Writing Floats to a Trilogic FX2424

[ShutterAce]

I am a completely new to HMI's and VB programming. It's OK to treat me like I know nothing. This is a one-off machine that we have built in-house. I'm just trying to make the interface user-friendly.

I have been able to get my controls and lamps working as well as doing reads and writes to DM's. I cannot, however, figure out how to write to a 32 bit FP. I can read from them with no problem. I'm sure it's probably something really simple but it is escaping me.

In a nutshell, I am using the Digital Panel Meters to read and write variables to and from the PLC. This works fine except for when the data is a float. The format is "00.000". I am connected via TCP. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

[Archie]

Is it writing at all? Did you have to change the ByteSwap or WordSwap in the driver properties? If so, you will need to apply a patch for it to write correctly.

[ShutterAce]

Yes, both SwapBytes and SwapWords are set to true.

Sometimes it will appear to write. What happens is I will try to change a stored value and it comes back as ".000" instead of the value I tried to input.

What patch is it that I might need?

[Archie]

See this:

http://advancedhmi.com/forum/index.php?topic=1612.msg8800#msg8800

[ShutterAce]

Awesome! Seems to be working.

Thank You Archie.