Get the name of the current tool

scottMHA

Is there a way to get the name of the current tool that active in the jogging window so it can be displayed in a message box? I just want to extract the tooldata name that's circled below.

soup

CTool

scottMHA

That doesn't return the name? it just returns the frame, load and robheld

soup

Ah, sorry, reading too quickly. How about GetSysData?

scottMHA

my understanding of that function is that you can retrieve the values of a data type from the object name?

I want to just get the name of the current tool being used whilst jogging... must be a way as ABB display it when running the tool identify routine in the basefun tasks

soup

Using Example 1 & 2 from the manual -- it outputs the current tool as a string value:

MODULE mMain
   
    PERS tooldata curtoolvalue;
    VAR string curtoolname;
   
    PROC main()
        GetSysData curtoolvalue \ObjectName := curtoolname;
        TPWrite curtoolname;
    ENDPROC
   
ENDMODULE