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how to have a LIST in MACRO PAUSE

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:27:49 GMT

Hello,

I needed to give some information to the user. As i want to ask what time of part he will be machining for later apply a correct macro.

I was wondering how to use a LIST and use it in a Macro Pause

Something like this:

STRING LIST $tipos_eletrodos = {}

FILE OPEN 'C:\dcam\tipos_eletrodos.txt' FOR READ AS tipos_eletrodos
	FILE READ $tipos_eletrodos FROM tipos_eletrodos
FILE CLOSE tipos_eletrodos

MACRO PAUSE $tipos_eletrodos

The problem is that i get a error message saying: "#ERROR: Parameter cannot be represented by a string"

Any ideias on how to solve this ?

Thank you,

José Alves

Re: how to have a LIST in MACRO PAUSE

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:45:03 GMT

Try this:

STRING tiposEl = ""
STRING LIST $tipos_eletrodos = {}

FILE OPEN 'C:\dcam\tipos_eletrodos.txt' FOR READ AS tipos_eletrodos
	FILE READ $tipos_eletrodos FROM tipos_eletrodos
FILE CLOSE tipos_eletrodos

FOREACH listElement IN tipos_eletrodos {
	$tiposEl = $tiposEl + CRLF + $listElement
}

MACRO PAUSE $tiposEl

Mateusz

Re: how to have a LIST in MACRO PAUSE

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 12:04:48 GMT

Thank You!!!

that works perfectly