Indexing RobotStudio Paths

Robot Controller
1

I have used RobotStudio to develop my paths and now would like to write
a simple PROC to index through those paths.

RobotStudio created, “Path1”, “Path2”, “Path3”, etc. I have 290 paths. And
rather than write a PROC with 290 lines of code, I would like to do
something like:

FOR X FROM 1 to 290 DO
PATH{x}
ENDFOR

But how do you identify a PROC as a VAR? Or can you? This would make
my code much shorter. And easier to read. I have several similar
scenarios like this in my program.

2

Hi,

Use the rapid instruction CallByVar.

Here is the description from the reference manual:

CallByVar - Call a procedure by a variable

CallByVar (Call By Variable) can be used to call procedures with specific names, e.g.

proc_name1, proc_name2, proc_name3 … proc_namex via a variable.

Example

reg1 := 2;

CallByVar “proc”, reg1;

The procedure proc2 is called.

3

Hello!

I dont know if this is the best or shortest syntax to handle it but you can do something like this!

MODULE Index
LOCAL VAR num nPath;

PROC main()
nPath:=0;
FOR i FROM 1 TO 290 DO
incr nPath;
%“Path”+NumToStr(nPath,0)%;
ENDFOR
ENDPROC
ENDMODULE

MODULE Paths
PROC Path1()
! Your instructions
ENDPROC

PROC Path2()
! Your instructions
ENDPROC

PROC Path3()
! Your instructions
ENDPROC

! TO Path 290
ENDMODULE

4

:wink: Thanks! Along those same lines I have set up an array of
“alt_stop{290}” which is used to change “stop1”, “stop2”, “stop3”, etc. In
using the “Offs” function I would like to use the same index format, like:

For x FROM 1 to 290 DO
alt_stop{x}:= Offs(stop{x}, 0, 10, 10);
ENDFOR

However, “stop” is a constant and therefore not indexable. There are 290
"stop"s. RobotStudio generated “stop” so there is not much I can do with
them.