St have a good series of MCU’s and I have stuck with F405 for a while. But, I just discovered G474RE, G484RE, G484CEm G491CE etc. This series is very similar to F405, but contains a lot of extras for a lower price. Also some of the MCU’s are LQFP48, but it is still a M4…
BSA is moving on and is getting more advanced on the diagramming side than I actually planned for in this first version, so one option I am considering is to create a free flowcharting tool. I basically only need to wrap up some of the interfaces and add a print/preview option in addition to custom…
This actual screen dump from BSA illustrate both User Control and User Diagrams. The diagram to left is a process diagram very common to a lot of industrial control systems. This diagram is the actual, main user interface in this case. The User Gauge to right is just an illustration made by 3 polygons and…
One of the big things with any GUI/HMI is the capability to quickly create new user controls. The method I want to use is to let the user create this using a state-matrix. Layers in rows with layer 0=preview and columns as states. The control is illustrated above. In this example I plan to rotate…
And there we area – still a bit work in progress with styling details, but I have passed the point of no return. Back in the days then I coded MFC for User Interface I often upgraded my apps almost for free by just sticking to classic development. This was what I did here as…
Work in progress. I found an example of how to change the style of Windows controls and voila – all the controls I have not styled myself changed. Notice the scroll bars etc. This is what I liked with Visual Studio back in the old days – you just stayed loyal to their scheme and…
This list will increase, but I need to start with some basic components. The first version I need is HMI only together with a few other components: DataSource Generic definition of a source that can be connected to a HMI component to read/write data. This will be a named component that is implemented manually allowing…
The easiest way to discuss properties is by discussing actual components, so I start with HMI Form. The terminology “Form” is well known for C# developers. I could have used dialog, window or whatever, but decided that “Form” is a good word. What you see below is the current HMI Form draft used in BSA.…
The next task on BSA is to get my Property Editor functional. What you see above is an early demo draft to test a concept. I just wanted to get a feeling with how this could be done and test out the “Text Edit” part. The concept with a Property Editor is that you click…
I will need an editor for PScript and the most obvious path is to integrate this into BSA as a building block. PScript evolved from an experiment into being a Plain Interpreter and this makes it easier because I can actually generate source code for other languages from PScript. Meaning you can write PScript and…