adccommunitymod (AutomationDirect) asked a question.

Lookout and Cmore

Created Date: December 27,2011

Created By: Butch

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I have a PLC application that is currently interfaced to Lookout, and it has many radio buttons. The Radio buttons in Lookout are tied to V-memory addresses in the PLC and changes work both ways, with Lookout changing the V-memory and V-memory changes updating the radio buttons in Lookout. I want to add a Cmore screen to mimic the Lookout functionality however the radio buttons do not work the same way. In Lookout the radio buttons have a value of 1,2.3.4.5, etc. and in Cmore they are 1,2,4,8,16, etc. All the PLC code is written to work with the Lookout radio buttons and I would hate to have to add registers for the Cmore and then try to sync them all. Does anyone have a simple work around for these incompatible radio buttons? Thanks, Butch


  • adccommunitymod (AutomationDirect)

    Created Date: December 28,2011

    Created by: HMI Eng

    There is another option in C-more other than using a word tag, you can use Discrete tags for each button. Either way you will have to write some code in your PLC but at least this one is simpler.

  • adccommunitymod (AutomationDirect)

    Created Date: December 27,2011

    Created by: Butch

    I have a PLC application that is currently interfaced to Lookout, and it has many radio buttons. The Radio buttons in Lookout are tied to V-memory addresses in the PLC and changes work both ways, with Lookout changing the V-memory and V-memory changes updating the radio buttons in Lookout.

    I want to add a Cmore screen to mimic the Lookout functionality however the radio buttons do not work the same way. In Lookout the radio buttons have a value of 1,2.3.4.5, etc. and in Cmore they are 1,2,4,8,16, etc.

    All the PLC code is written to work with the Lookout radio buttons and I would hate to have to add registers for the Cmore and then try to sync them all. Does anyone have a simple work around for these incompatible radio buttons?

    Thanks,

    Butch

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