Wizcon 7, Version 7.5 Release Notes
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1. IF B IDYES MACRO LoadMain This will display the message Run Macro and if user pressed Yes it will run the macro Load Main Caution WizSQL does not execute any commands when a Message box is open Saving Charts as Trends When you save a Wizcon chart automatically a trend file is also created wnt When you update the trend and then you return to your chart and save it a message appears asking you if you want to save the chart and overwrite the trend Yes will overwrite the trend file and No will only save the chart Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 14 Notes 1 Trends do not support graphs with x axis defined as a tag Therefore if the user created a chart with this kind of graph the new trend will be a regular graph In the Time definition dialog of the chart the user can choose relative and write the time back in the format hours minutes seconds for example 03 40 50 but in the Trend definition the user can write only relative hour so in the example above the new trend will be 4 hours relative the time will be rounded up In the chart the user can choose for the line type Line Line with markers Markers only and Bar In the trend there is only Line and Line with markers therefore Markers only in chart will become Line with markers in trend and Bar in chart will become Line in the trend It is not enough to write the title of the chart in the proper2. To regulate automatic scrolling From the Options menu select Online scroll step A popup menu displays the following options Select No step Full window 1 2 window 1 3 window 1 4 window Time label To enable one small bar at a time appears on the time scale A scroll of one full window The default step A scroll of one half of the current window size A scroll of one third of the current window size A scroll of one fourth of the current window size The time label in the trend applet at the browser is no longer in the format HH mm ss sss but HH mm ss Tag Communication Status Indication In Picture Viewer all numerical and text display elements in the Picture Viewer show asterisks when the tag associated with them is in communication error mode Improved Performance and Java 1 1 Support This version is making use of Java 1 1 APIs The Web browser must support Java 1 1 to work with Wizcon for Internet 2 0 Netscape Communicator 4 06 and Internet Explorer 4 both support Java 1 1 Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 3 HTML Generation With this release HTML files created using Wizcon HTML Assistant no longer contain JavaScript code Faster Download Time Wizcon for Internet Java applets are now packed in smaller packages leading to improvement in download time Web Application Publishing The Publish To option is no longer needed Instead to make the application available on
3. Miscellaneous Undo Copying objects using lt Ctrl C gt does not support the Undo feature Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 21 Image Resolution Image Resolution is online Set the Image resolution factor in Image Properties gt View tab To take effect close image and re open Installing Wizcon 7 5 on a PC with a Previous Wizcon 7 Version As in many Windows products it is recommend to uninstall previous versions of Wizcon 7 before installing the new version However it is possible to install Wizcon 7 5 to a different folder than W7 xx and thus enabling the possibility to run both versions on the same PC The following needs to be noted The new MFC42 DLL installed with Wizcon 7 5 may cause problems with Wizcon 7 xx Before installing copy MFC42 DLL from the windows systems folder to W7 xx BIN folder After installing W7 5 WZ7 files will be linked to W7 5 To run W7 xx you can change this link in folder options or run WIZCON EXE from W7 xxBIN folder with command line of WZ7 Wizcon installs and uses some OCXs W7 xx may not work correctly with Visual Basics programs after installing Previous version of Wizcon for Internet W4I Wizcon 7 5 has built in Web support therefore it is advisable to remove the previous version of W4I and run the application using WZ7 Solved Problems iss Bo ED Ge 10 11 12 The following problems were solved in this version Event summary may hang if many alarms are ge
4. The Trend feature provides real time and historical graphical view of tags values over time Wizcon for Internet architecture provides additional benefits for remote control applications and applications where frequent causal access is required For those applications historical display of data is critical In such applications an operator may wish to log in to his application at the end of the day and check what happened during the day The Trend feature includes Historical cache mechanism Offers improved performance with minimum load on the server Asynchronous historical data download As a result the Trend is always responsive to the user Performance On a local area network performance is similar to Wizcon for Windows It is possible to use trends over dial up connection Show multiple tags over time Historical and on line data support X amp Y axis labeling Offers different Line Colors and Line Types The trend component takes less than 400K to download Trend Scroll step In the Trend Profile Dialog gt Display you can select the scroll step as in the chart Default 2 window Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 2 Trend Profile Tags Time X Axis time format Display T trend name and background color Te Background color Foreground color Scroll step __ No window C Full window 1 2 window 1 3 window C 1 4 window Cancel Help
