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…
The easiest way to discuss properties is by discussing actual components, so I start with HMI Form. The terminology “Form” is well known for C# developers. I could have used dialog, window or whatever, but decided that “Form” is a good word. What you see below is the current HMI Form draft used in BSA.…
The next task on BSA is to get my Property Editor functional. What you see above is an early demo draft to test a concept. I just wanted to get a feeling with how this could be done and test out the “Text Edit” part. The concept with a Property Editor is that you click…
I will need an editor for PScript and the most obvious path is to integrate this into BSA as a building block. PScript evolved from an experiment into being a Plain Interpreter and this makes it easier because I can actually generate source code for other languages from PScript. Meaning you can write PScript and…
To move a line you select it. Selection is done by moving the mouse over the line and clicking the left button. As you select the line the end point markers will show and you move the mouse to an and point and simply move it with the mouse. If you move the marker outside…
We will always have some kind of RTOS behind PScript regardless where we execute, so what I need a few system functions to interface to the RTOS in an uniform way. I my own linear scheduler that scale better than and that is perfect for extending thread shifters. The advantage is that I get the…
Part 6 introduces an easy way of communicating where one module raise an event and another receive it. But, for this to work I need some infrastructure that easyIPC provides for me. easyIPC uses a device address where device 0 is NMT (Network Master) on the local network. At this point I don’t care if…