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Page 3: Table Of Contents
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Page 4: About This Manual
About this Manual Documents Complete documentation is available to help you get the most Supplied from COMet. By means of an example, the Quick Guided Tour aims to familiarize you quickly with the software, giving you the basic keys for getting started. This documentation has been designed as a compliment to the online help. -
Page 5: Quick Guided Tour
Quick Guided Tour Introduction The guided tour provides a quick introduction to get you off to a good start with the basic functions of COMet. By means of a practical example, you will learn how to create a new hardware environment and configure source devices using different communication protocols. -
Page 6: Presentation Of The Zoo Shipping Company
Page 2 -- 4 Quick Start Guide Presentation of the Zoo Shipping Company The ZOO Shipping Company’s dispatch service has developed a package shipping system using COMet. Each package must be accompanied by a delivery slip. Outgoing packages are routinely weighed and a light beam reads the bar codes on each package. -
Page 7: Setting Up The Environment
Quick Guided Tour Page 2 -- 5 Setting Up the This sequence describes the shipping department’s hardware Environment configuration and gives the procedure for creating the work environment. " " " " Hardware Devices A PC A printer connected to the PC’s COM 1 port A bar code reader connected to the PC’s COM 2 port A weighing machine connected to the PC’s COM 3 port The PC, which originally had only two serial ports, has been... - Page 8 Page 2 -- 6 Quick Start Guide Repeat this procedure for Port 3 and select the TEC-SL47 protocol used by the weighing machine. The table now looks like the example shown below : Figure 4 Selecting Protocols " " " " Selecting the Target Document Click on or press Select the Shipping label from the COMet Samples folder.
- Page 9 Quick Guided Tour Page 2 -- 7 Selecting Settings for the Bar code Reader : Go to port 2. Click on or press The Source device settings dialog box appears : Complete the boxes indicated, then click on Figure 5 Configuring the Bar code Reader Selecting Settings for the Weighing Machine : Go to port 3 Click on...
- Page 10 Page 2 -- 8 Quick Start Guide Selecting Keyboard Settings Go to the row in the table corresponding to the keyboard. Click on or press The Source device settings dialog box appears. Since the keyboard is a special device, the dialog box contains only one box for selecting the target field.
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Page 11: Data Acquisition
Quick Guided Tour Page 2 -- 9 " " " " Saving the Environment Now you have created your environment, you will save it so that it can be used later. Click on or press The Save as dialog box appears : Enter as the environment name, then click on SHIPPING.CMT... - Page 12 Page 2 -- 10 Quick Start Guide Values are displayed one by one in the table. Figure 10 Displaying Values during Transfer To show that the transfer process is taking place, the but- ton becomes Obtaining a Preview To better monitor the process, request a label preview by click on or by pressing Figure 11 Label Preview...
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Page 13: Creating A New Protocol
Quick Guided Tour Page 2 -- 11 Creating a New Protocol It is entirely possible that the protocol used by your device is unavailable in COMet. If so, you must define it using the technical information sheet that came with your device. Let us suppose that the ZOO Shipping Company has just purchased a new bar code reader, the protocol of which is not recognized by COMet. -
Page 14: Selecting Settings For The Bar Code Reader
Page 2 -- 12 Quick Start Guide Selecting Set- tings for the Bar code Rea- Click on or press The protocol Selection dialog box appears. Click on New. Click on or press The Source device settings dialog box appears. Using the manufacturer’s information, complete the diffe- rents boxes as shown below : Figure 12 Configuring a source device Once the dialog box has been completed, click on Settings... - Page 15 Quick Guided Tour Page 2 -- 13 " " " " Initialization Step To retrieve this check character, and in accordance with the device specifications, you must send the command ” 0901 ”, or ^I^A (see note below). We will then delete this data check character as in our case, the sole purpose of initialization is to make sure the reader is wor- king correctly.
- Page 16 Page 2 -- 14 Quick Start Guide " " " " Wait Stage Figure 13 Wait Stage Check the When receiving a message sent by the device box, since the data is transmitted as soon as the reader’s trigger is activated. "...
- Page 17 Quick Guided Tour Page 2 -- 15 Enter ” ^A*^B ”. ^A : message start character, * : joker replacing a given number of characters, ^B : message stop character. " " " " Data Extraction In this step, we will define the structure and nature of the message, and specify which part of the message we want to retrieve.
- Page 18 Page 2 -- 16 Quick Start Guide " " " " Saving the New Protocol Now that the protocol is configured, you need to save it. Click on Save as. The Saving the protocol dialog box appears. : Figure 16 Saving the Protocol The box features three text entry boxes allowing you to input precise reference information for any new protocol.
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