5. hook Clients hook value Output pusState Network checking state 0 checking disabled Ai 1 checking enabled sy Return WIZ NO ERR WIZERR BAD HOOK WIZERR NO QUEUE RIGO E E K AE HE E ICICI I E E AE AE E ICICI III I E AE E AEE E K I I I KKK Tag Enhancements Tag Icons Wizcon marks tag type with icons Below please find the new analog and digital icons used to mark tags in the Studio Tag List my Analog icon ry Digital icon Single Tag When you select highlight a tag from the Studio s List of Tags the Single Tag dialog opens with tag already selected But if you did not select a tag the tag name field in the Single Tag dialog will be empty You will need to select a tag name from the tag listbox or enter the tag name in the tag name field Improved Conversion Utility Wizcon DOS to Wizcon 7 A new improved version of the conversion utility from Wizcon DOS to Wizcon 7 is now available This version cuts down the conversion time considerably For complete information please refer to the Wizcon 7 User s Manual Install the conversion utility from the Value Pack CD Print Control The following tuning parameters were added for better print control e WRITE FORMAT RTL or LTR The user can write Hebrew text in two ways in one way the cursor is at the left side and Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 20 the writing is done from the left side to the right side LTR and in the second way the
6. 1 to 7 e MONTHDAY return the day of the month 1 to 31 e MONTH return the current month 1 to 12 s YEAR return the current year 4 digits like 1999 These variables can be used in any numerical expression Note that condition statements that are based only on these variables as IF HOUR 12 will not work since Tag changes are event driven IF events are only driven by tag changes Macro Command Support for running Wizcon macros is now available Use the MACRO command to execute macro Syntax MACRO macro_name macro_name is a string expression that will be used as the Macro name Macro names are eight characters long Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 12 Message Box A function to display Message Box from WizSQL script is now available The function is similar to the standard Windows API MessageBox and has the following syntax RC MessageBox String expression1 String expression2 Flags Note that MessageBox must be written as shown it is case sensitive String_exppresison1 The message body String_exprssion1 The message title Flgs combination of one of the following constants e MB OK The message box contains one push button OK e MB OKCANCEL The message box contains two push buttons OK and Cancel e MB ABORTRETRYIGNORE The message box contains three push buttons Abort Retry and Ignore e MB YESNOCANCEL The message box contains three push buttons Yes No and Cancel e MB _ YESNO The message box conta
7. cursor is in at the right side and the writing is done from right to left RTL Default LTR e PRINTER FORMAT DOS or WINDOWS If the ASCII of Hebrew characters is between 224 and 250 then the user should use WINDOWS but if it s between 128 and 154 then the user should write DOS Default DOS e PRINTER LINE COMPRESSED or NONCOMPRESSED If the user sets his printer to write in a compressed way he should add this parameter COMPRESSED Default NONCOMPRESSED User Password In the User Definition dialog the password is displayed as asterisks when users type password and when User entry is selected from the list There is no need to retype password each time when changing user definition as Groups or default layout Path Design gt Authorization gt Users Improved Wizcon Language Disk full Message Wizcon language Alarms for Disk full can now be controlled Two new tuning parameters can be used to set the LOW and HIGH limits for the percentage of disk available In addition the percentage is now of type float was integer and this gives better control The parameters are to set in the Wiztune dat file are WIL DISK LOW LIMIT xx xx Default is 75 WIL DISK HIGH LIMIT xx xx Default is 97 Both values are limited to 0 up to 100 and if LOW is bigger than HIGH it will be set to HIGH Wizcon Language commands Y2K Compatible The following Wizcon language commands are compatible with the year 2000 YEAROF YEAR DATE
