Write loaded application name to HMI tag

[dmroeder]

Feels like there must be some way.

I agree. We'll find it. I sent you a DM

 

[aawilliams85]

There is a registry key at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Rockwell Software\RSView Enterprise\3.0\Retentive\RDMCACHE that includes the most recently launched app name its value to handle the retentive tag data (ex: "\\Windows\\Logs\\<AppName>\\Retentive".

It still wouldn't be perfect, because it only gives the most recently launched (not loaded) app, but would be pretty close. Except I can't seem to read that key with the CIP message I was using to get the startup app. At least for the PanelView Plus 6 I am testing with, I came up with a total of 13 keys in the registry that are whitelisted to read - and that one's not in the list.

I'll stick with reading the startup app for now unless there's some other rock to look under.

 

[dmroeder]

I'll investigate more when I'm back in the office. I posted an example of how to read the startup project with a MSG instruction.

GitHub - dmroeder/panelview_running_file: An example of how to get the current running file name in a PanelView via MSG

An example of how to get the current running file name in a PanelView via MSG - dmroeder/panelview_running_file

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