Andrey Zhuk

CX-Supervisor improvement requests

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another suggestion: toggle button object does not have a lamp function. i use this object as a momentary button (toggle while pressed option selected) for turning off/on devices. pulse is sent to plc where the KEEP instruction turns on/off physical output. normally in NS panel i would use lamp function of the push button to see the state of physical output. in CX-S I can not do that. they should put this feature. or someone has an existing solution ? Edited by tashinz

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Perhaps you can use a blank toggle button which toggles the control bit momentary (toggle while pressed), and use "Colour change (Digital)" animation which refers to the boolean point of the physical output. Off coulour would be default button colour, ON colour any other. The user will see the button press animation when the button is pressed (it lowers), but only when the physical output turns ON the button lights up the set colour, so the user can monitor the ON time of the output.

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i tried that and only the text on the button is changed not the button color. let me check again. ... yes, there is no impact on the button color. cx-s programmers put this feature please! Edited by tashinz

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some find and replace feature should be put in immediately. feeling very useless while correcting hundreds of entries from find window. Edited by tashinz

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I feel your pain Be sure to give your mouse some time off before it gets a burn-out It helps to repeat the find function after a while, so it re-indexes the search with the changes you made which narrows down the result list. But no excuse for a modern software to NOT have a search/replace function...

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Hi Not started to use CXS ver.2 yet. But for ver.1.3x 1. Make an option so you can control where the Alarm pop screen appear on the "main" screen. (use full when working with dual monitor ) 2. Make an option for disable CXS to start 2 times at the same time. Banker

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they should implement some kind of object properties, like in cx-designer. so, e.g. one can change position, domensions, color, point assignment of the object etc. this could also allow group editing (again like in cx-designer). access to the object through workspace window is not sufficient. Edited by tashinz

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Good points there, but I don't think there will be functional updates for 1.3, if any... Let's hope they will be implemented in V2. Although I believe running 2 runtime instances isn't possible ? Or do you mean the developer ? I like that feature so you can easily compare 2 projects!

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I have an application with 5 cx-s 1.33 runtime instances on one computer. tried to avoid that but customer wanted it that way. anyway...it works perfectly and this apps are quite big i must say, works on ethernet. this shouldn't be disabled, both in runtime and developer. what's the use of it anyway?

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I would like to have a "Select all" command in the right mouse button menu, or CTRL+A to select all objects instead of opening the Alarm editor (does not comply with standard Windows commands). Now I have to go to the Edit menu everytime I want to select all objects.

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If I have the Project workspace window opened, and I select an object on the page it is highlighted in the workspace with a very light grey background, hardly visible: But when I select an object directly from the workspace by clicking the reference the selection color is much better. I would like to see both selections using the same background colour. (of course the last one ) Oh and anyone else having trouble quickly finding a command from the file menu ? Imo too many options, I suggest putting ALL project related commands back in the Project menu like before. Besides, the Recent Projects and Recent Pages function is very useful, but should be placed on top. Also more icons should help recognise commands. This is how I would like it. File menu: (Perhaps name it Page menu ?) Project menu:

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wanted to post the same as PdL in last two posts. you wouldn't believe it. Edited by tashinz

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LOL did you go to work this morning as well ? Now that would be creepy

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sure i went to work, but you're right Pim, very tired I am. was commissioning in Bosnia these days, heating plant. and since the heating season started today, everything was urgent of course. moving on to the next project allready. and so forth, till the day I retire in about 30 long years.

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There seems to be a problem in selecting objects within an object group using the workspace. Sometimes when I select a group to edit the individual objects belonging to that group, the workspace only shows the animations configured for this group, but not the underlying objects and their animations. When I close the workspace and open it again, and select the same group, all objects appear again under the group. Selecting group 32: After closing- and reopening the workspace:

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Regarding the point editor: I would like point groups to NOT automatically be deleted when all its points are deleted. I would like to be able to add, edit, and delete (with confirmation of course) point groups regardless of existing points or not in a group. As a workaround I use a dummy memory point and put the point view filter on I/O points to be able to remove all (visible) points without the group being removed, but now I am setting up a new project and only work with memory points... I would like to have a group name column when bulk editing points in Excel so I can paste points back at any location in the point editor. Then when a name doesn't exist CXS should give a message the group name doesn't exist, with a choice to add the points in a new group or to cancel pasting points. When pasting points with duplicate point names I would like to have the choice to replace, cancel or rename the points just like CX-Programmer. As an alternative to bulk editing in Excel a find and replace function for point names The same options I would like to have for the alarm editor. That's all I am not too demanding right ?

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Never noticed it with V1.3, but I guess its not a new thing. When you change the properties of the Edit Point Value (Analogue) or the Edit Point Value (Text) animation such as point name, caption text or minimum/maximum values and after this check any of the options "Echo Off", "Display Numeric Keypad", "In Place Edit", the stored values for these properties are loaded again. Strangely enough it does not go for the Edit Point Value (Digital) animation or any of the Display Value animations.

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When opening a CXS project in V2.0 by opening the *.SCS file from Windows explorer (double clicking), a message pops up telling the installation is not licensed. This only happens when opening a project this way. For the rest the developer opens the project normally and it doesn't seem to affect anything...

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There seems to be a bug in the script mode radio buttons in the script editor as described in this topic.

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Hm... this happen to me a few times. but I realized why. since we bought cx-s 2.0 upgrade and I installed that on Vista machine without prior installing cx-s 1.3, that message kept appearing. after I install first cx-s 1.3 and then cx-s 2.0 never saw this message again, both clicking on the .scs in explorer or by open project. Edited by tashinz

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The display page / close page dialog window needs to be sizeable or the window needs to be made wider. When using long duplicate page names with different numbers at the end, these numbers are not visible. Now I have to count rows.

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IF you open the same instance 2 times at the same time. I can happen that the CMD files can be damaged And you are not able to open the project again before replacing the CMD files. It has happened for me a couple of time. I also thing it shall only be an option you can select / deselect Banker

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it would be great if the vertical axis limits in Data Log can be specified indirectly. there is often the case that customer needs to rescale y-axis.

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Don't forget the designer can specify different maximums for each trace and the customer can override from View menu->Scale Settings. These are always enough for me! I'd like to see some extentions to the Application Analysis though to detect more dodgy programs Bertie

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