8. form s It is not recommended to use the following dynamic operations on buttons Scale Rotate Fill and Fill type They do not have an effect on the buttons or the effect is unpredicatable e Buttons will not display the presses effect if they are grouped in an instance with more than one element Effects on Dynamic and Alarm objects on one button operate OK if there are no other dynamic objects on it e Font direction is left to right Up down and right to left are not supported Web support The button is supported for the Web Fonts are transferred to the browser as in regular text written in Image Please note that when pressing on button you do not see the pressed effect in the browser Button ASCII File Below please find how a button is defined in an Image ASCII file ILS Button object OBJECT BUTTON object number General data FONT font style FACENAME font name TEXT_SIZE font size T Tont direction T Tont data box position CAPTION text Trigger definition Gradient Pattern Image drawing patterns now support 32 gradient styles The first color used for the gradient is the foreground color while the last color used is the background color Gradient fills are supported for the following objects Text Filled Box Circle and Polygon Please note that pipes do not support Gradient fills The pattern tool selection looks like Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 8
9. hook stnName StnId Attr serverName ulBackupTime pGCount 1 pAlCount 1 strcpy stnName RACHELI pNameList WIZ GT NAME malloc 100 sizeof WIZ GT _NAME 1 pAlertFilterList WIZ ALERT FILTER malloc 10 sizeof WIZ ALERT FILTER 1 re WizGetRmtRecDataFull hook stnName pGCount pNameList pAlCount pAlertFilterList rc USHORT WizSetRmtRecData hook GateCount pNameList AlFilters pAlertFilterList Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 19 Network Enable Disable advanced users only Some networks applications require checking if communication exists For such networks the following APIs can be used USHORT EXPENTRY WizSetNetworkCheckState WIZ HOOK hook USHORT usState JX ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee A Purpose Enable disable communication error checking If usState is TRUE 1 communication error checking will be performed If usState is FALSE 0 checking will not be performed Input hook Clients hook value usState Checking state TRUE or FALSE 1 or 0 Return WIZ NO ERR WIZERR BAD HOOK WIZERR NO QUEUE III III ICICI II III ICICI I I III II IIR A I II I A A kkk ae USHORT EXPENTRY WizGetNetworkCheckState WIZ HOOK hook USHORT pusState BK KK KK KK KK I I RRR AA KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK A Purpose Retrieve current state of network communication error checking Input
10. the web map Wizcon for Internet web application directory as the primary directory of your web server For further information see the Wizcon 7 User s Guide or Online Help Class Files When creating a new application not under the original Wizfactory proj path all the classes are copied from the Wizfactory path to the new application the minute you create the first HTML file through Wizcon Please make sure to update your existing application classes whenever you update Wizfactory Copy the updated class files from Wizfactory path to your application That means to copy from the Wizfactory Class folder the following jclass folder Wizcon folder and jar and cab files Applets The maximum number of concurrent applets that can be connected to one Wizcon Web server are 512 An applet is connected to a server if it is opened in a browser HTML page even if it is not in the visible part Application developers should consider having HTML with many applets and switching to different parts of the HTML versus loading different HTMLs with small number of applets in each The first way will save time in loading the applets at the expense of loading the communication The second way does not load the communication more than is needed at the cost of switching time between HTML pages Support for Rounded Box in Web Rounded boxes are now supported in Browsers Project Wizard A new Project Wizard is available It allows applications de
11. ERS SCC CSCCCICSCOCISSCCCI hhh USHORT EXPENTRY WizGetRmtRecDataFull WIZ HOOK hook WIZ STN NAME stnName PUSHORT GateCount WIZ GT NAME NameList PUSHORT cstns WIZ_ALERT_FILTER AlertFilterList Purpose Read the file of remote tags to be recorded on the local station Only tag of the mentioned station will be returned Input stnName name of the remote station GateCount I O GateCount 1 Handle the tags GateCount 0 Handle the alarms only cstns I O cstns 1 Handle the alarm filters cstns 0 Handle the tags only Output GateCount number of tags in the list 1 if ALL NameList list of remote tags full names meaning station name cstns Number of filter in the AlertFilterList AlertFilterList list of alarms filters return rc WIZ_NO_ERR WIZERR_BAD PARAMS EF A e e hhh hhh ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak akk akk 2 ake ake afe sfe sfe sfe sfe sfe sfe sfe e ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae a ae ake ake ake ak a ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak 2K USHORT EXPENTRY WizSetRmtRecData WIZ_ HOOK hook USHORT GateCount WIZ_GT_NAME NameList USHORT cstns WIZ_ALERT_FILTER AlertFilterList Purpose Writes the new file of remote data tags and alarms to be recorded on the local station Input GateCount number of tags in the list NameList list of remote tag names or only station name if all tags of the station have to be recorded cstns number of alarm filters in the list AlertFilterList list of remot
