Cara Bereck Levy

I don't have an exact answer - project complexity varies. If your projects are working well, you've probably done ok without it up until now. This was added to help with mega-projects--what people do with the HMI is really amazing. I it is probably a good idea to run Fix when finalizing. Hey, even though my work is supposedly all safe in the Cloud...I still have backups...just in case 🙂

No--but with any software, there is always work behind the scenes to improve performance 🙂

oops...Sorry. Here in Uni-Land, things sometimes get lost translation (and I do mean translation; our development team is a multilingual crew 😊) The right term is 'relocate images'. 'Fix' is a process that rearranges the images allocation in memory for better performance.

OK--I'm in trouble...now I can't get "Also sprach Zarathustra" (2001: A Space Odyssey Theme song ) out of my head, brass, tympani....😆 Pressing "fix project": restores system images. removes "deleted" images.

Thanks 🙂 I have submitted these, and will update regarding the outcome (no timeline, sorry!)

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Good morning to you 🙂 When you download/update UniLogic, UniPics is installed as well, along with any updates.

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And oops!! I deleted the post @Flex727responded to, while trying to edit it. So, the original post asked if people here read science fiction, and if anyone knew the story The Machine Stops, by E.M. Forster, a story written before the Golden Age of SF. As I posted above, the story can be found here: https://www.classicly.com/bibi/pre.html?book=732.epub/ I first encountered it in an anthology.

or here for free! https://www.classicly.com/bibi/pre.html?book=732.epub

OK--after the VisiLogic R&D people looked into this a bit deeper--it seems that the potential pitfalls are greater than we thought at first glance. What they are proposing is to create a CSV with before and after addresses. I know it isn't the solution you requested...but it is helpful, isn't it?

@Flex727, yes anything after OS 4.010.34 up to but NOT including OS 4.10.46. BTW--I need to mention that, for a variety of reasons, we run internal builds, that are not actually released with an Official VisiLogic Version. Apparently, OS 4.010.34 was an internal build--and your VisiLogic version 9.8.94 was released with OS 4.010.36 (which does have the bug) Live Update from the Web will download the fixed OS 4.10.46.

@Javier Galaz, I also want to thank you for your effort in getting answers. It is so much easier to give support when posters are so clear regarding their method and goals!

@Ausmanand @Joe Tauser, I apparently missed this request way back in 2016 😖. Apologies...🙏 However, it was recently referenced in another thread. It should be doable--I need to give a definition to the team. Are there any points you (or anyone else) would like to clarify/add to the feature request? O)h--and you are definitely referring to VisiLogic, yes?

Hi people--good news. Our team tracked down thisV700 Modbus TCP issue bug, which is indeed related to the OS version released in mid-December 2021, 4.010.34 . We have now released a fix, included in OS 4.10.46. You can run Live Update from the Web via Help> Live Update>Operating System in order to download this fixed OS version. I would like to thank all who participated in this thread - especially our fabulous moderators for giving me a heads-up, enabling us to stomp this bug!

@Joe Tauser, please let me know what you find! There seem to be a few issues here. I am tracking this thread, and am drawing it to the attention of the relevant people--but please allow me to say that this is an example of the Unitronics Forum Community at work! Kudos to all participants 🙂

@YINGD, Thanks for the suggestion and @Flex727, thanks for pinging me. Sometimes I really enjoy playing Forum Goddess 🤪 Here it is: https://forum.unitronics.com/forum/90-everything-hmi/ @YINGDyour Graphics library idea is excellent, but would take some doing--I have submitted it for consideration.

One of our community members, @YINGD suggested that we open up a forum section dedicated to HMI Design, and our long-time MVP @Flex727seconded the suggestion --so we did! Here is the main section, with sections for UniLogic and VisiLogic: https://forum.unitronics.com/forum/90-everything-hmi/ I hope that this will prove helpful to our community--thanks for the suggestion!

Hi--I did see this previously, but forgot to tell you guys that I reported the bugs. Thanks for the heads-up 🙂

No, @Flex727(sorry for the late reply0

@Ausman, Thanks for pinging me directly--will look into this right now 🙂

@Flex727, thanks for pinging me! @Kpotmake--apologies. I see that there is in fact no documentation for Draw Shapes, and I will include this in a future release--thank you for drawing my attention to this. For now, I can answer some of your questions: >-What is the maximum amount of shapes per group before I receive the error message from the insert shape function block 'maximum shapes reached' (error -8)?> You can include a total of 4 groups with 128 shapes in each one . >-When is the shape inserted in the group? On the rising edge of the input or does it keep adding shapes as long as the input is high? Same question for draw shape group function block When the Ladder Element 'Insert shape' is called and status =0 -What is the maximum thickness for a line / rectangle before I receive the error message -2? Edit: seems to be 10 Correct--10 -Is it possible to create a solid circle / rectangle instead of just the border lines? Edit: since I haven't received any replies I made a loop that creates an increasingly smaller triangle / circle to fill the shape No, it is not possible -Are the available colors defined somewhere? Edit: the color codes seem to be HTML color codes (https://htmlcolorcodes.com/) Yes, they are: HEX color code (https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_hexadecimal.asp) Hope this helps!

Right up there with 'it works'...you must be doing something wrong..'