Creating a C# script within the AKI HMI Panel

Creating a C# script within the AKI HMI Panel

You can create a script that runs a C# program in the background of the HMI screen.  A script in the Tag screen will run in the background all of the time.  A script in one of the HMI screens will run in the background only when that screen is active.

In this example, we need a script that will set MT_NUM = 21 and MT_LOAD = 1 when the Run screen is opened.  And we need a pause between these two commands to allow the AKD drive time to process the Modbus commands.

 

To create this script, follow these steps:

1. Open the script tab of the Run screen.

2. Expand “Run” (the name of the screen), and double-click on “Opened”.  This will create a script that will execute when this screen is opened.

3. Type (or paste) the following into the line inside the curly brackets of the “void Run_Opened” script:

Globals.Tags.MT_NUM.Value = 21;

Thread.Sleep(100);

Globals.Tags.MT_LOAD.Value = 1;

4. In order to use the Thread.Sleep command, you must also type “using System.Threading;” in the top section of the script.

 

This is what the script should look like:

namespace Neo.ApplicationFramework.Generated

{

    using System.Windows.Forms;

    using System;

    using System.Drawing;

    using Neo.ApplicationFramework.Tools;

    using Neo.ApplicationFramework.Common.Graphics.Logic;

    using Neo.ApplicationFramework.Controls;

    using Neo.ApplicationFramework.Interfaces;

    using System.Threading;

   

    public partial class Run

    {

                              void Run_Opened(System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e)

                              {

                                             Globals.Tags.MT_NUM.Value = 21;

                                             Thread.Sleep(100);

                                             Globals.Tags.MT_LOAD.Value = 1;

                              }

    }

}

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