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l Fixed:Thenumberenteredintheeditfielddefineshowmanylabelswillbeprinted.
l Unlimited:Themaximumquantityoflabelssupportedbythecurrentprinterwillbe
printed.Thisoptionsisgenerallyusedwithdatabasefiles,whereunlimitedwouldbe
usedas:printthewholedatabase.
Note:
Becarefulanddonotcreateaninfiniteloop,whenlabelprintingwouldnotend.
l Variable quantity:Somevariableonthelabelwillsetthequantityoflabelstobe
printed.Inmostcasesthiswillbesomefieldfromthedatabase.Theformdoesnotknow
howmanylabelswillbeprinted.Whenthedataisprocessedonthelabel,thevariable
quantitygetsitsvalue.
l From variable:Thevalueoftheselectedvariabledefinesthequantityoflabelsthatwill
beprinted.
Advanced Options:Clickthisbuttontosetadvancedoptionsforthequantityoflabels.
Condition:Thisisascriptingbooleanexpression.Onlytworesultsarepossible(TrueandFalse).
Usethisoptiontoenablecurrentactiononlywhensometermismet.Theactionwillbestartedonly
ifconditionreturnsTrueastheresultoftheexpression(thissettingisonlyavailableintheadvanced
ActionEditormode).
Read Data from Serial Port
Definehowthedatawillbereadfromtheserialport.
Thedatareceivedontheserialportisstoredinthegeneratedvariable.Youcanusethevalueofthe
variabledirectlyonthelabeloruseitinsomeotheractionintheform(likeVisualBasicscriptif
additionaldata-manipulationisrequired).
Serial Port Settings:Definethepropertiesoftheserialportwhereyouhaveattachedtheserial
device.Theparametersinthisdialogboxhavetomatchthesettingsonthedevice.Refertothedoc-
umentationofyourserialcommunicationdevicesoyouwillbeabletospecifythecorrectcom-
municationparameters.Ifthesettingsonthedeviceandinthesoftwaredonotmatch,
communicationwillnotbepossible.
Initialization Data:Initializationdataissetofcharactersthatneedtobesenttotheserialdevicein
ordertoactivateitandmakeitreadytosenddatatothePCcomputer.Typeinthesetofcharacters
thatmustbesenttothedevice.Clickonthesmallarrowbuttonontherighttodisplaylistofallavail-
ablespecialcharacters.
Send initialization data:Ticktheoptiontoenableinitializationdata.Thisisoptionalfeature.
Wait before starting to read data:Youcandefinethetime-outinmillisecondsafterwhich
thereceivingdatawillbegin.Thisisoptionalfeature.
Filter:Youcanfilterthedatayoureceivefromtheserialportandcutonlytheimportantcharacters.
Youcanlimitwhatdatayouwillreceive.Thisisoptionalfeature.
Use start and stop string:Definethetwostringsthatwillenclosethedatayouneedto
extract.Forexample,ifstartstringis###andstopstringis$$$,theextracteddatafromthe
rawdataq###12345$$$1 is12345.
Use start and end position:Definethestartandstoppositionofcharactersyouwantto
extract.Forexample,ifstartpositionis10andstoppositionis14,theextracteddatafromthe
rawdataq###12345$$$1 is12345.
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