the Editor. - When Text ASCII Mode was selected in the Printer Settings, executing Block Print sometimes printed the last line repeatedly, and the print process did not end. - In the case no registered message existed and you were setting a summary part, hang-up occurred at the time of screen display. - In Flow Alarm, displayed characters were occasionally crushed. - In [Sampling]-[Block Print], if you executed block print before sampling, block print was performed as many times as the sampling number. - When you cleared sampling operation, a communication error occasionally occurred. - When you automatically saved sampling data in CSV, although the save operation was completed, the status became write error in some cases. - If the data full-bit address was not set, automatic CSV saving could not be executed. - When two or more groups were set in sampling, if Line Graph Data for GP-PRO/PB3 (compatible) or Data of Data Sampling (compatible) was executed in save Data of System Settings, the stored data size was large in some cases. - In AGP3300 Series, when scroll was needed in the normal setting, it was not displayed correctly in some cases. - In normal settings, when there was an unset address in the channel settings, if you switched screens back to the line graph screen after scrolling, line graph data sometimes was not displayed properly. - In the input display settings, when you set the bit length to 1 and the input sign to the two's complement, the displayed contents were not correct. - When the sampling count, display data count, and scroll count in the settings were the same, if you went into the show-history mode and then executed "Back", it did not work in some cases. - When the sampling count, display data count, and scroll count in the settings were the same, if you scrolled, stopped sampling, went into the show-history mode, and then released the show-history mode, you found the screen scrolled against your intention. - When a mark screen was called by the base screen 9000s, and the base screen was called by another screen, the redraw operation of line graph data did not always work. - When you set the channel-data-storage address to 0 and executed display, line graph update stopped and a system error occurred in some cases. - In the case of scale display, out-of-range data sometimes could not be displayed properly. - Contrary to specifications, when an invalid address was set in Global D-Script, the control did not go into the normal-transfer mode. - If you set the display mode to the internal VM, switched screens, and displayed the movie display part again, the movie could not be played in some cases. - When you stored movie data in a CF card and then fast-forwarded it, it occasionally advanced like frame-by-frame. - While a movie in a playback list was being played, playback from File Manager was unavailable. - When FTP was selected in Movie Selection of File Manager, trying to have access with suspended IIS setting caused hang-up. - If you changed the coordinate of the window displayed by indirect video-window specification, a system error or restart occasionally occurred. - In the CSV data transfer function, when you failed to delete a file, the error status was not "8: File Deletion Error". - When 32-bit was selected and 1024 pieces or more data were set in condition operation, the 1025th and all the following data pieces were set as different values. - In the CSV data transfer function, even though you set "signed 32-bit" in "address operation" and executed PLC->CF, the data was written without signs. - In the CSV data transfer display, even when no CF card was inserted, the status was not set as Error. - After changing the standby-mode screen, when you tried to put the CSV display into the edit mode while File Manager was displayed, it did not shift into the edit mode but changed to another screen. - In a file operation "CF<-->USB Storage", when files in the USB storage were shown, the display position of an error message was not correct. - In a file operation "CF<-->USB Storage" using a vertical model, part of the message displayed when you cancelled deletion was not updated. - In a file operation "CF<-->USB Storage", the error message shown when you tried to delete a read-only file was not correct. - In the case of Memory Link connection, even if you tried to release forced screen change from the host, occasionally you failed. - In some cases, when you clicked "back to the previous screen switch", standby screen appeared instead. - When Stroke Font was used, if you frequently updated the display, hang-up occurred in some cases. - Updating the display occasionally took much time when the image file to call was in a CF card. - If you continuously execute barcode readout with a barcode reader, very occasionally the first line is omitted. - If you connected/disconnected the USB cable while printing, the printing job became impossible to continue. - Touch Input of System Menu occasionally did not work properly. - When you downloaded a project data whose allowable maximum number of devices was set to 64 or more in the device settings, hang-up occurred. - When you could not initialize LAN Port normally, screens could not be shown in some cases. - While the control function stops, the LED blinks in green. When it went into the operation mode due to automatic transfer while the LED was OFF, it did not light up. - When backlight shutoff was detected, if the display went OFF because of going into standby mode etc. and then went ON again, even though the backlight got able to normally light up again, the front LED remained orange. - When no screen data existed, if you executed automatic transfer and then cancelled screen transfer after going into the transfer mode, the "Project data error" message was displayed. - Between the Output Setting of PID Instruction "User Settings: 0-4095" and "Fixed: 0-4095", behavior was different. -"Run at Start Up" Setting and