12. Patterns x Listed below are the 32 gradient styles supported ENERALE ee TEENE NEEN Line left to right Line right to left Line top to bottom Line bottom to top Line left top to right bottom Line left bottom to right top Line right top to left bottom Line right bottom to left top Line2 left and right to center Line2 center to left and right Line2 top and bottom to center Line2 center to top and bottom Line2 left top and right bottom to center Line2 center to left top and right bottom Line2 right top and left bottom to center Line2 center to right top and left bottom Angle to left top Angle to left bottom Angle to right top Angle to right bottom Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 9 iP p L E m m The following notes apply 1 Angle from left top Angle from left bottom Angle from right top Angle from right bottom Rectangle to center Rectangle from center Ellipse to center Ellipse from center Cone from left Cone from right Cone from top Cone from bottom Gradients are not fully supported on Windows 95 98 Circles ellipses and rounded rectangles will be drawn as rectangles In the ILS file the gradient pattern numbers run between 100 to 131 ordered by the above list Bitmap fonts are not effected by the Gradient After changing attributes of gradient objects or moving from select mode image may need refresh Performance may suffer when drawing large gradient surfaces w
13. Windows like button is now available in the Wizcon Image The button is a static object that can have normal attributes as other objects such as layers and colors The main use of this object is to enable the application to contain a trigger object that has the same look and feel as a Windows button It is also possible to define over the button object dynamic alarm or triggers objects and have the same roles as any other static object Defining a Button To define a button use the new button tool on the Image Drawing toolbar right at the bottom as shown below Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 5 It is also possible to select the tool from the menu go to Edit gt Drawings Button Selecting the tool will show a specific cursor shown below E Click and hold left mouse button and drag to draw a rectangle drawn in dash line for the size and location of the button Releasing the mouse button will open the Button Properties dialog as shown below Button Properties MB General Caption Cancel Help Enter the text you want to appear on the button in the caption field Default caption is button in English Press OK and the button will be displayed in your Image A sample of a Button object is shown below Pump On The button is created with the following attributes The Button background color is Gray regardless on the current fill color in the color tool The caption color is the Line color as s
14. Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes Introduction This document includes updated information for Wizcon 7 for Windows and Internet Version 7 5 The information in this document contains late breaking changes and additions to Wizcon 7 5 What s New Listed below are some of the new or improved features in Wizcon 7 5 Wizcon for Internet integration Wizcon s new and updated Internet Features Project Wizard OPC Support Image button Gradient Patterns Touch screen numeric keypad WizSQL Enhancements Saving Charts as Trends New Macros Direct login and Exit Application Communication error time out Support for PLC address gt 255 New network APIs Network enable disable Improved Wizcon DOS to Wizcon 7 conversion utility Print Control User password displayed as asterisks in User Definition dialog Improved Wizcon Language Disk full message Wizcon Language commands are Y2K compatible Installing Wizcon 7 5 on a PC with Wizcon 7 02 Solved problems Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 1 Wizcon for Internet Integration Wizcon for Internet is now part of Wizcon If you do not want to use the Internet features you can disable the non Web features Path Wizcon Studio gt View Disable non Web features Old WZNT files extension should be renamed to WZ7 and then the files can be used with Wizcon 7 5 Wizcon s New or Updated Internet Features Trend Described below are Wizcon s new and or updated Internet features
15. e alarm filters to be recorded return rc WIZ_NO_ERR WIZERR BAD PARAMS hhh hhh hhh hhh e e e e e e ae ae a ak ak hhh ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak akk 2 ake ake ake hhh a a ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak 2K USHORT EXPENTRY WizSetLocalStationCfg WIZ_HOOK hook WIZ_STN_NAME pszStnName WIZ_STN_ID stnId ULONG attr WIZ_STN_NAME pszServerName ULONG ulBackupTime Purpose Sets the local station settings Input hook Wizpro hook pszStnName Station name stnId Station Id attr Attributes of station pszServerName ServerName ulBackupTime Frequency of Checking master station Return rc WIZ_NO_ERR WIZERR_ BAD PARAMS Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 18 Below please find an example using the above APIs rc WizSetNetworkActive hook NO re WizSetNetworkActive hook YES Fl rc WizSetNetMaxDelay hook NET MAXTIMEDELAY 1000 re WizSetNetMaxDelay hook N zal T MAXCHANGESDELAY 48 re WizSetNetProtocol hook NPINTBS rc WizSetNetProtocol hook NPITCP re WizSetNetBackup hook NET HOTBACKUP_MODE AUTO re WizSetNetBackup hook NET HOTBACKUP_ MODE MANUAL re WizSetNetBackup hook NET HOTBACKUP_ ADDR 111 22 33 re WizGetLocalStationCfg hook stnName amp StnId amp usReserved amp Attr serverName amp ulBackupTime re WizSetLocalStationCfg
