CheckMode

There is a special assistance for the developing phase. Some run-time checks are done when KS_… functions are being called. The following checks are carried out:

Checks for valid handles:

• Callback handle
• Event handle
• Internal keyboard handle
• Filter handle
• Interrupt handle
• Serial port handle
• Internal device handle
• USB device handle
• Real-time timer handle
• Task handle
• Semaphore handle
• Internal driver object handle
• Network adapter handle
• Socket handle
• MultiFunction board handle
• CAN port handle
• CANopen master handle
• CANopen slave handle
• CANopen dataset handle
• EtherCAT master handle
• EtherCAT slave handle
• EtherCAT dataset handle
• EtherCAT reflection handle
• Profibus card handle
• Profibus master handle
• Profibus slave handle
• Profibus dataset handle
• PLC variable handle

Other checks:

• <none>

Due to the time-consuming validation, the checks are normally only carried out if the programmer is in the developing phase. This will be recognized according to a developer installation being found. Both can be overridden by a registry entry.

In order to override the current setting, lookup for the DWORD entry in

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Kithara\Drivers\<your_package_name>\CheckMode

and set it to “0” or “1”, respectively.