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Modified Date: 2023-11-06 - to add ability to alter the alarm visibility objects for Global Foundries Vermont
Creation Date: 2023-06-30
ConvertHelperToolbar was developed in iFIX 5.5 for the purpose of “fixing” DataLinks Text and Chart objects that get skewed and have gradient background after a FIX32 to iFIX migration.
The purpose of this toolbar is to provide the ability to search for objects of a certain class and change the fonts, and correct the backgrounds of datalinks so there is no gradient background as it appears after a FIX32 to iFIX migration.
The tbx may not open in iFIX versions prior to 5.5, or versions that do not have SP2 and the workspace SIM that I had installed.
WARNING! If you are not careful, this could mess up your pictures, so make sure you have a backup.
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If the tbx cannot be opened you can put this file in a folder and import them using VBA's project import feature.
There is only one function here called OpenGlobalPropertyChange, which prepopulates the fields in the form. You can customize this depending on what object classes you want to search and change properties.
frmAlarmVisibilityFixer.frm was added to modify visibility lookup animations
Iterates through all objects in the active picture
Looks for a lookup object that has a source with A_LLALM in the text
Looks to see if the object name has “VISIBLE“ in the name meaning it is a visibility animation
Removes all levels
Adds one level to be FALSE when “OK” (invisible) and TRUE for anything else (visible)
It does this by setting the DefaultOutputValue property of the animation object to “TRUE“
Hope this helps!
John Dunn
Manufacturing Consultant
AutomaTech, Inc.