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Support Questions / Parameter files

« on: December 15, 2016, 08:35:47 AM »

I've searched the boards, and if the solution to this is here I over looked it. 

What I'm wanting to do is create a single form that gets a parameter file passed to it. The parameter file would contain indexed tags that would be distributed to controls upon loading the form.

 I can create a form for each "station" but this is really inefficient. The ability to have one form whose tag references change based on an INI file would be very beneficial.  Is this something AdvancedHMI can do currently?  If not, I'll try to develop a solution and submit it for inclusion in to the next release for AdvancedHMI. Do you have any recommendations on how to go about implementation?

I'm currently leaning toward adding a property to the FormChangeButton Control that specifies the INI file.  Then maybe a subroutine in a module file that can be called on form load that will iterate over a collection of objects in the target form that does a search and replace for the index with tag.

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Support Questions / Read failed status code -20

« on: July 17, 2013, 11:16:12 AM »

Hiya Archie,

I have a form that has approximately 24 Comboboxes on it that I am populating using the new ReadSynchronous function (Which to this point seems to have fixed the previous sequence numbers being returned, Great job to those who contributed to the fix! ).  That being said I do seem to be getting a lot of read failures that return a value of -20.  I doubt this has anything to do with the new function.  More likely it's due to my network.

I traced this back to the WaitForResponse function.  Basically, if I understand the function, you are waiting for 1 second for a response.  If no response is received you return the error value of -20.

My questions are. What network topology was the current MaxTicks value optimized for?  Do you have an algorithm for determining a value based on different topologies?

Thanks again!

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Support Questions / Upgrading from 3.26 to 3.40

« on: June 29, 2013, 08:50:24 AM »

Archie,

  Thanks for the update. I look forward to testing it.  I'm curious though what the standard method of upgrading the core advancedHMI is.  Do you copy the contents of the zip file into your project folder and rebuild, or setup a new project using the new core files then import all of your custom code into the new project.

  I haven't seen anything on the forum regarding this. If I've overlooked it I apologize.

Thanks,

Mickey