I just copied text from an earlier blog into my mini text editor for demonstration – and this works out very nicely. The capability to edit text is usually a dinosourus in these apps, so I am very happy to see that this one actually works out well and are very functional. I need to…
Many of the HMI controls use actual Windows Controls as base. In the example above I draw a simulated design form as a symbol and use various build-in controls to get the result as real as possible. The challenge is that these controls are designed to be in control – not be controlled by a…
Just to prove my point with borders being to dark I encreased them from 0x32,0x32,0x32 to 0x64 and it makes a big difference as you now actually can see the outline of the control. Keep in mind that these border lines are design help, not actual borders on the real Form. In design mode we…
The HMI Designer part is progressing, but I must admit that it is a large project and I don’t always have time to work on it. Finally started to wrap up the Property Editor and styling up HMI controls that still have light style. The example form above got a bit dark and close to…
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…