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Open Discussion / Easter Eggs Anyone?

« on: July 10, 2015, 09:51:13 PM »

I like to have some fun while deep in programming (relieves some stress & lightens the pressure to get the project done) so I occasionally hide an Easter Egg or 2 in my projects.

I was just wondering what anyone else has put "extra" in their projects.

A simple one I do is casually find out the owners birthday & put a compare in the PLC to set a bit on his birthday & use it to make an object visible on that day. I found that the object appears briefly at first until it figures out it should be off, so I put the text as a space, with alternate text of the birthday wish - controlled by the same bit.  Also have put a birthday screen with the FormChangeButton only being visible on that day.

Have thought of a few things to do on April 1st, but common sense has prevailed & I didn't do them. (One was going to be make the "Home" FormChangeButton not visible on 4/1 and have a different button that read "Home" appear but go to a different screen).

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Support Questions / Passcode for Keypad Call?

« on: July 08, 2015, 10:39:40 AM »

Trying to replicate an old (crashed) PanelmatePC project & so far AdvancedHMI has been better, with more options.

However, this morning I came across an entry - a BasicLabel showing the Program Number. When it's clicked on to access the keypad to change the program number a keypad appears asking for a Passcode before the entry keypad appears.

Is there any way to add a Passcode to a keypad call, short of creating a new page to change the program number & adding a passcode to that FormChangeButton?

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Support Questions / DF1 Error In Version 't'

« on: July 07, 2015, 11:37:50 AM »

Installed Version 398t, added my existing project, & been working OK but occasionally when debugging it crashes I shows a DF1 error:

This happens on different pages as soon as I click a Pushbutton or click enabled Pilot Light, but not every time , and doesn't replicate on the same button later. Have to Stop debugging then Start again & this time the same object that crashed before works, but later a different object will give the same error, maybe.

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Support Questions / Is Version 398s Complete?

« on: July 01, 2015, 09:27:43 AM »

When I decided to start my project fresh, I downloaded AdvancedHMI V398s. Opened it, Built it, started my project (for AB SLC 5/04 using DF1).

I reconstructed the main screen, with 2 Form Change buttons (but not assigned to a from yet) then added 2 forms, reconstructed the 2 forms as normal, then when I wanted to assign which form to open to the Change Form buttons, I did a Rebuild. & got a lot of errors in MfgControl.AdvancedHMI.Controls & .Drivers - when I went to the Debug folder in Explorer there were no such files.

I copied the file from the V398g folder to V398s, reopened VS & tried to rebuild again, but got 60 errors: (doesn't seem to be compatible versions)

After the errors I tried to reopen all 3 pages & got VS errors, had to click Ignore & Continue, but then got 3 empty screens, all reverted to default size 300x300, no background color, no objects at all.

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Support Questions / Form Change Causes KeyNotFoundException

« on: June 25, 2015, 12:04:16 PM »

I can add a new page, put a FromChange button on the main screen & use it once. If I add another page & a FormChange for that I can go to that page, but if I try to go to the earlier accessable page I get a KeyNotFoundException error with the detail "The given key was not present in the dictionary".

If I add another page I can access the new page but both previous pages show the error. I do Build (&/or Rebuild tried too) after adding a new page, compared the properties of the working button with the non-working ones, insured that the FormToOpen is the correct page (& all 3 pages show up to select - so they're there)

Is there something I'm missing here or not doing right?