suggestions for enhancements to webcontrol (not 32)

[apostolakisl]

Those can all be done in the GUI java code.  This warning message will also show to the developer, since both end user and developer PLC code has PROTECT inside.

 
Does this mean you are developing a Java GUI?

 

[CAI_Support]

GUI code has both html and java.  I think adding a warning message can be done in Java portion html code.
az1324 probably could make that change in 10 minutes.

 

[az1324]

Does this mean you are developing a Java GUI?

 
He means javascript

 

[az1324]

az1324 probably could make that change in 10 minutes.

 
True.  If I was multitasking. 

 

[apostolakisl]

He means javascript

 
OK, that makes more sense.

 

[bgriffith]

It would be handy to have the choice to display VARs as either decimal or hex in the GUI and in emails.  Being able to choose individually which ones are displayed in hex would be nice, but even choosing all vs. none could be useful.
 
-Ben

 

[CAI_Support]

It would be handy to have the choice to display VARs as either decimal or hex in the GUI and in emails.  Being able to choose individually which ones are displayed in hex would be nice, but even choosing all vs. none could be useful.
 
-Ben

In email configuration, there is already an option to display all, or display partial, or display none.  Would that is something you are looking for?

 

[bgriffith]

Is there an option to have them displayed in hex format instead of decimal?  That was what I was suggesting. 

 

[CAI_Support]

There is no format change in the email. Internally, it is stored in same space, however, if user want to change format, we can either make that permanent to hex or permanent to decimal. Allowing configuration will require additional RAM, that is very limited and we reluctant to use RAM for that.  There are other features we want to consider all requiring RAM, and there is almost none left.

 

[bgriffith]

I'd be more interested in having it in the GUI than the email, but either way it's easy to bring up a calculator app to do the conversion on the one VAR that I use for flags.  I do understand that space is tight.

 

[CAI_Support]

Because hex can not display signed int correctly,  once convert to hex, negative number may not mean what displayed in hex.  I understand you want to display 24 bit number, which does not involve negative sign.

 

[TJF1960]

Do you have a spec sheet including dimensions and / or operations manual for the WebControl32 available?
 
Thanks,
Tim

 

[CAI_Support]

HI Tim,
 
WC32 is same size board as WC8 and a lot more compact.  Since this thread is for WC8, I am not posting the hardware spec here.  If you send us an email, we can send you a copy of the hardware spec.

 

[TJF1960]

Oops, sorry. I saw webcontrol and 32 (didn't see "not 32").

 

[rossw]

SPI interface. It would be nice if you could (perhaps) define out 7 and out 8 as clock and output, and one of the TTL inputs as the serial input pin, and implement some sort of SPI send and receive.
 
I've got some SPI devices I want to communicate with, I'm going to try bitbashing comms - does anyone know what the *MINIMUM* clock speed for SPI is??
 
Also, is there (I can't see one) an easy way to interface the WC8 with I2C bus devices??
 
Edit: perhaps the WC32 has provided for SPI/I2C ??? If so, details please!!