Jimmah (Customer) asked a question.
CMORE EA9-T10WCL panel Indicator Pushbutton Object Behavior During Simulation
I am working with a CMORE EA9-T10WCL panel. On a screen, I have both regular pushbutton and indicator pushbutton objects. When I run the simulator, the indicator pushbuttons do not change to a pressed-appearance when I click on them (whereas the regular pushbutton objects do). Is this behavior correct?
Are you saying that the button does not change between the defined ON and OFF appearance. Make sure that the push button tag and the indicator tag have been assigned. The appearance transition only follows the indicator tag.
I have defined both the pushbutton control and indication tags. When I click on the PB during simulation, it does not show depressed like a non-indicating pushbutton does. If I turn on the indication tag, the button animates as though it is depressed.
Then it is working exactly as intended.The pressing of the button affects only the pushbutton control tag. The appearance of the button is affected only by the state of the indicator tag. If you want the appearance to change just by pressing the button use a standard pushbutton.
Hi @Jimmah
As @bcarlton mentioned the indicator pushbuttons have separate tags for indication and pushbutton.
Push Button Tag Name:
Indicator Light Tag Name:
When using the simulator you must manually turn on the indicator light tag. You will see the push button tag name activate only when monitoring the addresses. Not on the actual panel in the simulator.
This is normal behavior.
Here are a couple of posts that may help you out.
https://accautomation.ca/c-more-ea9-hmi-series-panel-simulate-project/
https://accautomation.ca/c-more-ea9-hmi-series-panel-object-list-buttons/
Regards,
Garry
https://accautomation.ca/series/c-more-hmi-series-panel/
Just guessing but this may be a way to get something like what you are looking for. Create an indicator and attach it to a tag. ON TOP of it create your indicator pushbutton. Size the pushbutton slightly smaller than the light. Make the pushbutton momentary ON. Attach the pushbutton control tag to the same one as the indicator. Set the indicator pushbutton's indicator tag to a second tag. Save and simulate that. Repeat until it looks ok. To keep them in this orientation select them both by clicking and dragging around then select 'group'. You can even save this to the library if you think you will use it often.
In the simulator, you press the indicator button. The tag for the button should go to ON. Then manually select the indicator tag and force this to ON. The simulated button will now appear ON. Do this in reverse for turning OFF.
I assume in the PLC program that the button tag turns ON an output or internal bit and the indicator is when that output or bit is actually ON.