upload from netlinx processor
chris247
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what are the steps to upload from a processor to store the files locally. I am working with a programmer to get the design of the touchpanels done, but i am having issues on one device. I would like to download the sample program for the device and test it, but i do not have a copy of the program that is in there now.
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For a copy of the program source to be stored on the master, it has to be enabled in the Settings | Preference section of Studio - turn on the check mark for "Build with Source" in compiler options. To retrieve the source, use the "receive" function of Studio, making sure your default connection is the master you want to retrieve it from. Once you have named the source and retrieved it, you need to use the File Extraction (from SRC) option in the Tools menu to unpack what you just retrieved.
If the original was not compiled with the source when it was loaded on the master, you are out of luck. There is no way to get the compiled program file, and if there was, you couldn't reverse engineer it to get the source (not that I think it would be helpful if you could).
Some programmers don't load the source as a method of insuring no one steals their code or their customers. I find that risky - if I really felt I had to protect it, I would rather password protect it so I know I have the current copy on the master in case my copy gets destroyed (not very likely, I have an onsite and an offsite backup of everything, and I backup at the beginning and the end of every day .. but you can't be too careful protecting critical data, as far as I am concerned). Besides, once in a great while, I find I have to go to a job with a strange computer, or use someone else's, and if there is a current local copy, I know I'm not in trouble in case I forgot to get all the right files on that computer.
But I don't password protect it either. My company pretty much sells the program itself to the customer, not a use license. So it's theirs, and they have a copy on the master. If we annoy them so much that they feel like they want to replace us, I figure we have already failed, and I'm not going to force the guy who won the account to start from scratch.