Folks, Last week I had sent a personal email to one of you but while I was in Milford my email got hosed so I don't know who it was.
Anyway, it was about undocumented macro commands ... First an explanation about why the heck they'd be undocumented in the first place. After SmartCAM builds a series of thousands of tests would be executed using macros to drive them. These tests would run in the middle of the night and, hopefully, when I would arrive at work the next morning they would be complete and I could assess the builds health before the development staff would arrive (as some of you know, I'm an early bird). First problem ... an OK/Cancel dialog appears and waits all night for me to push a button. Thus ... AUTO_ANSWER[] was created. It was found that this could be useful to users in general, so we documented it. Next was when it wasn't an error that AUTO_ANSWER[] could fix, like fatal errors that still required a button push (every one taking notes?), so we came up with AUTO_ABORT[ABORT="integer"]. 0=off, 1=on. This simply kills the session if something goes very haywire. The other ones would probably not be very useful for you all, but I've seen what some of you guys can do with this stuff! The following is used to reset paths that may have been set in the JOF or the INI file(s). FPATH_SET[IN="string", FP="path_string"] Where "string" can be "def", "jof", "smf" or "import". def is a path for the current PM4, SH3 or SH2 files jof is a path for the current JOF or JSF files smf is a path for the the current code generator files and import is the path for any current INTERNAL import files (not CamConnections). path_string is the drive:\path - no slash at the end Ummm. There's GRAPHICS_ON[] and GRAPHICS_OFF[], I think this was mentioned last week. There's also one called INTPT[] and I have no idea what this is for. I pretty sure that's all of them. Hope it helps! -- John Gent Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Americas Support Center - Eugene The secret of life is nothing at all. - Gretchen Peters ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
