Just testing the diagrams in BSA and realizing (yet again) that the mini-editor I was happy with for small description texts will be a big failure on editing source code. Modern source code editors have so many features I miss in the mini editor + the editor is not easy to use for this purpose…
I only lack Legend and Plot line component to make a plot as I made the rest as part of the Linear gauge. Drawing a line on screen is easy. Drawing a line with thousands of points at 60 FPS (Frames per sec) is not easy. The issue is that data arrives at the CPU…
Picture from testing Linear Gauges and playing around… I won’t recommend making a bar plot the way I did over to left, but funny that I can. Just playing around with various gauge setting to test. This one actually took a bit of time due to all the options included – and still I haven’t…
This shows a simplified BSA Workflow. So far I have mostly blogged about the BSA Designer that will read and write a project repository – or more exact an xml file. The content of this file is used by BSA Compiler to generate Errors or Target Source Code. Source Code is generated towards a target…
This picture shows two Linear Gauges created as User Controls. I have not added the linear slider yet, but these are examples of assembling individual controls as a new user controls. The User Control itself is just a shaped background and all HMI components over that will be part of the user control. In this…
This took me < 2 min to set up and is just a simple Modbus demo. ComLink1 is a serial port connected to com3 in this case. The component has an auto option that allows it to always be connected that I use in this case. ModbusTable1 define parts of a Modbus map – in…
This shows the Standard Circular Gauge. Starting from left I only show the needle and add component by component – in this case by enabling a checkbox. Background is made half transparent, something all colors support. This is a standard Draw, Drop & Use gauge in case yoiu don’t want the extra fuzz of creating…
The last circular component I want to write about is the Slider – a circular slider. I will build Linear Gauge later and after that I want to do the Real Time Plot – all build component by component. A Circuar Slider is basically only a needle with a larger Inner-/Outer- Radius formed as a…
One of the challenges I have is that it is a big difference from making a library component and making a BSA supported component. Take Width/Hight/Center/Radius of a circular gauge as an example – this is straight forward in your own code, but doing the same on a visual designer is challenging because the visual…
As I now have some components that I can use to create a Gauge I also need a way to design the final API for that Gauge. Each component have a set of properties I want to access as a group, so I need an easee way to combine properties and add logic if needed.…