++++++++++++++++++++++++ GP-Pro EX V1.01.000 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Apr.21, 2006 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 (V1.01.000) 0-2 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (V1.1.0) 0-3 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (External Devices) (1) Newly Added Features (2) 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. (3) Known Problems 3-1 Editor Limitations 3-2 Main Unit Limitations (4) Information about Defects Modified in the Past V1.00.008 4-1 Modified Defects of the Editor (V1.00.008) V1.00.007 4-2 Modified Defects of the Editor (V1.00.007) 4-3 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (V1.0.6) V1.00.006 4-4 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (V1.0.5) V1.00.005 4-5 Modified Defects of the Editor (V1.00.005) 4-6 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (V1.0.4) V1.00.004 4-7 Modified Defects of the Editor (V1.00.004) 4-8 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (V1.0.2) V1.00.003 4-9 Modified Defects of the Editor (V1.00.003) 4-10 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (V1.0.1) =========V1.01.000===================================================== 0-1 Modified Defects of the Editor (V1.01.000) When D-scripts were converted, if a PLC of YASUKAWA Electric Corp. was selected, the conversion was not properly performed. 0-2 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (V1.1.0) While a D-script calling a user-defined function worked, in some cases, a "RAAA007: The max num. of parts used at a time was exceeded" error occurred. 0-3 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (External Devices) - Memory Link In memory link serial communication, the data format outputted by a touch interrupt in the extend mode was incorrect. - FX Series CPU Direct When CF-card data was configured, the following error occurred, and GP could not start. "Invalid data transfer or undefined device address. Check the settings and transfer the project data again." - Q/QnA Series Ethernet If a project of C-Package had a device using an extended file register, in some cases, the converted address got "Undefined". While the extended file register was read out, in some cases, an Out of Address Range (4031) error occurred. - CS/CJ Series Ethernet In some cases, accessing a PLC device via a network caused a communication error. - MODBUS SIO Master - MODBUS TCP Master Bit write to a holding register cleared all the bits other than the specified one. - DH485 In some cases during communication, if you went offline and then went back online without making any changes, communication did not resume. ======================================================================== (1) Newly Added Features 1-1 AGP is loaded with Pro-Server EX. ======================================================================== (3) Known Problems 3-1. Editor Limitations The followings are known problems and limitations in the editor of this version. - 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. - When a monochrome model is selected, a colored sample is not displayed in monochrome. - When a 32-bit device is specified as the start address of a system, and the length of the LS area is 32 bits, the 16th-31st bit can be set. - When a vertical model is selected, there may be difference of the Fill pattern between the vertical model and the main unit. ====================================================================== 3-2. Main Unit Limitations The followings are known problems and limitations in the main unit of this version. - If a sampling display has the following settings, its display processing may be getting slower and slower. - The number of sampling times is too high (5000 or more). - In Display/CSV Settings, the Max/Min of Calculation Rows is specified. However, sampling operation is carried on. - In a sampling display, when the no. of display rows in Display/CSV Settings is fewer than that of the display, executing Clear during high-speed sampling may only rarely display data on a row that has no display setting. - In a sampling display, when you switch to a screen with a pasted part displaying groups which sample a large amount of data, it may take long. - In Sampling Settings, when the max capacity is exceeded (the excess groups are not sampled), executing "Save to CF-Card" to save system settings may output an invalid CSV file. - In the feature of Write Data in Sampling, when the data part and the calculation part have different data types, executing Write Calculation Data writes data in the format specified in Data Settings. - In Sampling Time Specification, if the date of the end time is the next day of the start time, and you turn back the clock to before the start time, the sampling data may become a read-error data dated the next day. - In a data display part, if the data type is 32-bit and the address type is "Address" or "Device Type & Address", specifying an address within 4 words from the last address may cause an out-of-range error. - When you try to save a large amount of sampling data using the feature of "Save to CF-Card" in the Sampling Feature, it may take long. - When you try to save a large amount of sampling data by means of "Save Line Chart to CF-Card" using the feature of "Save to CF-Card" in the System Settings, it may take long. