Berti Baker

Hi, Bit late too the party, but just to add...  The WebBrowser compenent can be easy way for PDF viewing for many, but like you say is just a web browser and no real control or security.  If you're down the KIOSK mode route then you want it more controllable. In the past I know I used a free PDF Viewer ActiveX control and placed on the page.  Through properties you could set the file, launch at specific page and control the menu available - exacatly all the control you need.  I can't find any trace of the name now but this could be a good route to investigate the options available these days. Regards, BB.

Hiya. First,  when I've seen something like this it is when a small picture is placed over the button and the picture receives the presses instead of the button - if you click the corner it works OK .  For those in this situation the solution is easy - if you make the picture 'unclickable' the presses will pass through to the button underneath.  Just add an "Enable" animation to the picture with Expression: FALSE so that it is never enabled  Second thought though about if this is touch screen or driver etc, could be good test to display $MouseX and $MouseY on screen these are updated every click so you can see if CX-supervisor is actually getting all those clicks. Regards, BB

Hi Peter, CXSUPERVISORRES. DLL is the system language resources for the Runtime program.  It must be installed as part of the installation so I'm not sure why you would get this error but is not project related.  You can try any of the demo projects to confirm that. - Can you find this file in your installed folder (default <Program Files>\Omron\CX-Supervisor) alongside the SCS.EXE? - Try launching the runtime different ways - from Start->CX-Supervisor Runtime, double clicking on .SR2/.SR3 file or from Developer if possible.  Are you trying to do anything strange like install to a network drive / moved the SCS.EXE file / run through Remote Desktop etc? - These days "Run As Administrator" always seems like a good thing to try !! If all else fails, then uninstall and reinstall should find this file properly installed Best Regards, BB.

Hi, Best ignore the theoretical bandwidth of USB-2 (who said it was 2 anyway?). Certainly I remember many early Omron USB ports were just using USB to Serial chipset running at 114Kb. You still see this with the CP1W-CIF41 Ethernet plug-in - still connected to a serial port ! Next thing is that theoretical bandwidth assumes you can process and pump out the messages quickly. For ALL PLCs this is a secondary task so latency means you never get near that.  Yes, with Ethernet you will easily achieve good performance. Appendix B shows you can expect over 1500 reads a second over Ethernet.  I realise time and cost are your factors here so your choice, but I would just knuckle down and reorganise the program memory and then recreate the CXS points and will still achieve this.  Like I said already once this week, FINS memory management is tedious to thanks for EIP tag addressing these days! Rgds BB

Then again, if you’re connecting to NX then better to create as ‘SYSMAC Device” and use SYSMAC Gateway for communications. Reading by Tag name means you don’t even need to modify or rebuild CX-Supervisor when you change variable locations, plus you don’t have to manually manage the FINS addresses to make sure they don’t overlap !! (Big bugbear!) Rgds, BB

Hi,   Not much diagnostic information here. What version are you running? I suggest you register and upgrade to the latest available.    Have a look in the CX-Supervisor Error Log for any clues. Perhaps the values are zero just because the device is disconnected? Regards BB

Hi Geir,   This optimisation is particularly advised for serial connections, and FINS connection, but not so critical in Ethernet and EIP protocol.    Anyway there is no such limitations with the Educational version so this is not the reason.  Testword & 0x30 should work fine e.g. when the value = 48 Have you used Point Maintenance to check its value when it is not working? This should be the normal solution  Regards BB

Hi All, Just to update, from V3.5 Release Notes: So should be all fixed now. Regards, BB

Hi, Here's a suggestion for the logic to use  Add 5 (half of 10) to make the result to round up or round down Divide by 10 Convert to INT type to truncate. Multiply by 10 So 32 would become (INT((32+5)/10)) * 10 = 30 or 37 would become 40. Sorted? Regards, BB    

Ha ha.  Yes problem of mixing software providers that don't understand proprietary data types. Your 3 options: 1) Use CX-Supervisor (or other Omron software like CX-Server OPC or CX-Server Lite) to correctly read the BCD format 2) Edit the PLC program, and convert all PLC variables to standard Integers 3) If its possible... Read as hex and then write conversion routines in Indusoft script that run every time a new value is read (yuck!) BB

Hi Milosh, If you're using V3.4 then upgrade to v3.5 as Readme lists bug fixes with animations and hanging. If you're running v3.5 and this sounds like a bug then worth raising with Omron direct on myOMRON. They are still actively fixing these things. Regards BB

Hi, Yes (depending on PLC type).  If I remember then RUN on the old C series meant the program ran, but refused read and write communications requests - pretty critical for a SCADA app!  (in fact didn't the CS have it on physical font panel 'key' operation?). Anyway that's why CX-Supervisor assumes you really want this changed to Monitor mode.  You can use CX-Programmer to change the default PLC startup mode. This is the background but maybe for newer PLCs this behaviour has evolved Regards, BB

Hi Milosh, This used to work but is new and I got the same here.  Am told it is a bug and will be fixed in 3.51 version BB

Funny, I never found any problem with resize feature, and use it extensively exactly for this reason. If you set the "Screen Size" to the expected Runtime size, then the runtime appears best (sharper/less scaling blur). Also as Runtime IPCs are usually lower res, it means in development most of the screen still fits on the (larger) dev monitor which is handy. But you could still set the "Screen Size" to dev resolution - either way when maximised that entered size will be scaled to the actual screen size. Milos: I'd love to comment if you have any screen shots on the settings and effect? If you can get it working it could save you ages editing many pages !! BB

Hi, I agree, SQL Server Find should be quick with say less than 2 million records, and for a large database solution always work having a professional data expert design the tables and keys. Just to add CX-Supervisor DOES allow direct SQL text to be used if required. To do this programmatically look at the DBExecute with command parameter "SQL" (example in the installed Database Demo). Regards, BB