Question: How can I execute the Windows calculator via scripts? Solution: There are two ways to do so: 1) By using Viewer’s ExecuteExternalApp method, which executes external software. For example:…
Question: How can I add a Driver to an XObject, and also allow access to its properties when the XObject is inserted in the project? Solution: To do so, you…
Question: How can I copy an E3Chart from a screen to a Report? Solution: To do so, you must use CopyConfig method in the Report’s scripts. For example: Sub OnBeforePrint…
Question: What is the meaning of the values of the tags’ Quality property? Solution: The quality value that is loaded/displayed in a tag follow the standards defined by OPC: For…
Question: What is the size limit of the DocString property’s content? Solution: This limit is of 1GB of characters or the free memory’s size (if it is smaller than 1GB).
Question: Why does the client Domain often disconnect from the server Domains? Solution: Probably, this happens because the client Domain’s version and build are different from the server Domains’ versions…
Question: How can I display an image of the Domain’s resources on a Figure object? Solution: To do so, just go to E3Studio and edit the Figure object’s Filename property,…
Question: How can I record alarms from my application on disk? Solution: On the Alarm Server, you can configure alarms to be saved in a Database. To do so, just…
Question: Why are some Internal Tags displayed with quality 0 and in red in WatchWindow? Solution: This occurs when the Internal Tags are linked to I/O Tags and the Driver…
Question: If I increase an application’s resolution, will the screen objects’ dimensions automatically increase too? Solution: No, they will not. So, you must manually increase the screen objects’ size too…