16. e is updated in Excel if now you load a recipe which is defined on the same tag the DDE channel will be blocked and values will stop to be updated in Excel W7SPR184 DDEClient results to tag value trembling for float tags Tag value in Excel and Single tag input dialog is not consistent when changed by smooth input Force Dynamic show will now stop the blinking of dynamic blink objects Running HTML from Studio may crash if CLASSPATH is very long over 250 A strange start date for Login text alarms appears when using Login Text function combined with Collapse alarm WizPro s option W7SPR172 Wizcon does not freeze if add on is still running from previous application Fixing problems with mfc42 dll Visual Studio 6 Fixed crash problem when defining more than 64 500 Tags Fixed the SaveRecipe macro problem When activating a macro that performs the action SaveRecipe the macro fails with re 5 Entering wrong parameters caused this problem The correct parameters for SaveRecipe action are Model name Description W7SPR109 Data in an XY CHART is not displayed accurately When there is a big historical data displaying in an X Y CHART window the values in the XY CHART are not displayed accurately If two CHARTS are defined one TIME with XY values and one XY chart the values in the XY chart are not correct according to the values in the TIME chart WSPR688 When defining an XY chart with X axis definition Gate X gate
17. elay WIZ_HOOK hook PSZ Selector PSZ NewString Purpose Set maximum network time or maximum network change delay Input hook Wizpro hook Selector NewString If Selector NET_MAXTIMEDELAY To set maximum network time then NewString maximum time If Selector NET_MAXCHANGESDELAY To set maximum network change delay then NewString change delay return rc WIZ_NO_ERR WIZERR BAD PARAMS hhh ae ae ak ak ak a ak ak ak ak ak 2 ak ak ak ak 26 akk akk ake 6 ake 2 2 46 Ae 2 2 sfe sfe 2 6 ae ae ae ae ae 2 ae ae ae 2 ae ae ake ak a a ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak 2k USHORT EXPENTRY WizSetNetProtocol WIZ_HOOK hook PSZ NewString Purpose To choose NPINTBS NPITCP protocol Input hook Wizpro hook NewString NPINTBS for net BIOS NPITCP for TCPIP return TC WIZ NO ERR WIZERR BAD PARAMS E gt aR e e e he ae ae ae ak ak ak a he 2 ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak akk ake 2 ake ake 2 sfe sfe sfe sfe sfe sfe sfe fe fe ae e ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ake ak a a ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak 2K USHORT EXPENTRY WizSetNetBackup WIZ_HOOK hook PSZ Selector PSZ NewString Purpose To set network backup mode or network backup address Input hook Wizpro hook Selector NewString If Selector NET_HOTBACKUP_MODE then NewString AUTO or MANUAL If Selector NET HOTBACKUP_ADDR then NewString is backup address Return rc WIZ NO ERR Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 17 WIZERR BAD PARAMS S
18. ent Syntax ACOS expression expression any number e POWER Calculate power Syntax POWER x y where both x and y are expressions returns the value of x e ROOT Calculate square root Syntax ROOT expression expression gt 0 returns the square root of x e LN Calculate natural logarithm Syntax LN expression where expression gt 0 e LOG Calculate base 10 logarithm Syntax LOG expression expression gt 0 e BIT Calculate a bit Syntax BIT 1 B return the bit B value from the I integer value return values are if the bit B is set and 0 if it is reset e MAX Calculate maximum Syntax MAX x y where both x and y are expressions returns the maximum out of the two parameters e MIN Calculate minimum Syntax MIN x y where both x and y are expressions returns the minimum out of the two parameters e ABS Calculate absolute value Syntax Abs expression return the absolute value of expression In this case to differentiate from history abs function you must enter Abs e FLOOR Calculate the floor Syntax FLOOR expression return returns a floating point value representing the largest integer that is less than or equal to expression e SIGN Calculate the signSyntax SIGN expression return 1 if expression lt 0 and 1 if expression gt 0 System Variables The following system variable are now supported e MINUTES return the current minutes 0 to 59 e HOUR return the current hour 0 23 e WEEKDAY return the day of the week
