Re: [foxboro] foxboro Digest V8 #14
- From: "Grace, Kathy" <kathy.grace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:11:44 -0500
The .apc file is both an input and output file for the FoxPanels
configurator. The AAtab, AApan, and horn.cfg file are output files only
(although they can be imported). When you open the configuration it is
the .apc file that gets opened.
(Aside: This also explains why if you edit your AApan or AAtab files
with a text editor, they reopened the configuration you do not see the
hand edits, and they hand edits are lost when you save).
The .apc file is also used by FoxPanels Run-Time (a.k.a. SoftPanels)
which produces screen displays of panels. It is not used no needed when
you are just using annunciator keyboards. As a matter or fact I have
seen it cause problems. I would suggest saving your configuration (.apc,
AAtab, AApan, and horn.cfg files) to a subdirectory and deleting the
.apc file from \usr\fox\alarms.
If this does not work then please answer the following (you may have
answered some of these earlier but I didn't see them):
1. What I/A release are you at?
2. Are you using Windows or Solaris workstations?
3. How many annunciator keyboards do you have configured?
4. How many annunciator assignments are made in the AAtab file?
5. Do you have the correct number of possible annunciator assignments
configured (init.usr for pre-8.0; ADMC Workstation Property Scheme,
Other tab for 8.0+). The default is 2000 assignments, but you can
configure this up to 10,000 assignments.
Kathy
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Subject: Re: [foxboro] foxboro Digest V8 #14
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In a message dated 1/15/2008 12:13:19 Central Standard Time, =
foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
The easiest way of detecting duplicate Compound:Block entries in the
file is the following:
Thanks to everybody who has responded to my problem. There is still a =
problem, and here is what I have done:
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I am very familiar with the loadalmpnl and prtalmpnl commands and use
them =
all the time. They make the panel buttons work and produce the exact
file =
contents I would expect. I am not having trouble with the AApan file
and =
key-pushing functions. My problem is: I cannot get the associated
AAtab file to =
be recognized (can't get alarms to light ANY LED's).
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Before this last round of help, I had already checked for duplicates in
the =
...AAtab file using the Excel route (and thanks everyone for the other =
dup-checking utilities which I will keep in my bag of Foxboro Tricks),
and I =
actually started from scratch with FoxPanels configurator and set up a
simple =
panel. Sure enough, the AApan file created made the key-pushes work,
but I could =
not get any LED's to light. I verified that the ...AA... files I had =
previously created had both the same name and same format as those
created by =
FoxPanels, thus eliminating that path. The only difference was that
FoxPanels, of =
course, created the <LBUG>.apc file, whereas I had never seen that file
in =
/usr/fox/alarms before. I thought, "aha, here is the problem, even
though =
dozens of other workstations have been working successfully without it
for =
years". Despite all this, the new ...AAtab file apparently isn't
getting =
recognized, as the new annunciator setup would not report any alarms to
the LED's. =
Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to make sure everyone understood
the =
situation. That given, is there any wisdom to be had?
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