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by mwidger
Thu Mar 26, 2015 4:03 am
Forum: Dynamics
Topic: Circular Meter : change Minimum and Maximum value
Replies: 1
Views: 11595

Re: Circular Meter : change Minimum and Maximum value

If you mean the circular gauge, then this can only be configured at design time with the current software. There is no API that exposes these properties during runtime so therefore they cannot be scripted. Hopefully this will be available in a future release, but only Beijer can answer that question.
by mwidger
Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:59 am
Forum: Application Development
Topic: Can two objects have same name?
Replies: 1
Views: 7646

Re: Can two objects have same name?

Ya-Hoo, I would not advise it as objects should be uniquely identifiable. The .Net framework will also complain if the object types are the same and you use the same name (although this depends on object scope - see below). So you could have the following which will be OK (but is poor practice) as t...
by mwidger
Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:18 pm
Forum: Application Development
Topic: Quality of Support
Replies: 3
Views: 9742

Re: Quality of Support

I disagree! The development environment is not very well thought out and it has a frustratingly inconsistent API which is severely limited. .Net is a fantastic framework but I'm not convinced its ready in this format for industrial control. I cannot comment on the quality of the hardware as it's my ...
by mwidger
Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:50 am
Forum: Controller Communication
Topic: S7-400 H System
Replies: 1
Views: 14780

S7-400 H System

All, This question has been asked a number of times already across these forums and no one seems to have an answer, so I will ask again in the hope that an expert out there may just have the answer. How is PLC redundancy handled by the HMI as all attempts so far have resulted in an application that ...