***************************** GP-Pro EX Ver.4.0 **************************** June 2014 Digital Electronics Corporation Preface Thank you for using GP-Pro EX. GP-Pro EX is software to create logic programs and screen data for graphical operation touch panels. The Windows environment ensures operability and high performance. Please visit the Pro-face website (http://www.pro-face.com/) for the latest information. Table of Contents (0) Version (1) New Features List = V4.01.000 ===== 1-1 Support of New Models = V4.00.000 ===== 1-1 Support of New Models (2) Limitations 2-1 Editor 2-2 Display Unit 2-3 Device/PLC 2-4 WinGP (3) When Serial No. and License Key Code are not input (4) Installation and Uninstallation 4-1 Installation 4-2 Uninstallation (5) User Registration (6) Manuals (7) Fixed Defects = V4.01.000 ===== 7-1 Editor 7-2 Display Unit 7-3 Device/PLC = V4.00.000 ===== 7-1 Editor 7-2 Display Unit 7-3 Device/PLC Contents ================================================================================ (0) Version Editor: Ver.4.01.000 System/Runtime: Ver.4.1.0 (Except for GP-4100 series) Ver.4.0.0 (GP-4100 series) Sub-system/OS Core: Ver.4.1.0 (SP-5B10, GP-4200, GP-4300, GP-4400, GP-4500, GP-4600 series. Except for GP4000M series.) Ver.1.2.2 (LT4000 series) Ver.1.2.15 (GP4000M series) Ver.1.1.1 (GP-4104) Ver.1.3.3 (GP-4105, GP-4106, GP-4107) Ver.3.5.2 (ST3000 series, GP-3200 series) Ver.3.6.3 (LT-3300 series, AGP3300T/U/S/L, AGP3301S/L) Ver.3.5.1 (Other than above models) Memory Loader: Ver.4.0.0 (1) New Features List = V4.01.000 =================================================================== 1-1 Support of New Models - You can now import the recipe data of enhanced recipes. - Importing/exporting enhanced recipes You can now import and export element labels and recipe labels. - Enhanced recipe search You can now use system variables to search for enhanced recipes. - Mapped address You can now edit enhanced recipe element values on the device/PLC. - Send options When transferring an enhanced recipe to a device/PLC, you can write the enhanced recipe's label and ID to the defined address. - Function version upgraded communication driver - Beckhoff Automation GmbH TwinCAT ADS/AMS - Support TwinCAT3. - Reading a large number of array elements has been optimized. = V4.00.000 =================================================================== 1-1 Support of New Models - The following models are now supported: - GP-4000M (Rear Modular Type) - SP5000 series (Box Module) - SP-5B10 - SP-5B40 (Display Module) - SP-5400WA WVGA(800*480) - SP-5500WA WXGA(1280*800) - SP-5500TP SVGA(800*600) - SP-5600TP XGA(1024*768) - SP-5660TP XGA(1024*768) - SP-5600WA WXGA(1280*800) - SP-5700TP XGA(1024*768) - Functions supported by GP-4000 series are now supported by GC-4000 series. - Pro-face Remote HMI Server function is now supported. - Pro-face Remote HMI function is now supported on the SP5000 Series. - Pro-face Remote HMI function is now supported on the GP-4000M Series. - Server list screen now supports monitoring triggered alarms. - You can now create a project using [Create Project From Configuration File (Pro-face Device Configurator)]. - Function version upgraded communication driver - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation FX Series CPU Direct The following setting was added: FX3S Series is supported. (2) Limitations 2-1 Editor (Editor) - If you use the Project Converter and run the Comparison Tool without saving the project in GP-Pro EX, the Comparison Tool may stop working. - If you edit a project on storage which is not enough free space, it may fail to save, and then may fail to open it. - Simulation may fail to launch on Windows 8. - On GP3000 Series(except for GP-3200 series) and GP4000 Series(except for GP4000M series and GP-4100 series), if image fonts are included in a backup data transfered display unit to external storage, and then you execute [Memory Loader]-[Create Project] by the backup data, create process may keep doing. 2-2 Display Unit (Runtime) - When there are alarm parts on the global window, device/PLC address values may appear blank. - When a USB device is inserted/removed, all USB devices may not become disabled under the condition that five or more USB devices are connected at the same time using the USB HUB in GP-4000 series. If this phenomenon occurs, reset the Display. - When two or more Data Displays with "Indirect" specified are made to be invisible at the same time while displaying a pop-up keypad, some Data Display may not be invisible. - A keypad is closed while the [Alt] key on the keypad of the RPA Window Display is held down. When the keypad is opened next time, the [Alt] key remains held down. - Do not use a logic program during communication with a Device/PLC using a USB/SIO (RS422/485). If the logic program is used in the situation, a communication error may occur. - In GP4000 series (except for GP-4100 series) and LT4000 series, the buzzer sound in Ver. 3.5 is different from that in Ver. lower than 3.5. - Do not attach/detach the fingerprint authentication unit while turning on the power to the Display. Doing so, inconsistency occurs between the security data and the fingerprint data and the display of the authentication and the password setting may not operate normally. If an inconsistency occurs between them due to attachment/detachment of