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Q Series CPU Direct - When you write data, using a bit device, to an out-of-range bit address, an invalid address is displayed in the out-of-range address error display. Using a TS/TC/SS/SC/CS/CC device, also when you read data from an out-of-range bit address, an invalid address is displayed in the out-of-range address error display. Schneider Electric Industries MODBUS SIO Master MODBUS TCP Master - A part of the function codes in the Individual Setting Devices window given in the Device Settings in the manual are wrong. Input Register Continuous Read and Holding Register Continuous Read should be (04H) and (03H), respectively. ======================================================================== (4) Information about Modified Defects =========V1.00.008================================================== 4-1 Modified Defects of the Editor (V1.00.008) - Saving data again and again kept consuming memory without freeing any of it, which made further saving impossible in some cases. - In some cases, when you converted project data of GP-PROPB3 using image data, the sizes of image parts were not converted properly. (V1.00.003-) =========V1.00.007================================================== 4-2 Modified Defects of the Editor (V1.00.007) - In some cases, when mirror inversion was executed during editing, switch labels were misaligned. - In some cases, while the screen was split into right and left, editing operation in the Properties window caused forced termination. - In some cases, Paste in the menu could not be enabled. - Copying a screen from another project changed the trigger conditions of D-Scripts back to the default. - In some cases, an image font set over multiple lines was not displayed correctly. - When the address was changed, alarm settings were changed back to the default. - The interlock address was changed back to the default when another item was set. - When symbol setting was performed in MODBUS MASTER, although the L/H setting was changed, it was not reflected in the address allocated to the symbol. 4-3 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (V1.0.6) - In some cases, when you called a user-defined function in a D-Script on a global window and then switched base windows, the main unit hung. - In some cases, when you called the same user-defined function in D-Scripts in multiple windows and then open/close a window, the main unit hung. - In some cases, if the interlock function was enabled while you touched a switch part with interlock function, even if you touched another switch part, the buzzer did not sound. =========V1.00.006 ================================================= 4-4 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (V1.0.5) - When the ESC/P mode was selected, some printers performed page break at each line while printing a text. - In some cases, the CF_csv_read() function did not read CSV files properly. - In some cases, when the operator of arithmetic processing was set to logical OR (|) and the data format was BCD, the operation results were different from those of GP2000 Series. =========V1.00.005 ================================================= 4-5 Modified Defects of the Editor (V1.00.005) - In some cases, when you converted project data containing a lot of image parts etc., forced termination occurred. 4-6 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (V1.0.4) - In some cases, when you used CF-Card Free Space Storage Settings and File Manager at the same time, executing Add/Delete File did not update the free space. - In some cases, when you applied Bold to both Stroke Font and Standard Font at the same time, the Standard Font was not made Bold. - In some cases, when you set the Initial Screen No. to a nonexistent one, going offline or transfer got impossible. - When you performed the COM1/COM2/LAN Check in the Maintenance Menu, the loop back check of RS422 always resulted in NG. - The screen flicker caused by screen change in a condition with background color has improved. =========V1.00.004 ================================================= 4-7 Modified Defects of the Editor (V1.00.004) - In some cases, overwrite confirmation of data edit caused forced termination. - In some cases, Input Error dialog was displayed 3 times. - Copying screens of other projects again and again kept consuming memory without freeing any of it. - When you placed Call Screen, it deviated to the left by 8 dots. - When the screen was split into right and left, and you tried to change the attributes of a part placed in the active window using the Property window, forced termination occurred in some cases. - When drawings or parts were placed on top of a drawn rectangle (with fill pattern) where fixed pins were enabled, you could not select the drawings or parts from lower right to upper left with the mouse. - In some cases, when no part was selected in Screen Data List, double-clicking between cells in the title row caused forced termination. - In some cases, frequent repetition of editing an image font caused forced termination. - While you were editing labels, in some cases, forced termination occurred. - When you executed "Copy to All Labels", only the label font size was not reflected. - In some cases, executing "Redo" hid the Group No. row of the Block tab. 4-8 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (V1.0.2) - Sampling Operation - In some cases, when you allocated a bit device to "Sampling Permit Bit Address" or "Data Clear Bit Address" of "Time Specification", "Time Specification", "Constant Cycle when Bit is ON", "Bit ON", or "Bit Change" in Execution Condition, and if Word Specification was unavailable for the bit device, it did not work. - Sampling Display - In some cases, when "Overwrite old data after finishing the specified no. of times" was disabled and a text was set in Display Settings, editing the text row or later locked up the main unit. - In some cases, when you allocated a bit device to an interlock address, and if Word Specification was unavailable for the bit device, it did not work. - In some cases, when you set the address of Alarm Summary by means of Set Symbol, the summary could not be displayed. - In some cases, when you allocated a bit device to an interlock address, and if Word Specification was unavailable for the bit device, it did not work. =========V1.00.003 ================================================= 4-9 Modified Defects of the Editor (V1.00.003) - When a project of GP-PRO/PB3 used increment symbols, the project data was not properly converted. - When a project of GP-PRO/PB3 using image data was converted, in some cases, it was not converted into proper colors. - In some cases, changing the display color of the Display/CSV tab in Sampling Settings caused forced termination. - In some cases, in the Print Preview of Sampling