"Send Now" and "Send Command"
You can send text commands to the connected serial device by using the Send Now and Send Command commands. The Send Command writes to the opened serial port any text you put in the "TagName" field. You can send a special end character by using the ^ sign. The Send Now command automates several logging steps for you where the Send Command just sends the selected text.
Special End Characters
Carriage Return = ^M
Line Feed = ^J
Form Feed = ^L
Hard Tab = ^T
Vertial Tab = ^K
Typical commands with special end characters: 1^M
(This would send 1 with a carriage return).
Send Command
You can send text commands by entering them in the terminal window and pressing the enter key. You can also send text commands by using the evButton Send Command command. The Send Command will try to write the TagName text to your device. No other action is taken.
Property settings for evButton with the ShowForm set to Send Command.
Send Now Command
The Send Now command does the following:
1. Opens a file to save the data received.
a. You can append to this file by checking the TermForm (communications) Edit menu Append File.
If this is checked the data will be appended to this file.
If Append File is not checked it will overwrite any existing file that exists.
2. Clear the terminal window.
3. Sends the command.
4. Saves the data received.
note: You should send "END" or a FF (#12) at the end of your data file, so the program will know to start parsing the data.
5. Loads the data into the file form.
6. Parses the data for screen display.
Property settings for evButton with the ShowForm set to Send Now.
Send Now Save File Dialog
Send Now command activates the Save Download File Dialog before sending the command.