Re: [foxboro] pulling info from display manager file
- From: "Boulay, Russ" <Russ.Boulay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:28:30 -0500
Do the g or dump from foxdraw tools menu
Sent from my iPhone
> On Feb 20, 2015, at 1:24 PM, David Church <dchurch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> What's the command to convert to a .g file? I'm only familiar with the
> d_edit -dump (filename) and d_edit -uploade (filename)
>
> I tried these and all I can see are the tagnames which isn't too useful
> because it's just c:mcin.pakcin
>
> David Church
> www.cosmospecialtyfibers.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Kubbenga, Otto
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 11:37 AM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] pulling info from display manager file
>
> Hi,
> As one of the initial Foxdraw/FoxView designers I will disappoint you.
> While the DM pdf where record based displays which included continue after
> continue records. There is No limitation for configuration data.
> The SL (company of the Middleware display software), has designed its m1 file
> (= fdf file) and the FoxDraw/SL API by using a max size on the dynamic
> properties. I don't remember what the max size is (3000 bytes in that order),
> but that might be changed after 20 years. Anyhow, there is a limit and it
> sounds like that with a lockup of 90 bitmap states you hit the limit. If this
> is the case, then you might can work around it by using multiple objects.
> But, if I were you, submit a CAR and send your DM display to foxboro.
> Good luck.
> Otto Kubbenga
> Schneider-Electric
> The Netherlands
>
> Ps. use d_edit50 tool on the DM file to show configuration. Convert FoxView
> display to .g. This is ASCII file which you can print or using notepad to
> look at.
>
> Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone
>
>> Op 20 feb. 2015 om 16:32 heeft David Church
>> <dchurch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> het volgende geschreven:
>>
>> We moved half our system to Foxdraw from Display Manager a few years ago,
>> but one of our displays didn't convert correctly. The object that doesn't
>> work displays a message from a PLC using the bitmap/bitmask function.
>> The original object had 90+ discreet messages in it but the converted
>> display only pulled the first 50 or so. Since I don't have a record or what
>> the messages were supposed to say, I'm wondering if there is a utility to
>> view these. I would really like to not have to transcribe 300 messages by
>> hand.
>>
>> I have played around with the masks using a test display and
>> importing/exporting them as .g files and I notice that Foxdraw quits letting
>> me select the tagname for messages larger than 75 values. Is this a limit
>> with Foxdraw?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David Church
>> Cosmo Specialty Fibers
>>
>>
>>
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