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.

HMI update 12/11/2025

 

• Added “helpers” to the script global editor providing easier configuration at design time.

• Added a configurable window to allow a user to select a string from a list of strings at runtime.

• Corrected an issue with the ODBC connections port type and write failures after the connection to the database was established, lost and reestablished.

• Enhanced the diagnostics logging option for the ODBC connections port type.

• Added a feature, using a script function, to take a snapshot of an attached web camera video stream.

• “Reports” can include pictures in the “grid” area. Added feature: pictures can also be added to the end of the report. Specify the path to the picture file and it will be included at the end of the report.

• Improvements to the solar battery editor windows.

• Improvements to the menu short cut editor.

• Corrected an issue with the dynamic grid.

HMI update 11/07/2025

• Added the “Desktop” to the list of paths not allowed as a project “folder”.

• Corrected an issue with “Drop list” and background color.

• Added the “Drop list” graphic element to the dynamic grid.

• Better aligned the navigation levels in the user manual.

• Added an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine.

• Added an “OCR test...” feature to design time.

HMI Update 10/12/2025

Added a folder monitor feature. When a file is added/deleted from a folder an event is generated and a script can be called for each event. A list of “events” is maintained and if not processed via an automated script call, the events can be processed via other scripting methods.

HMI update 09/25/2025

• Added a cell border editor to the “Reports” feature.

• Text in “reports” is now vertically centered in the cell.

HMI update 08/20/2025

• A few visual improvements.

• Added a script command to purge the email notifications send queue.

• Added script support to return the email notifications pending send count.