the fingerprint authentication unit, update the fingerprint data of the fingerprint authentication unit using the "Update DB" function. - When connecting a PLC to the GC4408, an error message may display even though there is no error. - Do not attach/detach the transfer cable while transferring to the SP5000 Series Open Box (SP-5B40). Even if the cable is detached, the unit will not detect an error. - On the Power Box(SP-5B10) of the SP5000 series, In the case of forced transfer mode, you can not transfer using LAN2. - Compared to other series, the buzzer for the Open Box's (SP-5B40) Bit Momentary switch sounds different. - The Windows task bar flickers if you continually trigger the system menu's display operation (simultaneously touch the top-right and bottom-left corners) on the SP5000 series Open Box (SP-5B40). - On the SP5000 series Open Box (SP-5B40), after transfer operation, restarting or closing WinGP causes the sound to buzzer and lights to flash in red for all lights on the EZ Tower Light. - On the SP5000 series Open Box (SP-5B40), even though there are no devices connected, in the offline menu, the Peripheral Settings screen's USB Screen shows USB equipment. - The SP5000 series Open Box (SP-5B40) cannot rotate to portrait display. - On the Open Box(SP-5B40) of the SP5000 series, When the write filter setting was changed, The setting of the write filter doesn't become effective on WinGP till restarting WinGP or changing offline mode, transfer mode. 2-3 Device/PLC - In Pro-Server EX's Device Monitor function when a Multiple Bit Write operation is performed on an array type Tag it may not write correctly. - When single bit write operation is performed on a 32-bit Tag(DINT), the 16th bit cannot be written. - When a Copy / Paste operation which results in the maximum number of Tags being exceeded no error is displayed. - When several Tag Data Files are created, the maximum number of Tags may not be checked correctly. - In Pro-Server EX's Device Monitor function the Multiple Bit Write operation may not work in some cases. - Do not use "Indirect" setting for the String type. If it is specified, data may not be displayed normally. - When STRING variables are displayed in Device Monitor of Pro-Server EX, only two characters are displayed. - Some spelling mistakes are found in English error messages. - If an error occurs during communication, set "1" or larger value for Retry Count. - When a bit device is specified in Alarm Summary, alarms of 17th bit or later are not displayed normally. If this phenomenon occurs, use the word device. - When the link parameter device is read, the communication cycle time becomes an illegal value. - In a screen where a Display Unit does not communicate with a PLC: When an access is made to the PLC using the pass-through function after the PLC is restarted, the password lock occurs to the PLC. Make connections using the pass-through function after the screen is shifted to the one where the Display Unit communicates with the PLC. - Do not write the data including the bit address with the extended recipe function. If such writing is made, a communication error may occur. - Do not input 32 or more characters for the device address in Address Input of Device Monitor. - Tag information allocated to I/O units may not be imported normally. If this phenomenon occurs, edit the data with the Editor manually. - When bit read/write for two or more points is performed to a bit-accessible word device or word type tag, an address other than the specified address may be read/written. - The pass-though function cannot be used when WinGP and IIS FTP servers are used at the same time. 2-4 WinGP - The buzzer of WinGP does not sound in PS-4700 (Z510). - When the File Manager displays a folder path and data in that folder is updated, the folder path reverts to the default path. (3) When Serial No. and License Key Code are not input - Project data cannot be transferred to the operation panels (except for GP4100 series, IPCs and PC-ATs (Used WinGP)). - Transfer using the Transfer Tool is not available for WinGP. However, using ProjectCopy, you can copy screen data and get it to work. To use ProjectCopy, click [Start]-[All Programs]-[Pro-face]-[WinGP]- [ProjectCopy] on the Windows desktop screen. However, note that ProjectCopy cannot be used in the following cases: - When system data has not been transferred - When system data has been changed WinGP automatically stops after three hours of continuous operation. * It is possible to input the serial No. and the license key code after installation of the software. Start the product and go to [Help]-[Enter Key Code]. (4) Installation and Uninstallation 4-1 Installation - Be sure to quit all application programs and close (disable) all resident programs such as virus detection software before installing the software. - Install this software using a user account with Administrator privileges. - Refer to our support site "Otasuke Pro!" (http://www.proface.com/otasuke/) for the operating environment. - By inserting a disk into the DVD drive, Setup window will appear. If the Setup window does not appear, click the desktop's [Start] button and then click [Run]. In the text input field, enter [D:\ProEX_Setup.exe] and click [OK]. (As for the "D:\" part, enter your DVD drive name.) * Some of the tools require a license. In cases below, USB transfer cables may not be recognized correctly: - When you installed the software with a USB transfer cable connected - When you started using the software without restarting your computer - 1)Insert the DVD media of Windows 8 into the DVD drive. If there is no DVD media of Windows 8 found, contact the PC manufacturer. 