[armchairpilot]

Hi,
I am doing a project using CX Supervisor. I'm doing mostly data collection and monitoring of machines. I'm trying to add a marquee to inform plant operators when machines are in alarm and display the problem with the machine on the marquee. The marquee is made by EZ Automation and it is a 2 line, 3 color display. It has Ethernet and serial communications built-in. I can send ascii messages to the marquee serially from the plc, but would like to send via Ethernet from CX Supervisor. I've been told that I can use Active X to generate messages to send to the display, but haven't been able to find any examples as of yet. Right now I'm using the EZ Marquee software provided by EZ Automation to send messages manually. Basically it is an ascii string generator that turns text into a string that the marquee will understand. It then sends it to the IP address you want and displays that message until a new message is sent. Has anyone done this before? Does anyone have any ideas how to use the Activce X controls to perform a task like this? Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks

[Berti Baker]

The EZ Marque ActiveX control most probably has a text property or method to set the text. For example ".Value" or ".Text". After adding the control to the page it is probably as simple as writing some VB code for example: Marque1.Text = "Hello world"
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[Cincy]

Hello, Armchairpilot.,
I also have an EZ Marquee and am trying to do exactly what you described and having problems. Did you ever find a solution?

armchairpilot, on 20 July 2010 - 07:26 PM, said:

Hi,
I am doing a project using CX Supervisor. I'm doing mostly data collection and monitoring of machines. I'm trying to add a marquee to inform plant operators when machines are in alarm and display the problem with the machine on the marquee. The marquee is made by EZ Automation and it is a 2 line, 3 color display. It has Ethernet and serial communications built-in. I can send ascii messages to the marquee serially from the plc, but would like to send via Ethernet from CX Supervisor. I've been told that I can use Active X to generate messages to send to the display, but haven't been able to find any examples as of yet. Right now I'm using the EZ Marquee software provided by EZ Automation to send messages manually. Basically it is an ascii string generator that turns text into a string that the marquee will understand. It then sends it to the IP address you want and displays that message until a new message is sent. Has anyone done this before? Does anyone have any ideas how to use the Activce X controls to perform a task like this? Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks

[Berti Baker]

Hi Cincy,

Perhaps you can answer for armchairpilot - does this ActiveX control have a .Value or .Text property? How to their examples show this being set?

Regards,
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