• What the scanner shows
• Starting the scanner
• Tabs and columns
• Options
• Filter, opening a declaration, export

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▲ What the scanner shows

The KRL Variable Scanner is the object browser of a KUKA robot: it reads all *.dat files of the robot archive (optionally also the *.src files) and lists every declaration in a tree - file » declaration. You see at a glance where a variable, signal, structure or subprogram is declared, with its type, value and line, and which global names are declared more than once with different definitions.

▲ Starting the scanner

Set a KRC or VKRC robot as the active project (project tree » Set active robot) and choose KRC » KRL Variable Scanner (for VKRC: VKRC » KRL Variable Scanner). The scanner takes $config.dat of the active robot and scans the whole archive (three folders above KRC\R1\System).

Another archive can be scanned without opening it as a project: choose another $config.dat with the button in the path field, or drag a $config.dat or a ZIP archive of the robot onto the window, then Rescan. Backup copies of the editor (~name.src, ~name.dat) are skipped.

▲ Tabs and columns

Tab	Contents	Columns
Primary	variables (DECL, also arrays)	Name, Type, Value, GLOBAL, CONST
Signal	SIGNAL declarations	Name, From, To (e.g. $IN[1] TO $IN[8])
Channel	CHANNEL declarations	Name, Interface, Var
Struc	STRUC types	Name, Members
Enum	ENUM types	Name, Enumerators
Routine	subprograms and functions (DEF, DEFFCT) from *.src	Name, Type, Params, Kind

All tabs also have the columns:

• GLOBAL - declared with GLOBAL; everything in $config.dat is global automatically.
• Conflicts - the same name is declared global in several places with different definitions (type or value). In KRL all global names share one name space, so such a declaration is a real collision.
• Description - the long text of the variable or signal (signal descriptions of the robot), when loaded.
• Line - line of the declaration in the file.

A file whose declarations cannot be read is shown in red with the syntax error and its position; the number after a file name is the number of declarations found in it.

▲ Options

• Scan for global variables only - only $config.dat and declarations with GLOBAL in public *.dat files.
• Scan for all variables - all declarations of all *.dat files.
• Scan *.dat files / Scan *.src files - which files are read. With *.src the Routine tab is filled and local declarations inside the routines are listed as well; without it the Routine tab stays empty.

After changing an option click Rescan.

▲ Filter, opening a declaration, export

• Filter text under the tables filters all tabs at the same time.
• A double click on a file opens it in the editor, a double click on a declaration opens the file at the line of the declaration.
• The context menu of the tree has Expand all and Collapse all.
• Export » Export to CSV... / Export to XLSX... writes all tabs into one file with the category, all columns and the file of every declaration.