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Support Questions / Please Help a newbie get started - i'm lost
« on: December 21, 2023, 01:24:49 PM »
I've done Industrial controls for 7 years, and I did a lot of computer programming in college, but nothing with visualBasic. I'm a bit lost getting started in AdvancedHMI and I haven't found much helpful yet in the documentation, so maybe someone here would kindly direct me to where I can find some information so I can start getting things to work:
1 - How do I create a new "page" / "Form" what have you in AdvancedHMI? I started out with MainForm or MainPage and at some point I did something and a Page2 appeared, but I don't know how I did it and I can't seem to create another one. I tried to copy but it had reference problems. I created a new form but then my button to change forms didn't let me select the form in the drop down menu. Clearly, i'm missing something here.
2- Where is the numeric input keypad? I see posts referring to this existing, can't find it. No idea where to even start.
3 - how do I create a normal "plain jane" rectangular button with a border?
4 - I made an Annunciator as a text display. Turns out its a button and you click it and it turns red because it wrote to a tag that doesn't exist. Is there a text box I can make without a button?
I think these questions would be answered if there was some documentation in front of me. What I'm finding goes from 0 to 100 pretty quickly which has me lost, quite a lot.
thanks in advance
1 - How do I create a new "page" / "Form" what have you in AdvancedHMI? I started out with MainForm or MainPage and at some point I did something and a Page2 appeared, but I don't know how I did it and I can't seem to create another one. I tried to copy but it had reference problems. I created a new form but then my button to change forms didn't let me select the form in the drop down menu. Clearly, i'm missing something here.
2- Where is the numeric input keypad? I see posts referring to this existing, can't find it. No idea where to even start.
3 - how do I create a normal "plain jane" rectangular button with a border?
4 - I made an Annunciator as a text display. Turns out its a button and you click it and it turns red because it wrote to a tag that doesn't exist. Is there a text box I can make without a button?
I think these questions would be answered if there was some documentation in front of me. What I'm finding goes from 0 to 100 pretty quickly which has me lost, quite a lot.
thanks in advance