PC SDK 5.14.02 Release

Niklas Skoglund

PC SDK 5.14.02 Release

Release Notes

Improvements and corrected issues

Manage
mastership for all controller resources

It is now possible to
request and release mastership over all resources of the controller at the same
time.

Example:

[CODE]
Controller controller;
using(Mastership.Request(controller))
{
// add your code here
}
[/CODE]

By calling controller.IsMaster you can check if you have
mastership over all the resources.

Event
when Task.Enabled is changed

The new event Controller.EnabledChanged
is fired when the task selection state is changed.

Task.Enabled
can be set ?_" under the following circumstances

When using PC SDK from a
RobotStudio Add-In, connected to a Virtual Controller, that is in Manual Mode, it
is possible to set the task enabled property. Under all other conditions, setting the
property will throw an exception. 

Task.Enabled
can be set ?_" under the following conditions

When using PC SDK from a
RobotStudio Add-In, connected to a Virtual Controller, that is in Manual Mode, it
is possible to set the task enabled property. Under all other conditions, setting the
property will throw an exception. 

Instance.SetAttribute
works for string data type attributes

It is now possible to set
the value of attributes with string data type.

Type.GetObject
renamed to Type.GetInstance

The methods Type.GetObjects() and Type.GetObject(string
name) has been renamed Type.GetInstances() and Type.GetInstance(string
name) for usability reasons. The old
methods can still be used but are marked as obsolete.

Fill
ArrayData from string

It is now possible to fill
arrays from strings. If the string is not of the correct format, an exception of type RapidDataFormatException
is thrown.

Example:

ArrayData data = ...

data.FillFromString2(?_o....?__);

Note:

The fill from string
implementations of all RAPID data type classes like ?_oBool?__, ?_oRobTarget?__, ?_oNum?__, etc,
is documented to through a RapidDataFormatException if the string is not of the
correct format. However the behaviour was different than the documentation and various
.NET exceptions like NullReferenceException, as the general PC SDK GenericControllerException
was thrown instead. When fill from string was
implemented for array types, it was desired to have the same  error handling as for
the atomic types, mentioned above. Throwing RapidDataFormatException instead of GenericControllerException, would break compatibility.
In order to provide a consistent set of fill from string implementations the
current FillFromString
method was made obsolete in favour for FillFromString2 which
implements the correct functionality and error handling. 

Class
UserDefined initialized to a valid default value

When creating an instance
of the UserDefined
class, its Components property now returns an array of sub
components, representing the default value for the record type represented by the
instance. In previous versions null
was returned for a newly created UserDefined instance.

AuthorizationException
threwn when not logged in

When calling methods that
requires a logged on user, without a previous logon, an AuthorizationException exception
is thrown, with a message text explaining that a log on is required.

Niklas Skoglund2011-10-21 17:45:07