19. et in the color tool The caption is always drawn with transparent background color The caption font is the font attributes selected in the font toolbar The 3D effects color are always as shown similar to Windows Button colors The layer is the current active layer The Button object can now be selected moved or resized as any other object The caption is drawn at the center of the button When resizing the button the caption does not resize To attain a different size caption select the object and change the size in Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 6 the font toolbar You can also change the background color of the button by selecting a fill color in the color tool Although the caption is not a separate text object it acts similarly in the following aspects e Selecting a button will show the font style in the font toolbar e Changing the style when the button is selected will change the font style of the button e Ifthe font style is changed through the Font Definition then any button font that has this style will be updated To change the button properties caption e Select the button and select the button tool e Double click with left button on the object e Right click on object and get a similar menu as shown with menu item Button properties Pump On S v Trigger Definition Remove Trigger Button Properties Dynamic Definition Cluster Definition Group Delete Copy to Clipboard Paste from Clipb
20. ins two push buttons Yes and No e MB RETRYCANCEL The message box contains two push buttons Retry and Cancel s MB _ICONHAND A stop sign icon appears in the message box s MB ICONQUESTION A question mark icon appears in the message box e MB ICONEXCLAMATION An exclamation point icon appears in the message box e MB ICONASTERISK An icon consisting of a lowercase letter i in a circle appears in the message box e MB SETFOREGROUND The message box becomes the foreground window e MB DEFAULT DESKTOP ONLY The desktop currently receiving input must be a default desktop otherwise the function fails A default desktop is one an application runs on after the user has logged on e MB TOPMOST The message box is created with the WS EX TOPMOST window style This will put it over all other non topmost Windows s MB RIGHT The text is right justified e MB RTLREADING Displays message and caption text using right to left reading order on Hebrew and Arabic systems The return codes are as follows e IDABORT Abort button was selected e IDCANCEL Cancel button was selected e IDIGNORE Ignore button was selected e IDNO No button was selected e IDOK OK button was selected e IDRETRY Retry button was selected Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 13 e IDYES Yes button was selected Following is example to usage of MessageBox function B MessageBox Run Macro My Title MB YESNO MB ICONASTERISK MB SETFOREGROUND
21. ith many steps It is advisable that only static background object will be using the Gradient Dynamic over Gradient is possible but performance may suffer It is also advised to do development in low number of steps and later increase steps for run time To set the gradient steps use Image gt Properties gt View or in the Wiztune dat file manually set the tuning parameter IMG GRAD STEP n Valid values are between 2 to 255 Default is 16 Re enter Image Transparent color will have unknown effect over fill The gradient is not affected from rotation or transformation It is possible to rotate objects with Gradient but the Gradient orientation will not be rotated No supported on Web Please note that if patterns are used and then brought to the Web the patterns turn to solid colors 10 The gradient for a group works like for a pattern 11 It is not possible to select Gradient fill type in Dynamic definition Fill Type range Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 10 12 The gradient s center reference point for filled polygons orthogonal polygons and filled arcs is always calculated by the visible parts of the objects Therefore when you scroll and the object partially disappears from view you ll notice that the object s center point moves upwards away from the center Touch Screen Numeric Keypad In order to enable Wizcon to support touch screens a new type of trigger is available In the Wiztune dat file manual
22. ly set the tuning parameter IMG_TRG KEYPAD YES Default is NO Restart Wizcon for it to take effect The Key Pad is available for Data Entry triggers of numeric type The following dialog will be opened Enter Value x nS F ee Note that keypad is not supported in browser The keypad operates as any other numeric keypad Press the Back button to delete one number back Press Clear to erase all numbers in the field You can set the location of your keypad anywhere on the screen Press the Test button and you can move the keypad to any location When you reopen Wizcon and operate the keypad it will be opened at the same location as you selected WizSQL Enhancements Mathematical Functions The following mathematical functions are now supported expression is any mathematical expression that evaluates to a number e SIN Calculate sine Syntax SIN expression expression angle in radians e COS Calculate cosine Syntax COS expression expression angle in radians e TAN Calculate tangent Syntax TAN expression expression angle in radians e ASIN Calculate arcsine Syntax ASIN expression expression between 1 to 1 return the arcsine of expression in the range 7 2 to m 2 radians Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 11 e ACOS Calculate arccosine Syntax ACOS expression expression between 1 to 1 return the arcsine of expression in the range 1 2 to m 2 radians e ATAN Calculate arctang