2)Select "Open command prompt as administrator" on the Explorer. 3)Execute the following command at the Command Prompt. Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /Source:x:\sources \sxs /LimitAccess *) For x:, specify the drive letter of Windows 8 Install Media or the DVD drive. 4-2 Uninstallation To uninstall the software, click on [Start], then select [All Programs]- [Pro-face]-[***], and execute [Uninstall]. ("***" represents the product name and version.) Project files and files in your package files will not be removed by this operation. Delete other tools from [Start]-[Control Panel]- [Add or Remove Programs]. (5) User Registration Please register your software to help us offer enhanced customer support. Since you can confirm the registered information at anytime once you register, you do not have to worry even if you lose it. To register, insert a DVD into the DVD drive, select the User Registration menu in the Set Up Menu screen and complete the online Software User Registration. You can also register after installation by starting the product and registering from [Help]-[Online User Registration]. (6) Manuals To view PDF manuals, the Adobe Reader software must be installed on your computer. Start the product and select [Manual] from the [Help(H)] menu. To view only the manuals, select [Start]-[All Programs]-[Pro-face]-[***] -[Manual].("***" represents the product name and version.) Some manuals need to be downloaded from our support site "Otasuke Pro!". (7) Fixed Defects = V4.01.000 =================================================================== 7-1 Editor (Editor) - When using the STD4S driver on the LT4000 series and you set the [2 Phase Counter] to [0-Preload], even if you turned OFF [Synchronize Output], an error (RGEE101) occurred if you changed the preload value. - When you set the [Window Type] to [Word Action] and saved the project, restarting the screen editor and reopening the project reverted the [Window Control Address] to its default value. - When the interface language was Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese or Tranditional Chinese, page breaks were in the wrong spots, causing blank pages. - When you made subroutines with many steps, the logic program editor's performance would degrade. 7-2 Display Unit (Runtime) - On the GP4000 series (except for GP-4100 series, GP-4201TM, and GP-4301TM), when you displayed historical data and showed the cursor, the graph display was abnormal. - The simulation function in GP-Pro EX V4.0 had high CPU usage. - On the SP5000 series Open Box (SP-5B40), the screen distorted when changing to offline mode. - On the SP5000 series Open Box (SP-5B40), when you set advanced display in the project data settings and premium display for the display module, either the screen did not display as a full screen, or the screen's right or bottom side extended beyond view. - Just at the moment you ran a screen capture, if the unit changed to offline or transfer mode, the run time would freeze. 7-3 Device/PLC - D-Script memory copy (from PLC to display) copies only the first address point in [Symbol] mode. - Reading STRING symbols results in error in [Symbol] mode. - Use of offset may cause a text display to read data from a wrong address in [Tag] mode. - Data in TOD and DT arrays may not be displayed properly in [Tag] mode. - GP-Pro EX may abruptly be terminated if nodes in [Tag] mode and ones in [Symbol] mode are mixed in one project. - Reading STRING symbols with more than 1414 characters in total in one screen may result in error. - Pro-Server EX allows tag data to be created and edited which can lead to a mismatch with tag data in GP-Pro EX projects. - Send monitor command when shuddown the path throgh evenif setting don't use monitor command. - Couldn't display odd elements of String variables on Omron PLC NJ in the Data Display. = V4.00.000 =================================================================== 7-1 Editor (Editor) - When a project included base screens set up with parts that referenced other base screens, moving or copying parts took longer than expected. - When running Online Monitor over a network, the connection failed and showed error "Code=8". - In the Address workspace, double-clicking the [Feature], [Location], or [Screen] column reverted the list to its default sort settings. - The Parts Toolbox and Shape Browser showed 65,535 colors instead of 65,536 colors. - When working with a LT4000 series project with an Italian, Chinese (Simplified) or Korean interface, an error appeared during error check even though there were no errors in the project. - An incorrect warning message displayed when the text table language did not match the parts and common settings using the text table. - Even if function block instructions exceeded the limit, there was no error at error check when [Share Local Variables in Function Blocks] was set to do not share. - [Semicircle Graph] did not display correctly, when the display unit's [Orientation] was [Landscape]. - The blink setting was available