Firmware dependencies for the "DB Access Library"

FAQ #101372

 

What are the functions of the "DB Access Library"?
The System Function (SF library) "DB Access Library" allows e.g. copying texts into text or searching an expression within a text. The library consists of two parts, where the second part (including e.g. the SearchText function which allows sarching an expressino within a text) is only supported by Saia PCD® COSinus Systems (PCD2.M5, PCD3).
A detailed description of the functions can be found in the context menu of the "Function selector" from the IL Editor from PG5 2.0:


Firmware dependencies
The first part of the new "DB Access Library" consists of the following functions and is supported by the following PCD systems (systems not listed in the table do not support these features):

Functions

• CopyTextBytes
• CopyBytes
• CopyDBBytesToR
• CopyRToDBBytes
• GetDBItem
• InitDBBytes
• InitDBItems

PCD System	Firmware version
PCD1.M1x5	0F0
PCD2.M150	0F0
PCD2.M170	0F0
PCD2.M480	1.08.21
PCD2.M5xx0	1.08.19
PCD3.Mxxx0	1.08.23
PCS1.Cxxx	0F0

Functions
The following functions are only supported on Saia PCD® COSinus Systems but not on systems like the PCD2.M150, M170 etc.

• SearchText
• ReadANumberFromText
• CopyNBytesFromTextToText
• CopyAValueFromRKToText
• CopyBytes

PCD System	Saia PCD® COSinus firmware version
PCD2.M5xx0	1.10.16
PCD3.Mxxx0	1.10.16

Remark
The function "CopyTextBytes" (copy one text into another, and thereby replacing $D, $H, $Rnnnn with date, time, register contents etc.) has already been supported by firmware versions before the ones listed in the first table; for more information please refer to FAQ 100886.