Scanlab RTC 5 PC Interface Board Installation And Operation Manual page 500

Normal set_wait
List Command
Function sets a numbered wait marker (break point) in the list
Call
set_wait( WaitWord )
Parameter
WaitWord
Comments • Processing of a list will be interrupted at each wait marker and remain halted until
continued via release_wait. This provides a way to implement synchronizing.
• The "laser active" laser control signals will be switched off by set_wait and a home
jump defined via
INTERNAL-BUSY status is set while the home jump is executed). Continuation via
execute_list_pos,
However,
stop_execution
• set_wait will set the PAUSED status and reset the BUSY status (both queriable with
get_status). The opposite occurs with a subsequent
"List Execution Status", page
• If processing has been stopped at a wait marker, the command
returns the number of this marker.
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RTC 4 RTC 5 essentially unchanged functionality, however:
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the RTC
References get_wait_status, release_wait, pause_list,
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10 Commands And Functions
number of the wait marker as an unsigned 32-bit value.
Allowed range: [1 ... (2
home_position
restart_list or an external start will consequently be suppressed.
stop_execution or an external list stop is possible. release_wait,
or an external list stop will remove suppression of the list start.
73).
5 also provides a PAUSED status that will be set with set_wait.
32
–1)]; 0 will be corrected to 1.
or home_position_xyz might be executed (the
release_wait
stop_list
command (also see
get_wait_status
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