Protocol Macro - INT to ASCII

[ParaffinPower 13]

Hi Guys, Wonder if someone can help me out here. I'm deep in a project with enough SCU21's to sink a ship. One of the SCU's is talking to a inkjet printer, and I need to send it a DINT to print. If my DINT is 1234, then I want to transmit ASCII 1, 2, 3, 4. However, I'm using message variable "Variable ASCII" (CX-Protocol terminology) which looks like this $(R(10),8) What this does though is interpret my number as BCD (I think), then convert this to ASCII i.e. not what I'm after. As I see it, my option is to manually convert 1234 to ASCII 1, 2, 3, 4 then send this as a "Variable" (CX-Protocol terminology again). This would prompt me to write a conversion FB which must be useful to others? Or is there some wonder instruction that does what I need? From memory, I can convert DINT to FLOAT, then FLOAT to STRING? And transmit this directly. As I mentioned, I've got SCU's coming out of my ears, so this probably won't be my last question. Thanks, Pp

[ParaffinPower 13]

Answered my own question. New type of conversion added in CXP V7.0 within FB's. Talk about good timing! Pp