bulletin blues
Lifetime Supporting Member
I really like the RS5000 software, but I got a couple of gripes with the user interface.
I wish the tag explorer had an "always on top" option.
I wish there was the ability to "close all but this tab" option for when I end up with 15 routines open in the ladder window.
Bookmarks are nice (I think they are included in version 16 and above only) but I wish I could save them, like trends.
When I'm in the tag explorer and I right click a tag and select "find all" the software grinds through all the tags and then says "found 1 tag," well, yea, thats the tag I JUST RIGHT CLICKED ON. I know, I know, use the cross reference option, but every 3 months or so I accidently click the find all. Is that option really necessary in that window. Maybe some people use it all the time. I'm not a POWER USER, but will it ever find more than one of the same tag (like if the tag is only local to the routine)? I generally keep the stuff in the controller scope. Maybe that's why this find all option confuses me?
Speaking of find all, I wish there was an option (in the options settings) to allow the "search" toolbar to search the entire program for a tag, rather than just the open routine. Kind of like the cross reference but without having to cross reference the tag. Like the LOGIX 5/500, ugh, I went there...
How about a "hide" option for the docked (on the side) toolbars like adobe or visual studio maybe? How about that "hide" option automatically moves the ladder window over to fill the screen?
I really dig this software, and these are minor issues, but I guess that is what minor revisions are for, right?
So go ahead and bash me, agree with me, advise me, or ignore me.
SAFETY PAYS!
I wish the tag explorer had an "always on top" option.
I wish there was the ability to "close all but this tab" option for when I end up with 15 routines open in the ladder window.
Bookmarks are nice (I think they are included in version 16 and above only) but I wish I could save them, like trends.
When I'm in the tag explorer and I right click a tag and select "find all" the software grinds through all the tags and then says "found 1 tag," well, yea, thats the tag I JUST RIGHT CLICKED ON. I know, I know, use the cross reference option, but every 3 months or so I accidently click the find all. Is that option really necessary in that window. Maybe some people use it all the time. I'm not a POWER USER, but will it ever find more than one of the same tag (like if the tag is only local to the routine)? I generally keep the stuff in the controller scope. Maybe that's why this find all option confuses me?
Speaking of find all, I wish there was an option (in the options settings) to allow the "search" toolbar to search the entire program for a tag, rather than just the open routine. Kind of like the cross reference but without having to cross reference the tag. Like the LOGIX 5/500, ugh, I went there...
How about a "hide" option for the docked (on the side) toolbars like adobe or visual studio maybe? How about that "hide" option automatically moves the ladder window over to fill the screen?
I really dig this software, and these are minor issues, but I guess that is what minor revisions are for, right?
So go ahead and bash me, agree with me, advise me, or ignore me.
SAFETY PAYS!