Hi,

I’ve run into a really annoying problem with the General Robot programming language.

If I addeven a simple WHILE loopto a robot program —while the simulation is STOPPED— Visual Components immediately throws:

Error: While loop goes through over 1000 times

And in some cases itcrashes the entire software.
After this happens, I can’t even open or edit the robot program anymore because the same error pops up every time I click the program. The layout basically becomes unusable.

This happens even if:

• The simulation is not running

• The program is not started

• The WHILE loop is empty or unfinished

It looks like VC starts executing/validating the robot program automatically the moment I add the WHILE loop, and if the condition is true, it instantly loops 1000+ times and kills itself.

My question:
Does anyone know if there is a fix or workaround for this?
Or is there a way todisable automatic execution / validationwhile editing a robot program?

Right now it’s impossible to build a proper sensor loop because the program crashes before I can even finish writing it.

Any tips or settings I’ve missed would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hy,
This sounds weird, I didn’t succeed in reproducing the problem (in VC 4.10 OLP), if so, can you provide your simulation environment?

Hello,

did you solve this? I´ve got OLP 4.9 version which is the same as is used in Academy videos. I´ve got similar kind of situation. When ever I try to put more than one while loops the error appears:While loop goes over 1000 times.I have tried to restrict the loops with variables but always when I put the second loop to the program, the error appears.

Any advices??

Little bit more info. The error appears when I put the second while loop inside the first one. And I also tried to put a third one inside the second one and that shuts down the VC software.

Just gave up and coded the movements with python API

Could you provide an example simulation file where this happens?

I run this error when I was doing the Palletizing robot programming in Academy videos. Time in video is 12:50 when he creates three while loops. And also one is made before and the hole main program is inside this. In this attached file I made the second while loop and instantly the error appears. And if I now make one more and move it inside the previous one, the program crashes.

This also appears if I just add Generic Articulated Robot in blank project and then add three While-loops to its program

Palletizing robot programming.vcmx(400.5 KB)

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Thanks for the additional details. This seems to be an issue with the OLP product, as the problem does not occur in the non-OLP version.

I will report the issue to the developers, and hopefully we get it fixed in future versions.