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…
This table shows the planned BSA support. Windows, Raspberry PI and STM32 are primary development targets, but Linux is covered through Raspberry PI and Mac’s will be covered. Other platforms, specially on the BSP (Board Support Package) side will be added. Platform BSA Designer HMI Browser BSP Windows Yes Yes Yes Linux Yes Yes Yes…
DataGrid and PropertyEditor is still work in progress, but the same PropertyEditor that is used in BSA will also be available as a component. The same goes to the DataGrid. DataGrid is a smaller grid designed to use inline edit. I will also use a virtual grid designed to visualize huge amounts of data. I…
This is the beginning of BSA’s property editor. A property editor is a specialized grid that can edit objects and is very common in dveloper tools. Rather than produsing hundreds of IO diialogs you use a generic editor that you pass a list of variables. The way this will work is that it show the…