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.…
In a classic circular gauge we often use a needle to indicate current value. To draw this you have two options – (1) you can compute cartesian coordinates or (2) you can just draw the needle and rotate it – I used the later trick in this example. I have no idea what is the…
Some of you will remember my idea to use a grid to enter components one by one and then showing the result at top. Having tested that option a bit I decided against it. I found that just using the normal designer stacking the components on top of eachother was easier. At the end you…