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Job Editor
Group 8
Release 2.02
JET3 Series
8.7.5.2.3 Extern Text: variable length
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Printout/Deleting the input buffer
There can be up to 32
<Extern Text>
objects within a print job. For each object you can
define the number of wildcards and the offset separately. But nevertheless all
<Extern
Text>
objects within a print job will process the same received character string. It is just
a matter of the <
Start symbol>,
<End symbol>,
the
<Wildcards>
and the
<Offset>
settings which part of the received character string is used by the
<Extern Text:
variable length>
object.
The received serial data are stored in an input buffer. The size of this buffer is defined
by the
<Extern Text: variable length>
object that have the largest sum from wildcards
and offset.
There are 2 basic rules for using more than one
<Extern Text: variable length>
object in a print job:
1. Basically it is possible to use different <
Start symbols>
and
<End symbols>
for
each
<Extern Text: variable length>
object created. However this wouldn’t be
advisable because only <
Start symbol>
and
<End symbol>
of the
last created
<Extern Text: variable length>
object will be used. If the object is deleted, the
<
Start symbol>
and
<End symbol>of the
object created before the delete
object will be used and so on. Therefore it is
highly recommended
using the
same
<Start symbol>
and
<End symbol>
for all
<Extern Text: variable
length>
objects within the same print job.
2. Using within the same print job several
<Extern Text: variable length>
objects
which have all the same <
Start symbol>
and
<End symbol>
offers the
possibility of controlling the content to be used of a character string by wildcards
and offset for each object separately.
Example print-out:
The example is a print job with three
<Extern Text: variable length>
objects. Each
object has different settings for wildcards and offset. The <
Start symbol>
and
<End
symbol>
shall be the same for all three objects. The character string
xxxGabc123456Sxxx
shall be transmitted.
The settings for each
<Extern Text: variable length>
object looks as follows:
Object 1:
Wildcards:
XXXXXXX
7 wildcards
Offset:
2
2 offset
Sum of wildcards and offset:
9
Start symbol:
G
End symbol:
S
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