RWD Controls

Likewise, I've only been able to do this with FactoryTalk View Studio for a PC running FactoryTalk ME Station, not PanelView, and only with Cognex In-Sight.  But here is how.  First, install the same version of InSight Explorer that you are running on your FT View Studio computer onto the PC running FT ME Station - this will include the ActiveX files required for that PC.  Now open your HMI program in Studio, go to the Objects menu -> ActiveX Control and position the object on your screen.  Once you do that, a dialogue box titled "Insert an ActiveX Control" pops up, then select Cognex In-Sight Display Control and hit OK.  Now the Properties box of the object will pop up, or just double click on the object.  Go to the Connections tab.  For the Enabled field add a boolean tag (I used a bit that is always on).  For the AutoConnectString type "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,admin," including the quotation marks and both commas where xxx is the camera's IP address.  For the AutoReconnect field add a Boolean tag (I used a bit that is always on).  For the ImageScale field, enter a numerical constant to adjust the scale of the image so it fits in the region of the object you created.  For the ShowGraphics field, you can enter a Boolean tag and when you toggle that tag it will alternate between showing the InSight Tools overlayed on the camera image, or just the camera image.  For the ShowImage field enter a Boolean tag that you can toggle if you want to show the image or just a gray region.  There are more properties to play with, but that should get you started.  Also one other note - if you have your ME Station program open to the screen with this display and you also have In-Sight Explorer connected to the camera, the two will not play nicely and typically only one will work at a time.

It took me a long time to figure this simple setting out, and it had frustrated me to no end, so I figure I'll share it and save somebody else the pain.  In GX Works2 whenever I would select a contact or coil and try to edit it, it would instead insert a new coil/contact/line adjacent to the original one I wanted to replace and at the same time add a new row or column to accommodate it.  This meant that any time I wanted to edit a rung with multiple branches I would generally have to re-create the entire rung and all the branches.  I found that pressing ctrl+insert on my keyboard switched me from this mode to a mode where I could instead just edit an existing coil/contact/line in its original location.  Pressing ctrl+insert again would again switch me back to the other insert-type editing.