Running more than one instance of UniLogic at the same time

[max_145]

Hi Support team,

 

is there any workaround to open UniLogic more than one time on the same pc?

I have often the case where it would be helpful to open UniLogic a second time with a different project.

 

Thanks and BR

 

[Alexander]

Currently running more than one instance of UniLogic is not supported. Please know that this feature request has been passed to our development team.

[wapcs]

+1 for that... Would save time copy/pasting from one to another.. 

[J38]

Hello,

 

I'am also interested by the subject, do you know if there was modifications/new functionalities (for copy/paste between projects) since 9 months ?

 

 

Thank you very much,

 

Jérémy

[cbryan]

Very surprised this hasn't gotten more attention.  Unclear if I could have survived with only one instance of Visilogic and the more complex my programs become the more I desire two instances of Unilogic. I say this fully knowing how easy it is to migrate items from one program to the next, but some times you just want to do some side by side comparisons.  

So will any traction be gained in this arena?

[R Smith]

Absolutely!

I would love to reference and even drag and drop from another Unilogic's file.

This was the way I did all my programs in Proface GP-Pro, which allows 2 instances. Of course GP-Pro does not have a Library like Unilogic.

 

[Interroga]

a long time has passed, several versions have been released and nothing on the subject. It is sad not to pay attention to a subject with such relevance.

[Ausman]

I agree a long while has gone past with nothing apparently being done.  But as a Non-Unilogic user I don't know for sure....perhaps it has...I'm only going on what people say!

That said, I think a work-around would be a virtual PC running concurrently.  My virtual PCs are only XP and I don't think Unilogic would run on them, so I can't say for sure, but I reckon that a later Windoze version would work.  Perhaps cut and paste might even work.....but I doubt it.   Sometimes I have had actions possible b/n my virtual systems and the real one that I can't normally easily achieve .

On the "compare side by side" front, I often do this without another instance of Visilogic running, by simply doing a print to pdf, and then having that on screen next to what I'm actually working on.  The same would work on Unilogic.

cheers, Aus

[Ausman]

Further to my post above, I've just spend an entertaining hour trialling things on my virtual XP. 

Visilogic worked fine straight away.  I didn't really need it here, but thought I'd give it a go anyway.

I then trialled an early version of Unilogic,  _1_17_Build_73.  It wouldn't play ball as my XP was only a simple install to use something else, and I only had SP2 in place.  So for the experiment I loaded in SP3, and then the install was able to proceed.  I have ended up with a fully working Unilogic.

Admittedly this is an earlier version, but in theory later ones will work.  I only used the earlier one because it doesn't have the rego system on it, and I couldn't be bothered going through that process just for a trial of something.

So I now feel sure that this method would be a good way of getting at least another instance running alongside a native one.  I can't say for sure though, as I don't have a native version installed and am not doing that at present. 

Over to you lot to try it out! 

(I use VirtualBox by the way, as I've found it has worked fine for my needs......I actually activated XP rather than go through the other hoops....the only way I had available was the phone call method and it worked fine.)

cheers, Aus

[Swervomotor]

I run one on a laptop and one on my desktop, it doesn't let you copy/paste but allows you to do side by side comparisons, agree this would be a great feature to have with complex programs.

 

-Swervomotor

[pascal]

My IT  department installed me a local server on my BMS (Building Management System) where I installed the unilogic software.

Drag and drop does not work 😥, but copy paste does 🤩

[Flarc]

Hi everyone,

you can copy and paste with Unilogic (it's work with Visilogic too).
- Open the code you need to copy
- Copy
- Open the new code from Unilogics (not from explorer)
- Paste

But, you can't compare two code with two unilogics session open. Shame.

[Mark Vonckx]

Is the opening of 2 session at the same computer now already possible?

This issue was discussed starting in 2015, so 7 years later this should be solved, no?

This would be a good help.

[AlexUT]

UniLogic is not designed to open an additional sessions.

There is no change.

 

[curtharrington1]

 

 

On 6/28/2021 at 4:21 AM, Flarc said:

Hi everyone,

you can copy and paste with Unilogic (it's work with Visilogic too).
- Open the code you need to copy
- Copy
- Open the new code from Unilogics (not from explorer)
- Paste

But, you can't compare two code with two unilogics session open. Shame.

To build off of Flarc:

• Open the source code you want to reference
• rename the subroutine/function
• right click on the renamed subroutine/function and click "Add to Library"
• close the project without saving
• Open the desired project
• go to Library/Ladder/Functions
• find the renamed function and right click
• click on the module you want to drop the function into

Now you can compare the code from the old project and the new project.  Delete the renamed function when you're done and clean up and tags added when you imported it and you should be good to go

[Ausman]

curtharrington1,

I don't know what happens in Unilogic as I don't use it, but you have to be very careful doing this in Visilogic as such an action completely stomps  on any matching operands that are used in the destination file.  It would be useful to know if this caution is correct for Unilogic.

cheers, Aus

[curtharrington1]

On 12/16/2022 at 6:55 PM, Ausman said:

curtharrington1,

I don't know what happens in Unilogic as I don't use it, but you have to be very careful doing this in Visilogic as such an action completely stomps  on any matching operands that are used in the destination file.  It would be useful to know if this caution is correct for Unilogic.

cheers, Aus

Unlilogc is tag based unlike Visilogic which is address based.  Unilogic may rename imported tags with a "_1" postfix if the tag name already exists in the program.