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Support Questions / Re: A connection request was made on an already connected socket

« on: April 06, 2013, 10:05:09 AM »

This is a known issue that has been addressed in the next release. When the CIP connection closes, it does not close the corresponding TCP socket.

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Support Questions / Re: Connections to a SLC 5/01 DH485

« on: March 21, 2013, 10:44:59 AM »

I have connected to the older DH485 processors using a 1770-KF3 module. It is essentially a DF1 to DH485 converter. A PIC module will not work because it relies on software token passing which is very difficult and nearly impossible in .NET

I have never used the UIC module, but it may work if it maps to a COM port.

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Support Questions / Re: EthernetIPforCLXComm ReadAny() sometimes returns SequenceNumber

« on: March 19, 2013, 08:41:17 PM »

I have not yet been able to reproduce this yet, but the next version (3.27) has some portions of the Ethernet driver reworked, so maybe it will be fixed.. I'm not sure when the version will be ready for release.

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Tips & Tricks / Installation without Frustration

« on: March 18, 2013, 09:55:04 PM »

There are many methods of deploying your completed project. The one I recommend and use myself is to copy the complete solution to the PC and create a shortcut to the EXE found in the \bin  folder (debug or release depending on how you have Visual Studio setup). I will then move the shortcut to the Startup menu. This is commonly referred to as XCOPY deployment.

This solves the biggest problem to the next person that must maintain or modify the HMI by keeping the full source code with the executable easy at hand. Nothing more frustrating than wanting to make a simple modification and not being able to find the source code.

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Application Showcase / Screen Shot of Program using only BasicLabels

« on: March 14, 2013, 03:02:17 PM »

I did this more or less for a demo to show what can be done with just a BasicLabel and background image.

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Feature Request / Re: Component event hooks

« on: March 14, 2013, 02:45:26 PM »

A trick that is used often is to add a BasicLabel and an event handler for TextChanged. In the event handler, you can read a large chunk of data. That keeps communications way down by only monitoring the one value.

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Support Questions / Re: Modbus TCP driver

« on: March 14, 2013, 02:32:28 PM »

I don't think it can do floating point. Only bits, integers, and double integers.

That driver was developed using a Modbus simulator and the simulator did not support floating point. What hardware are you using?

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Support Questions / Re: Advanced HMI as soft-PLC?

« on: March 13, 2013, 01:13:47 PM »

The Ethernet/IP driver does not support IO messaging necessary to be a scanner.

The difficulty with making it a PLC controller is that .NET nor windows is real time therefore the response could get as bad as several seconds, depending on what Windows decides is priority. Some companies have developed a real time kernel for windows, but that is a whole other animal.

In the future there may be a possibility of a driver that makes AdvancedHMI an Ethernet/IP adapter to a scanner like the 1756-ENBT

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Support Questions / Re: AdvancedHMI on Pro-Face touch panel running Windows XP

« on: March 11, 2013, 08:57:29 PM »

That's good news. Those ones that run on one PC but not another are the toughest ones to figure out.

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Support Questions / Re: Win 7 VS 2012 Express

« on: March 09, 2013, 01:08:41 AM »

Are you able to build the solution and get items in the Toolbox?

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Support Questions / Re: AdvancedHMI on Pro-Face touch panel running Windows XP

« on: March 07, 2013, 07:32:11 PM »

Would it be possible to install Visual Studio on the panel and run the app from the development environment? That will hopefully give more details on the error.

Another thing to try is to change to .NET framework 4.0  This can be done by right clicking AdvancedHMI in the Solution Explorer and selecting properties. You can change the target framework under the Compile tab. Depending on your version of Visual Studio, it may be at the bottom of the page under Advanced Compile Options