Re: [foxboro] VB script on v.8.x I/A

Hi Tim,

For your quick & dirty version, any particular reason not to just have
your VB script use omgetimp and omsetimp?

Cheers,

Kevin

On 11/8/08, Lowell, Timothy <TLowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For an advanced control project we're doing, we're looking to write a VB
>  application to calculate an inferred property and then somehow stuff the
>  result into an object manager object so that we can display and trend it
>  on the Foxview screen.  We're aware that Aspentech DMCplus and AspenIQ
>  (and OSI PI and others) have sophisticated calculation engines that can
>  be used to do these calculations, and we'll probably end up going that
>  way eventually, but in the near-term we just want to build a fairly
>  involved but still relatively quick and dirty calculation just to do
>  some preliminary evaluation.  Has anybody done this on a Windows-only
>  I/A System?  Or is HLBL the way to go?  The third-party we are working
>  with prefers to use VB, but I suppose I could try to convert it to HLBL
>  if I had to.  If anybody has used VB on I/A, I'd like to know generally
>  what you did and how you were able to get the OM values for the inputs
>  and send the outputs back to the OM.  It would save me the trouble of
>  recoding somebody else's code.
>
>
>  Thanks,
>
>
>
>  Tim Lowell
>
>  Control Systems Engineer
>
>  Tesoro Petroleum Company
>
>  210-283-2929 (w)
>
>  210-253-0225 (c)
>
>  tlowell@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
>
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