the system variable value were occasionally different. - When you showed an array variable using the address monitor, AGP occasionally got inoperable. - When you changed screens from the standby-mode screen to another while logic monitor was displayed, a ladder was displayed in the latter screen. - When you executed transfer from the Editor while the password-input screen for changing to the logic monitor screen was displayed, AGP occasionally got inoperable. - Even during forced screen switching, it was possible to go into the logic monitor screen. - In some cases, the button to switch "RUN/STOP" of the control was improperly displayed. - After an error occurred in FLEX NETWORK connection and then error correction was performed, the error LED on the main unit did not go out in some cases. - When the FLEX NETWORK high-speed counter unit "FN-HC10SK41" was set, starting AGP caused a "Counter comm. error". - When you went offline from the operation mode, time data sometimes went out of true. - In USB information of peripheral device settings, USB-SIO conversion cable was not displayed. - When you went offline during screen capture, hang-up sometimes occurred. - Wording on part of the video display condition adjustment screen was modified. - After initializing SRAM data, if you outputted the SRAM data into a CF card and then wrote it back to the SRAM, an error occurred. - In a middle-size model, when displayed in English, ":" is not displayed on system information screens. - In the factory preset mode (OS Core V1.5.0 or earlier), CF Memory Loader was not activated. - In the system info display, if you checked a project in which two or more devices were set, a system error occurred in some cases. - After executing upload, when you clicked the Start button again and then clicked the [x] button in the overwrite confirmation message window, upload started again. - A read-only file could be deleted. - Switching to the System Info screen occasionally caused hang-up. - You could not download backup data created from the project selecting an AGP (AGP3***-D81) with an internal DIO I/O board to an AGP with an internal source-type DIO board when the backup data to download was in a CF card. 3-3 Modified Defects of the Communication Driver Mitsubishi Electric Corporation FX Series CPU Direct - While extended-file-register reading was being executed, wrong data was occasionally shown. - The read-out of Timer/Counter Contact was not always correctly displayed. -QUTE Series CPU Direct - The value of Timer Contact or Timer Coil was not always correctly displayed. - A communication error (connected device does not reply) occasionally occurred. -Q Series CPU Direct - When an unsupported CPU was connected, a communication error was not displayed in some cases. -QnA Series CPU Direct - The value of Timer Contact or Timer Coil was not always correctly displayed. OMRON Corp. C/CV series HOST Link - Baud rate of 38400 or more is newly supported. YOKOGAWA Electric Corp. - Personal Computer Link SIO - Personal Computer Link Ethernet - When you pressed a momentary switch, a lamp which had another address was turned ON for a brief flash in some cases. Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems - H Series SIO - If you started H Series SIO Driver using COM1 and COM2 of GP at a time, a response error was occasionally displayed. Rockwell Automation, Inc. EtnerNet/IP - Structure could not be deleted. - When the IOI file was large, it occasionally took time to display the address input window. - In the IOI file structure setting, when you selected an already-defined structure name, the input field became grayed out in some cases. - The size limitation of the IOI file was changed. DH-485, DF1 - When you monitored bit addresses from ProServerEX, the bits improperly turned ON/OFF. DH-485, DF1, Ethernet/IP - Float-Device L/H of PLC-5, which was incorrect, was modified. DF1 - When the baud rate was 38400bps, display updating was occasionally slow. Siemens AG SIMATIC S7 MPI Direct, SIMATIC S7 3964(R)/RK512, SIMATIC S7 Ethernet - When you monitored bit addresses from ProServerEX, the bits improperly turned ON/OFF. SIMATIC S7 MPI Direct - An improper alarm was occasionally issued. - When two or more devices were connected to the PROFIBUS Network, communication occasionally became unavailable. PROFIBUS International PROFIBUS DP Slave - If you set the input/output of the Direct I/O to "0 words", the GP occasionally froze. - When you monitored bit addresses from ProServerEX, the bits improperly turned ON/OFF. (4) Known Problems 4-1 Editor Limitations The followings are known problems and limitations in the editor of this version. - After search, when you group the objects, it becomes impossible to edit them from the search-result list. If you need to edit them, execute search again. - In the search workspace, if you input an invalid address and execute search, shutdown occasionally occurs. - Even if you set a fixed pin in a part, when you save the project and open it again, the setting is turned off. - In image placement using a vertical model, if you change the source image file, the image rotated 90 degrees is registered. Execute new placement again. - If you execute error check in a project that has numerous screens, you may not be able to detect errors. - Some lamps are improperly displayed on the Editor. - If you select the flask-shaped picture in Tank Graph, the drawing function does not work properly. - When you draw a scale of a circle, semicircle, or meter graph, it may deviate. - In some cases, the number of addresses stored in "Device and Address Code" is not correctly displayed in the dialog. - In some cases during transfer, if AGP goes offline and communication is made unavailable, depending on the line condition, timeout does not occur. - Depending on the timing, the Break button may not work. - In some cases, the comparison tool does not work normally. - 30000 or more characters of script