Help with Customized Numeric Keypad in FactoryTalk Se

[MorphuisOGrady]

Hi there,

FactoryTalk SE experts can you help me with this one please.

The SE numeric keypad is horrible and not suited for my application so I made my own on a display.

The numeric keypad is basically just all the numbers on buttons. On each button press I use the Send Keys "x" command to write to the tag.

So when i load the display i pass a tag parameter PIN_NUMBER. On the display I have a numeric display connected to #1.

The problem is the data does not get written to tag PIN_NUMBER (DownloadALL command) unless I place a numeric input on display and click it before I start pressing the numbers. Then it will work.

Any ideas how to get around this, i.e bring the numeric input into focus upon loading of display?

 

[jkerekes]

I've made a SE numeric popup. I used VBA code to capture different passed parameters. One of tem being the tag I want it to write to.

 

[MorphuisOGrady]

Want to offer any assistance on how you did this?

 

[jkerekes]

From where I want the popup to appear, usually with touch animation: Display NumberPad /T#1,#2.CVOper,0,100,%,1

Then some of the VBA code in the NumberPad:

Set ParamList = Me.TagParameters
TopicName = ParamList.Item(1)
TagName = ParamList.Item(2)
TagMinValue = ParamList.Item(3)
TagMaxValue = ParamList.Item(4)
TagUnits = ParamList.Item(5)
DecimalPt = ParamList.Item(6)

Then create a taggroup to write to the tag:

Set TagGroup = CreateTagGroup(Me.AreaName, 1000)
TagGroup.Add "::[" & TopicName & "]" & TagName
TagGroup.Active = True
TagsOK = TagGroup.RefreshFromSource(TagsInError)
TextBox1.Value = TagGroup(1).Value

 

[rdrast]

See here:
http://www.rockwellsoftware.com/support/download/detail.cfm?ID=1593
or look up the "A1307 Utility" on the Rockwell site.