23. nerated at high rate Values in Image stop to update Converting applications from Wizcon 5 to Wizcon 7 fonts might be with wrong size and bold font instead of regular font Wizcon language definition empty message Start Wizcon Y N Master Backup bit of comm error was not transferred from the master to the backup Master Backup two alarms printed instead of only one Image Alarm object stops to update Assigning values to tags after command Terminate in WizSQL script causes an error W7SPR166 WizSQL Stop condition test after communication error with driver or network WSPR178 Default Layout field in User Setup dialog is limited to 8 characters W7SPR158 Font problem when opening Wiz5 Images in Wizcon 7 02 W7SPR155 If an add on program or WizPLC will not terminate when WizPro sends the WIZ_SIGNAL_ SHUT message then the next time that WizPro will be loaded it will fail to start and will display the error message Shutdown not completed W7SPR47 Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 22 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 DDE channel between Wizcon and Excel is blocked by Wizcon modules WizDDES Few modules can be a Client of tag at the same time However some modules block the DDE channel with Excel so that tag values caused by other modules will not be transferred to the Excel via DDE For example When you change tag value with slider the valu
24. oard Note Button properties can be changed for only one selected object and not if the button is part of any segment as dynamic or alarm object Trigger and Button As stated the main purpose of the button is to be a trigger When the button is defined as trigger then pressing activating the trigger will show the button is in pressed state as long as the mouse button is pressed The press state looks like Notes 1 The Image property Highlight Trigger Button must be turned on for this to work 2 The text will be drawn a pixel down and to the right to show the 3D effect Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 7 If any object is drawn over the button then it will be shown correctly when the button is not pressed When the button is pressed the full rectangle will be shown possibly hiding other objects The following are additional behavior characteristics of the button object e Selecting more than one button enables you to change attributes as color and font at one time e Ifthe button is part of a group then over loading color affects the button too e Itis possible to define over the button dynamic alarm or trigger and retain the same behavior as any other static object e If the button is defined as dynamic object then changing override line color will affect the background color e If the caption is larger than the button rectangle the text will flow over the button perimeters It will not resize the caption to fit the
25. on and select the ExitApplication parameter from the dropdown list Choose an Accelerator key press Add and Save Communication error time out advanced users only The communication error time out can now be controlled by using a new internal without interface tuning parameter COMMERR TIMEOUT Default value of this parameter is 30 seconds To change default value user should add to WIZTUNE DAT the following string COMMERR_TIMEOUT n Where n is number from 5 to 180 If n lt 5 it will be set to 5 if n gt 180 it will be set to 180 In addition the network query timeout can also be modified by using the new tuning parameter NET QUERY _ TIMEOUT whose range can be 1 60 seconds Default value of this parameter is as it always was for query 6 seconds this value will be accepted if parameter is absent You should add this parameter manually to WIZTUNE DAT NET_QUERY_TIMEOUT n Where n is number from 1 to 60 If lt 1 it will be set to 1 if n gt 60 it will be set to 60 Please note that the value of this parameter will influence network movement For example when the network station starts it always checks if backup station exists and if value of this parameter is large enough and backup station does not exist or is not present This can take a lot of time until station will receive answer New Network APIs advanced users only The APIs listed below allow definition of network properties APIs s
26. quest from a remote station while moving with the scroll on the chart W7SPR208 Memory loss when opening and closing Images with jpg inserts When opening and closing images that include jpg objects there is memory loss each time you open and close the IMG The lost memory is the size of the JPGs objects W7SPR196 The number of ASK tags that can be edited in cluster instance is limited to 10 Defining cluster objects that consist of more than 10 tags using the token ASK Gate xx make it impossible to redefine more than 10 tags when instantiating the cluster W7SPR157 Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 24