cannot be converted properly. ============================================================================= 4-2 Main Unit Limitations The followings are known problems and limitations in the main unit of this version. - When you scroll historical-trend view, redrawing the data takes a considerable time, which may temporarily delay communication. - In the specification, "a real variable" cannot be specified in D-Script as a constantly readout device. However, no error message is displayed. - Prolonged FTP storage may cause storage failure. - While FTP server is stopped or suspended, even if you try to play an FTP movie file from File Manager, no error is set in the status of Movie Display. - When you use a USB keyboard and a popup keyboard at a time and Caps Lock is ON, input from the popup keyboard is not recognized correctly. - When Caps Lock of a popup keyboard is ON, if you input [Ctrl]+alpha and [Alt]+alpha, they are recognized as [Shift]+[Ctrl]+alpha and [Shift]+ [Alt]+alpha respectively. alpha: arbitrary key entry - When an English or Thai stroke font or ornament font is selected, and if the font size is 6, 16, 17, or 18 dots, characters are not displayed in bold. - In some cases, unnecessary one-byte spaces are inserted in an error message. - If you transfer project data while recipe data is being transferred to a PLC, transfer fails. - In AGP3200 Series, when project transfer is set to "Automatic", the machine occasionally restarts. -C/CV Series HOST Link - When you try to display TIM addresses on Numeric Display (Data Type: DEC), the indicated values are different from those of GP2000 Series. GP2000 Series shows BCD values, while GP3000 Series shows DEC values. ============================================================================= 4-3 Converter Limitations The followings are known problems and limitations in the converter of this version. - If the variable types of instruction operands on a logic program are different, they are all changed to an identical type after conversion. - DIO drivers and uni-wire drivers are all converted into FLEX NETWORK drivers. - The LS variables used on logic programs and screens are all converted to LS devices. Also, the 16th-31st bit reference, byte reference, and word reference of LS variables are converted as undefined symbols. - The integer array variables allocated to PID instructions are converted to PID variables. Also, the bit references of the integer array variables are converted as undefined symbols. - If what used as elements of "array", "word reference", "byte reference", or "bit reference" are neither integer constants nor integer variables, the operands are converted as undefined symbols. (Ex: Integer Array[Integer Array[Constant]], Integer Variable.W[Integer Array[Constant]], Integer Variable.B[Timer.ET], Integer Variable.X [Counter.CV]) - A project in which the GP model is set to LT Series cannot be converted. - A project including a symbol and a variable with the same name cannot be converted properly. ============================================================================= 4-4 Movie Converter Limitations The followings are known problems and limitations in the movie converter of this version. - In the Image Setting dialog, set the "Bit Rate" to 4294967294 or less. If a value exceeding 4294967294 is inputted, the number of frames becomes an invalid value, which may prevent you from setting a normal value. In this case, restart the movie converter and configure it again. The frame count is 29.97fps and the bit rate is 384000bps by default. - The following are displayed in the language of currently used OS regardless of the language setting of the movie converter. - The Cancel button in the confirmation dialog of "delete from conversion list" - The Cancel button in the Language Setting confirmation dialog - File Selection dialog - In the File Selection dialog, what displayed as an arrow in Japanese is displayed as two vertical bars in English. - As log data, the date and time of each conversion operation, Start, End, and Break are stored. Conversion errors are not included in the log. - If you execute "Start Conversion" from the menu, it is not registered in the log. - When Extension LOG has no associated application, even if you select "View Log(V)" from the menu, no log is displayed. You must associate an application such as Notepad with Extension LOG. ============================================================================= 4-5 WinGP Limitations If you install Pro-Server with Pro-Studio for Windows or Pro-Server EX in an IPC in which WinGP has already been installed, WinGP may not work properly. Detailed behavior is shown below. (1) If you try to install Pro-Server with Pro-Studio for Windows, both Pro-Server with Pro-Studio for Windows and WinGP become inoperable. Be sure not to install Pro-Server with Pro-Studio for Windows in an IPC in which WinGP has already been installed. (2) If you try to install Pro-Server EX Ver1.10 or earlier, the following error message is displayed immediately after the installer of Pro-Server EX Ver1.10 or earlier starts, and installation cannot be performed. Although Pro-Server EX has not been installed, the displayed error message is as follows. "Another version of Pro-Server EX has been installed. Please uninstall it first and then execute installation." To use API communication on Windows XP SP2, be sure to execute Windows Update to put the following patch. "Update Program for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (KB884020)" If you use API communication without putting this patch, an error occurs although the condition allows proper operation. - If you use Ethernet UDP communication in WinGP, communication error (received data error) may occur because of the loads caused by other applications. In this case, change the receive time-out period so that it becomes longer than the default (3s). 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