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1.8 Generating user menus
1.8.1 Creating processing cycle forms
The cycle support function allows the automatic creation and decompilation of a cycle call
through the form dialog.
To manage this functionality, the following tags are available:
● NC_INSTRUCTION
● CREATE_CYCLE
To mark a cycle form, in the FORM tag, the attribute type should be specified with the value
cycle. This marking allows the NC_INSTRUCTION to be processed.
Example
<FORM name = "cycle100_form" type= "CYCLE">
...
...
</FORM>
The NC_INSTRUCTION tag contains the cycle call to be generated. All cycle parameters
should be reserved using space retainers.
Example
<FORM name = "cycle100_form" type= "CYCLE">
<NC_INSTRUCTION refvar= "cyc_string" >Cycle100 ($p1, $p2, $p3)</
NC_INSTRUCTION>
...
...
...
</FORM
The CREATE_CYCLE tag prepares the values saved in the space retainer variables and
generates the NC instruction.
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