27. ties of the chart VP in order for it to be added to the trend the user should press save on this chart after the title was added There is no foreground color in the chart definition so in the trend it will always be black as the default for it in the trend definition 23 is the highest number that can be defined as relative time in the trend so if the user defined the time in the chart as relative more then 23 hours back he could see only 23 hours back in the trend Support for PLC Address gt 255 PLC address greater than 255 can now be used There are up to 1024 different PLC per VPI addresses that can be used where any address can be in scope 1 65535 Please note that this should be used for driver development only New Wizcon Macros Two new macros are available in Wizcon version 7 5 Direct Login and Exit Application Direct Login Macro A new macro Direct Login is now available It has two parameters User name and Password No validation is done on the values entered Note that when activated no dialog opens Path Design gt Macros The following is the dialog for this macro parameters Action Parameters Action DirectLogin User Password password Cancel Help Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 15 Exit Application Macro The Exit Application macro enables you tor to exit an application easily To define this macro select Design gt Macros In the Macro Definition dialog Press Acti
28. upported in Visual Basic C e WizSetNetworkActive Set network to active not active e WizSetNetMaxDelay To set maximum network time or maximum change delay e WizSetNetProtocol To choose network protocol net BIOS or TCPIP e WizSetNetBackup To set hot backup parameters e WizSetLocalStationCfg To set local station configuration APIs supported in C only e WizGetRmtRecDataFull To get remote data gates to be recorded and alerts lists this table contains the full name this means station gate e WizSetRmtRecData Update the file which contains the remote data tags and alarms to be recorded on the local station Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 16 Below please find a detailed explanation of the Network APIs E gt F e e e ae ae ae ae ak ak ak ak hh ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak akk ake 2 ake ake afe sfe sfe sfe sfe sfe sfe sfe fe fe ae e ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae a ake a a a ak ak ak ak ak ak ak k ak ak USHORT EXPENTRY WizSetNetworkActive WIZ_HOOK hook PSZ YesNo Purpose Set network to active not active Input hook Wizpro hook YesNo YES To set network to active NO To deactivate network return rce WIZ_NO_ERR WIZERR BAD PARAMS hhh ae ae ake ak ak a ak ak ak ak ak 2 ak ak ak ak ak akk ake 2 6 KKK hhh ae ae ak ak ak ae ak 2 ak ak ak 2 ak ak ak 2 26 ake ake 2 akk 6 2 2 sfe sfe 2 26 sfe 2 2 ae ae e ae ae ae ae ae ae a 2 a ake ake a ak a ak ak ak ak 2 ak ak ak ak 2k USHORT EXPENTRY WizSetNetMaxD
29. values the chart will not display anything when loaded for the first time WSPR698 Solved by increasing the number of point s allowed before compression from 5000 to 20 000 Parameter IMG_ SMALL INPUT BOX not configurable This parameter defines for a DIRECT trigger if you will get a box displayed with or without tag details Solved by adding a checkbox in Image gt Properties gt Trigger gt Trigger small input W7SPR 061 Recipes that are saved RSAVE Model Recipe via WIL are not seen in the Load Recipes and Save Recipes dialog boxes opened via the task bar W7SPR 159 Goto zone button remains grayed after defining the first zone The function YEAROF in Wizcon language works according to date format Expansion the date entry fields in trigger date dialog Date text objects on Image disappear after image refreshing for any four digit date objects This occurs when one sets the date format to any type of 4 digits e g DDMMYYYY W7SPR110 Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 23 29 30 31 32 33 Certain operations cause all the WIL statements to be deleted W7SPR176 Problem with tolerance of 32 bit PLC tags when exported to a GLS file W7SPR165 DataBox in charts SCADA VIEW causes data request from remote station Working in Record Remote Data mode data from history is being handled locally but when the DataBox in a chart is open and the Show current values mode is off there is a data re
30. velopers to move easily from one application to another and to create new ones without the need to leave the Studio For further information see the Wizcon 7 User s Guide or Online Help Wizcon 7 Version 7 5 Release Notes 4 OPC Support Wizcon now supports both OPC client and server OLE for Process Control OPC is the industrial software standard designed to provide business applications with easy access to plant floor data OPC is designed around a client server model where the OPC Server provides an interface to the OPC objects and manages them The OPC Server is responsible for data collection from a physical device for asynchronous distribution or synchronous collection by various OPC clients The OPC Server also has the responsibility to update device data on behalf of OPC Clients when an OPC Client issues a write The OPC Client has the responsibility to request connections to the server for data items tags of interest on the OPC Server These connections can be temporary Read or Write a value once or continuous Update on data change The client needs only to utilize the appropriate server side interfaces to have complete functionality For further information about OPC and DCOM refer to the Wizcon 7 User s Guide For a list of available OPC servers refer to http www opcfoundation org OPC CATALOG opc_by_company asp and our Web site at http www pcsoftintl com for additional information Image button A
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