HMI update 08/12/2026

• Added “GetTickCount” and “GetTickCount64” support to scripting.

• Added support for Server Name Indication (SNI) to the MQTT V5 communication port.

• Corrected an issue with MQTT V5 message parsing.

• Created a simple MQTT V5 example project and it is posted on the website. Publishes/subscribes to 4 items. Uses a free, online, MQTT web broker.

• Corrected an issue with drag and drop graphic files in the graphics editor. Issue was introduced via a recent change.

• Added a vertical splitter control to the mouse animations command window and the website video group configuration window.

• Corrected an issue with the “Analog grid” and leading characters.

• User manual updates and additions.

• Corrected an issue with website “Image list” animation.

• Several improvements to how camera images are handled at runtime, for standard and website usage.

• Added a method to anchor the, optional, button bars to the website trend graphic element. Floating button bar support was not altered.

• Added a new feature to the website. A built-in web page that can be assessed from a browser, which allows using a web camera (phone, tablet, USB, camera, etc.) to take a picture, optionally rotate it and transfer the picture back to the hosting HMI.

• Added optional, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) support to the website.

HMI update 06/05/2026

Added script functions to read and write operating system environment variables.

HMI update 05/11/2026

Corrected an issue with RTSP using too many GDI resources.

New graphic editor feature:

HMI update 04/07/2026

• Removed event logging for file renames in video looper logic.

• Corrected an issue when a video looper file was active and a midnight day change occurred.

HMI update 04/04/2026

• Updates to the RTSP video handling and loop recording.

• Added a “TakeVideoSnapshot script command. The video graphic element has had this ability, via a user mouse click, for years. This script command was added so if motion detection was enabled, a snapshot could be captured from a script, if needed, along with the loop recording or from another input.

• User manual updates.

HMI update 03/12/2026

• Added two script functions to convert Julian day to month and day and year/month/day to Julian day.

• Added drag and drop TIFF (.tif,.tiff) image files to the graphic editor.

• Added access to Tesseract OCR engine properties.

• Added rotation option to images before scanning in OCR engine.

• Improvements to OCR testing window at design time.

• Added a script command to capture an image from a USB/built in camera. The image can also be custom rotated by the user.

• Added script function to rotate an image file.

HMI update 02/03/2026

• Added “Blend” animation to dynamic grid cells.

• Improvements to configuration editors.

• Corrected issue with “Drop list” resizing at design time.

• Corrected an issue with RTF text not rendering in the correct color when a “Theme” style was selected.

• Removed “__history” path from “Website” cross reference processing.

• Corrected an issue and made improvements to the script rename editor.

• Corrected an issue if a mouse command tagname/item pair are invalid in “Tagname replace” dialog. The invalid pair are now skipped.

• Added Manual/Auto (MA) configurations to the tagname cross reference.

• Improvements to the tagname cross reference feature.

• Added a cross reference feature for script names.