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Support Questions / Re: Program debugged fine on laptop, fails on industrial machine

« on: October 08, 2024, 08:41:11 AM »

I changed the exception settings in the debug tool to flag everything and ran it with visual studio.  That showed a couple of errors that I corrected, and now it runs without crashing.

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Support Questions / Program debugged fine on laptop, fails on industrial machine

« on: October 03, 2024, 12:47:54 PM »

I have a program that I built that debugs fine on my laptop with visual studio. When I transfer it to my advanced HMI industrial PC, it will load, but when changing forms, it will crash with no error or warning.  How can I find out what the problem is?

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Support Questions / Extra colors on basicindicator

« on: June 05, 2024, 04:17:39 PM »

I am looking at an application where I will need to have some indicators that can vary between 4 or 5 different colors.  Is it possible to modify the basicindicator component so it could handle that?

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Support Questions / Re: Second monitor

« on: May 01, 2024, 04:43:47 PM »

I'm guessing it will be something like creating a second MainForm, but I'm not sure how the panel loads the files on boot. Do I just put a second .sln file in the root directory of the thumb drive?  What would I name it?

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Support Questions / Graphic indicator

« on: April 11, 2024, 12:41:11 PM »

I have multiple statuses for equipment, stored in my compactlogix as DINT variables (0=stop, 1=run, 2=trip).  The PLC stores the DINT data as booleans (eg. if Conv2_Stat is 2, then Conv2_Stat.0=False and Conv2_Stat.1=True). 

O am trying to get these variables to drive graphicindicator blocks.  I can get them to work if I specify individual boolean variables, but won't work when I use Conv2_Stat.0 as PLCAddressValueSelect1 and Conv2_Stat.1 as PLCAddressValueSelect2.  Am I doing something wrong, or is this just not going to work?

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Support Questions / Second monitor

« on: April 02, 2024, 09:26:00 AM »

Hello, I've got the 17" Industrial panel, and I'm trying to set up a second monitor for a process overview screen.  How do I do that - create the second screen that is.  I have a TV attached as the monitor, but I don't know how to get the second form in VB created.

I have not dealt with VB much at all, and all of my HMI experience is Allen-Bradley PanelView and older PanelMate controls.  This seems to have a steep learning curve, hopefully I'll figure it out before our go-live date, but the lack of documentation is frustrating.

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Support Questions / Change colors on Chart with logging

« on: March 27, 2024, 12:02:44 PM »

Is it possible to change the plot and background colors on the chart with logging?