Hi David, I connect OM variables to CP blocks and then historize & display the CP value instead of the OM variable value. One advantage is that when the AW goes down and the OM variables disappear, the FoxView screen doesn't smurf. Steve Murray Asarco -----Original Message----- From: David Johnson [mailto:davidrjohnson@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:36 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Reading an object manager object in Foxview. OK, I know I'm asking a ton of questions lately, lots of unusual things to do with alarms, and I'm having to convert from Unix to Windows thinking. We have written a windows based functional equivalent of fh_sacego. It works with AIM* ODBC. I'll get it posted to the cassandra website soon. (Don't forget to send Jeremy $$$, I would pony up but you vampires [or is it werewolves] are sucking up our bandwidth, so..ok put me down for 10 bucks, but that's it.) Now I want to display an item on a foxview display based on an om variable. We used omcrt to make a boolean variable called awname_HB - where awname is different for each aw. We are toggling this once every so many seconds omget[imp] has not difficulty reading the value. Now I want to display the heartbeats on a Foxview display, but it doesn't conform to the C:B.P format that Foxview seems to expect. Any ideas? Thanks, David * This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are the property of ASARCO LLC and/or its affiliates, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not a named recipient or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination forwarding, printing or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received, and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by ASARCO LLC and/or its affiliates for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.marshal.com * _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave