Don’t worry – you will hear a lot about the Property Editor. The one you see above is yet a simple one. I am still using string edit for colors, but it works fine due to the nature of JavaScript. JavaScript accept colors in string format by name or #xxxxxxxx. (ARGB format). I will add…
I am reaching a point where my illustrations regarding BSA are more and more the real thing. Property Editor is now real so I can start edit the components and add properties. I have a few days work setting up correct properties and then I will deal with saving and loading projects and a few…
A critical component for a HMI Frontend is “Data Source”, meaning where is data loaded and saver. HMI alone is worthless unless it is actually connected to something. This can be a remote Modbus device, a database, simple memory structure, file structures etc. BSA will provide the component, but the user must add the source…
Yet Another Fake Diagram. The symbols are real, but the links between the symbols are fakes yet… give me a few days. But, the fun is that I have reached a point where it is easier to make illustrations using BSA than Powerpoint. The illustration show a classic sub-diagram – you have a state symbol…
I have 2 different diagram techniques that overlap PLD and UML State Diagrams. In reality I could merge the two to one and then let it up to the user how detailed the diagrams needs to be. A possible hybrid diagram is shown below. This diagram is obviously a fake, but I just wanted to…
This first version of BSA will not have any capability to create anything than HMI, so we need to be smart about how we integrate source code. And the answer is straight forward: We could parse the source and auto-detect interface functions and events – it is possible, but it will require a good parser…
A “device” is a definition in our system that can be visualized as anything you want – in this example I use an image showing two of my cards attached. What is important is that this device have input and output events – in this case shown as PLD terminals. This is a mock-up diagram…
Many solutions depend on something happening as a responce to time – it can be something you need to do 12 a clock Wednesday or every second, but to do so you need a timer object that can generate a signal on the requested time. This tool is needed in all diagrams in BSA for…
The table below shows the current list of tools in HMI Designer part of BSA. It is few common tools like lines, notes etc not listed here, but this is the basic collection. I might add a few tools as I see the need, but this will more or less be version 1.0. A main…
Having worked with computers in 40+ years I must admit that I sometime dig into nostalgia and look at vintage computers before I recall how little you got done and how much time things took. The world has moved on – and thanks for that. RP2040 or Raspberry Pi Pico if you like is a…