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Get the name of the current tool

scottMHA
scottMHA ✭
edited December 2018 in RAPID Programming
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.
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  • soup
    soup ✭✭✭
    CTool
  • scottMHA
    scottMHA ✭
    That doesn't return the name? it just returns the frame, load and robheld
  • soup
    soup ✭✭✭
    Ah, sorry, reading too quickly. How about GetSysData?
  • scottMHA
    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
    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

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