About The Program And Motion Pointers - ABB OmniCore Operating Manual

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6.3.6 About the Program and Motion Pointers

6.3.6 About the Program and Motion Pointers
The Program Pointer
The Program Pointer (PP) indicates the instruction with which the program will
start when you press the Start, Forward, or Backward buttons on the FlexPendant.
Program execution continues from the instruction where the Program Pointer is
placed. However, if the cursor is moved to another instruction when the program
is stopped, the Program Pointer can be moved to the position of the cursor (or the
cursor can be moved to the Program Pointer), and execution can be restarted from
that position.
The Program Pointer is shown as an arrow to the left of a line in program code in
Code Editor of Code and in Advanced View of Operate.
The Motion Pointer
The Motion Pointer (MP) indicates the instruction that the robot is currently
executing. This is normally one or more instructions after the Program Pointer, as
the system executes and calculates the robot path faster than the robot moves.
The Motion Pointer is shown as a small robot to the left of the program code in
Code Editor of Code and in Advanced View of Operate.
The cursor
The cursor can indicate a complete instruction or any of the arguments.
The cursor is shown as blue highlighting of the program code in Code Editor of
Code.
Code Editor
If you toggle between the Code Editor and another view and back again, the Code
Editor will show the same part of the code as long as the program pointer has not
been moved. If the program pointer is moved, the Code Editor shows the code at
the position of the program pointer.
The same behavior applies to Advanced View in Operate.
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