RAB 5.07 released

Developer Tools
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RAB 5.07 was released beginnin of March.

FP SDK includes many new features:

  1. support for Visual Studio 2005,
  2. Controller Backup & Restore
  3. Mastership
  4. FileSystemDomain StorageDevice
  5. SignalCollection & SignalType & IOFilterType
  6. MechanicalUnit Domain & Jogging
  7. RapidDomain.Module.Name set + get
  8. RapidDomain.Module Create and Delete RapidData
  9. RapidDomain ProgramPointer
  10. RapidDomain Rapid Start and stop program
  11. ModPos
  12. Possibility to launch Standard Views as RapidEditor, Jogging, RapidData, BackUpRestore, LogOff
  13. Possibility to launch other assemblies’
    TpsIcon, library of Flexpendant default icons.
  14. new class for Arrays, size and dimension

PC SDK includes some new features:

  1. Backup / Restore
  • Basic backup and restore functions
  • BackupManager, Advanced backup / restore functions1. Default controller, Simple controller creation through default constructor configured in app.config
  1. Additional Controller constructors,Simplified object creation
  2. GetGrantDefinitions, Gets the definitions and descriptions of grants from the controller
  3. Virtual Controller, Launches and controls virtual controllers
  4. Find Controller, NetworkScanner can find a specific controller by system id
  5. SystemStartedEvent, Waits for a specific system to starts
  6. IOSystem.GetSignals, Searches for digital signals in the io system
  7. Licensing, Licensing is enabled during build and verified during runtime
  8. MotionSystem, Access to mechanical units and external axis
  9. ArrayData, Arrays can now be access either in snapshot mode or a dynamic mode to enable large arrays
  10. DataType.Empty Static empty instances available on most Rapid data types.
  11. Rapid Cycle, ExecutionStatus and RemainingCycles
  12. RapidDataResolve, External hook used to resolve RapidData types not implemented by PC SDK.