Text Principle - Modification And Extension - Siemens SINUMERIK 840D Operator's Manual

Development Kit (EU)
3 First Steps in Configuring
3.3 Text principle – Modification and extension
Languages – multi-
lingual text
Master language
Binary text files
EU/3-24
The OP 030 can be equipped with two on-line languages.
These languages are called the foreground language and
background language.
The foreground language files have the extension *.sp1 and the
background language files have the extension *.sp2.
The foreground and background language of the OP 030 system can be
substituted with other texts or languages without recompiling the
configuration or the base system. However, the number of texts and
their order during compilation of the texts may not be changed. This
restriction does not apply to alarm texts - all text files which begin with
an "a" (alm, aln, ala, alp, alc, alz).
The various texts in the binary text files must be compatible. Therefore
there is always one master language for the overall text handling. This
master language defines the number and order of the texts. In the OP
030 Development Kit English (\proj\text\*\g) is set as the master
language. Text source file
Configuration text source files are stored at the path \proj\text\pj\d,g,...
(depending on the language).
Alarm text source files are stored in \proj\text\pj\d,g, ... and
\proj\text\al\d,g, ... - this is where machine-specific alarms are stored
(PLC alarms, cycle alarms and compile cycle alarms).
Text source files always have the extension *.txt.
The binary text files are generated with the aid of the text makefiles
(stored at the makefile paths) and a text converter. They are stored
alongside the text source files. The binary text files always have the
extension *.sp1 for texts used in the foreground language and *.sp2 for
texts used in the background language.
When the OP 030 is loaded, the \bin directory is searched for the binary
text files.
The default settings of the configuration system are such that the text
makefiles automatically copy the binary text files for the English
foreground language (\proj\text\*\g\*.sp1) and the binary text files for
the German background language (\proj\text\*\d\*.sp2) to the \bin
directory. If you prefer a different configuration, you should copy the
appropriate files to the \bin directory. However, the *.sp1 files always
indicate the foreground language.
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