Settings, the footer was not displayed. - In Sampling Data, the specifications have been changed to check the upper limit no. of settings on the Editor even when SRAM is not used. - The specifications have been changed to issue a warning when you place an editable sampling data display on a window. - Microsoft Word could not open the image data of screens outputted in RTF. - In cross reference, identical D-script addresses were displayed. - The error message issued when you gave a description of a symbol that had already been registered in an extended script was wrong. - The device count of the D-script in Screen Info was wrong. - In some cases, while the Properties screen was active, performing another operation caused forced termination. - Improvement of alarm registration save time - Improvement of image registration save time - Improvement of thumbnail display update speed - Improvement of object selection response speed 4-10 Modified Defects of the Main Unit (V1.0.1) - Sampling Operation - In some cases when you transferred a project data whose settings was beyond its SRAM capacity and then reset the GP, the next transfer became impossible. - Sampling Display - In some cases when Time Specification was selected in Sampling Settings, if you went offline while sampling and moved the clock forward, the date became 00/00/00. - In some cases when BCD was specified in Display Settings, if you scrolled while editing data, the numeric values changed. - In some cases, the data was written to the next row of the one you were editing. - In some cases, immediately after you initialized the backup SRAM, the first sampling data was displayed as ****. - In some cases while high-speed sampling was being performed, every time you switched screens, the calculation total value changed. - In some cases, when you touched a display specifying more groups than the upper limit in the case of not using a backup SRAM, it locked up. - In some cases, when the display data type was HEX and the input was with sign, editing operation caused invalid values. - In some cases while high-speed sampling was being performed, if you had the sampling display show the data, and at the same time executed Clear in succession, it locked up. - In some cases, when you selected "Do not add Time Data" in Sampling Settings, and "With Date and Time Column" in Display Settings, if you edited the Date/Time column, it locked up. - Save to CF-Card - In some cases in Save to CF-Card in System Settings, when you executed Save Sampling Data in CSV, the generated data was insufficient. - In some cases in Save to CF-Card in System Settings, when you executed Save Logging Data in CSV, the display of the sampling display became not updatable. - In some cases in Save to CF-Card in System Settings, when you executed Save Logging Data in CSV, going offline was impossible. - In some cases in Save to CF-Card in System Settings, when you set two or more groups that had greatly different numbers of sampling times, executing Save Line Chart or Save Sampling Data caused the GP to lock up. - In some cases in Save to CF-Card in System Settings, when you set two or more groups, executing Save Line Chart or Save Sampling Data generated a CSV file that had only the header part. - In some cases when high-speed sampling was specified, executing Save to CF-Card repeatedly displaying sampling results caused a system error. - In some cases when high-speed sampling was specified, Auto-Save Groups could not be terminated. - In some cases, executing Save System Settings to CF-Card during Auto-Save Groups outputted both pieces of information into one file. - In some cases, when you terminated Auto-Save by opening the CF-Card hatch, even if you closed the hatch and executed it again, Auto-Save was not available. - Print - In some cases in Real-time Print, the specified number of printing was not properly performed. - In some cases in Real-time Print, when communication with the PLC had not been executed yet, going offline was impossible. - In some cases in Real-time Print, if you executed sampling while printing was being canceled, and then you permitted printing again, as for the data of 2nd block and after, only 1 row was printed. - Write Data - In some cases, when you failed reading sampling data, executing Write Data wrote invalid data. - In some cases, when the data type was BCD, executing Write Calculation Part caused invalid values. - When the setting of the calculation row was Float, executing Write Data caused invalid write results. - In some cases, executing Write Data repeatedly caused a system error. - In some cases in Channel Settings, when some addresses were left unset, the display was improper. - When you used an unestablished symbol address, depending on the timing of startup and transfer, transfer state alternated with online state. - In some cases, when 32-bit setting was selected, a 16-bit device could not read the last bit address (15 bits) of the address range. - When you used an unestablished symbol address, in some cases, the Runtime would not start after transfer. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Q Series CPU Direct - In some cases, when you used a file register, an out-of-range error was displayed although it was within the range. - In some cases, when you performed reading a file register or a step relay, the PLC made an error response or a timeout error occurred. FX Series CPU Direct - Arithmetic operations such as Bit Invert of Bit Switch or Arithmetic Operation of Word Switch did not correctly work. Siemens AG SIMATIC S7 MPI Direct - When you converted a project of GP-Pro/PB3 "Siemens S7-200 via MPI" protocol, I/IW/Q/QW/C devices were converted to "-Undefined-". Schneider Electric Industries MODBUS SIO Master MODBUS TCP Master - When you tried to write 1-word holding register to a PLC not supporting the Preset Single Register command (H06), you could not write correctly. - When you tried to write 1-word coil to a PLC not supporting the Force Single Coil command (H05), you could not write correctly. 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