even though the display unit did not support blink. - If you sorted by all the items in the [Recipe Group] element list, ran [Undo] or [Redo], and then removed an element, the application ended abruptly. - You could not use the keyboard to assign a Timer variable, Counter variable, or PID variable to an instructions's input or output operand. - When you saved a project with GP4201TM(Modular Type) to version [V3.00 - V3.01], you could not open the project in the associated version of GP-Pro EX. - When you saved a project with GP-4301TM(Modular Type) and [Enable Ethernet Multilink] to version [V3.00 - V3.01], sometimes opening the project in the associated version of GP-Pro EX disabled [Enable Ethernet Multilink]. - Even though you were not supposed to be able to save a GP-4201TM(Modular Type) or GP-4301TM(Modular Type) project set up with tag data on its PLC/Device to version [V3.00 - V3.01], the save operation may have run. - When running [Compare Project], some of the differences in the [Text Table] settings appeared as [Exclusive Screen] differences. - After running [Reduce Images to 16-Bit Colors] on an image part set to 16,777,216 colors, running [Transfer Project] caused an error message to display. - There were cases when you could not convert sampling groups associated with a historical trend graph that was grouped with other objects. 7-2 Display Unit (Runtime) - After saving a project without changing any offline mode settings, there were some differences when compared with a project with the same settings. - After initializing SRAM from the WinGP offline menu, an error occasionally occurred when running CF->SRAM Transfer or SD->SRAM transfer. - On the LT3300 series and GP3300 series (except for GP-3310, GP-3360), the [Main Unit]-[Ethernet Local Settings] did not show the MAC address correctly. - When real-time printing of the alarm setting is enable ,if it shifts to offline mode after alarm generating, operations would freeze. - When security was enabled, you could not use Internet Explorer to access the FTP server. - When using image fonts in a picture display, running the [Clearing action] occasionally erased area outside the picture. - The mark display was occasionally distorted when two or more picture displays showed mark images on the same screen. - On the GP-4201TM or GP-4301TM, when you used a picture display to move a mark, occasionally after-images remained of the mark in its original position. - Updating unregistered fingerprint data appeared as a normal operation when it should have been an error. - After using the Transfer Tool to download Memory Loader backup data, comparison showed differences between internal data and storage. - When the write filter setting was enabled and you tranferred to WinGP, on restarting WinGP, it started in transfer mode. - Project transfer failed after you disabled the write filter setting while WinGP was running. - Operations would freeze when transfering a project while there was a Pro-Server EX data transfer error. - Editing or saving the CSV file in the CSV display occasionally changed the CSV file name. - Running the SD->SRAM transfer command from the offline menu occasionally added invalid content in the operation log. - The first time after a screen change the message display showed correctly, but messages did not update. - On the LT4000 series with the STD4S driver, even though you ran the PCHQ (pulse catch input clear) instruction, it occasionally did not clear the status of the pulse catch. - On the LT4000 series with the STD4S driver, even though you ran the HSCQ (stop high-speed counter) instruction, it occasionally did not change the status of the high-speed counter. - On the LT4000 series with the STD4S driver, after the special I/O parameter error's system variable (#L_ExIOSpParmErr) showed an error status, you were unable to change it back to normal status. - On the GP4000 series (except for GP-4100 series, GP-4201TM, and GP-4301TM) the date/time would reset to "2000/00/00 00:00:00". - On the GP4000 series (except for GP-4100 series, GP-4201TM, and GP-4301TM), when the SD card was not mounted and the SD Card Free Space (Memory Card Setting) was enabled, for 5 seconds after booting, the date and time showed "2000/00/00 00:00:00". - When there are frequent communication errors with the PLC, although rare, operations would freeze. - On WinGP, when the save destination for historical data was a folder and the free disk space was zero, an error message did not appear even though backup data could not save. 7-3 Device/PLC - The Wait To Send time observed in communication may not be the same as the value which has been set in the Wait To Send parameter. - For a connection with multiple NJ Series which share the same Tag Data, Numeric Data Displays do not display the correct PLC data. - On startup of the display unit, an SIO Error may occur rarely. - A Timeout Error may occur. - When the "Reference / Channel" is set to a value other than 0 in the Device-Specific Settings, communication does not work. - Depending on the connection configuration, part of the Equipment Module Tag Data that is listed in the Connection Manual is not imported. ================================================================================ Copyright (C) 2014 Digital Electronics Corporation. 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