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RE: FT Optix: Searching/Modifying all objects of a type at Design Time - Seen a post but have now lost it

Posted By Andy.S Apr 07, 2026 08:00:00 AM
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Found it and I had the function nearly right. It was FindNodesByType and was searching for buttons and changing their width. FTOptix Ui style configuration | Advanced Software Thanks again for your help. -------------------------------------------

RE: FT Optix: Searching/Modifying all objects of a type at Design Time - Seen a post but have now lost it

Posted By Andy.S Apr 07, 2026 07:53:00 AM
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Thank you, I will forward this one on but it's not the one I was thinking of. I'm guessing I can't find it as the methods shown were nothing to do with the original question. I feel the Netlogic script was posted in the reply. It used the GetNodesByType function to return, I think, all of the Windows ...

Searching/Modifying all objects of a type at Design Time - Seen a post but have now lost it

Posted By Andy.S Apr 07, 2026 05:23:00 AM
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#FTOptix I've been trying to find a post that I saw a few weeks ago, to pass on to a colleague but now can't find it. The post related to a design time script which was used to search for all occurrences of a Type in a project, which were iterated through and modified with a global change. I think ...

RE: Separating Date/Time Format from Locale

Posted By Andy.S Mar 27, 2026 07:37:00 AM
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Thanks Lorenzo, that's really useful to know. In our use case it's mainly for the data grid message display, where we incorporate alarms, trips and process state/event messages. The flexibility for user based units is great though I can imagine confusion if one operator was using 12hr and the other using ...

Separating Date/Time Format from Locale

Posted By Andy.S Mar 27, 2026 07:03:00 AM
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#FTOptix As per the title, is there a way to independently define the Time and Date formats beyond those predefined within the locale? I can't see a way of displaying 12hr AM/PM format with regions beyond Eng-US? 12/24 hr format is sometimes specific to an end customer and not necessarily aligned ...

RE: Style Sheet Retentivity

Posted By Andy.S Mar 19, 2026 10:56:00 AM
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Thanks @CodeAssist, this explains the flaky operation I was seeing, as my first switch of the style was never reflected in the project. Both methods work fine for me now, so now I'm spoilt for choice :) From the point of view of our internal design support team, we may prefer to stick with the method ...

RE: Style Sheet Retentivity

Posted By Andy.S Mar 19, 2026 08:49:00 AM
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Ah OK, so switching the integer to change style rather than the current style itself, thanks Craig, that's a good idea. My tired brain just carried on down the path of trying to directly switch the session style sheet 😀 ------------------------------------------- ...

Style Sheet Retentivity

Posted By Andy.S Mar 19, 2026 07:22:00 AM
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Hi all, #FTOptix Again on the subject of retentivity, what is the best method for keeping the chosen style sheet between restarts? I can switch the current session style OK, but I don't think I can directly connect that to a retentivity node. I created a Model object called "CurrentStyle", of type ...

RE: Using Retentivity for Position Persistence.

Posted By Andy.S Mar 18, 2026 06:46:00 AM
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Many thanks, I knew it would be something silly. When you click on the example connections it doesn't take you to the advanced tag, like it does when you've added a complex connection, so I was just assuming that dragged tag connections were automatically 2 way. That fixed it :) -------------------- ...

Using Retentivity for Position Persistence.

Posted By Andy.S Mar 18, 2026 04:35:00 AM
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#FTOptix I'm trying to give some draggable popups (Dialog containers) persistence on their position. I've looked at the FeatureDemo2 project and tried replicating the draggable cards and couldn't get it to work. In fact, new versions of the working object type don't seem to work. I also tried adding ...

RE: U.S. Shipping Only: Limited FT Optix Branded Wireless Chargers Available

Posted By Andy.S Mar 16, 2026 05:20:33 AM
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DOH! 😂 (UK based) ------------------------------------------- ...

RE: Instances of Some Types (e.g. Panels) Become New Types

Posted By Andy.S Mar 13, 2026 09:14:00 AM
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I did miss it so that's great, thank you. -------------------------------------------

RE: Instances of Some Types (e.g. Panels) Become New Types

Posted By Andy.S Mar 13, 2026 08:22:31 AM
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Sorry, it was my misunderstanding of the search and no slight on your suggestion. All this time playing about with Optix and I'd never found the need to use the search, other than the project view filter occasionally. In reality we will be >12 months away from fielding question from our support team. ...

RE: Instances of Some Types (e.g. Panels) Become New Types

Posted By Andy.S Mar 13, 2026 08:06:00 AM
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Currently they do, which works as it gets a partial match on the display name. However, if the submenu is called FuelSystemMenu, the search doesn't find SubMenu in the Type. From our Design Support team's POV, I'd prefer that they are looking for logical connections (if that's the right term) between ...

RE: Instances of Some Types (e.g. Panels) Become New Types

Posted By Andy.S Mar 13, 2026 04:45:00 AM
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I've just tried this, from the global search and from the project view search, and it only gives me one occurrence of SubMenu2, which is the Type in Templates. The SubTypes derived from Type are not found. Not a huge problem for me, but it would be nice for people unfamiliar with the layout to be able ...

RE: Instances of Some Types (e.g. Panels) Become New Types

Posted By Andy.S Mar 10, 2026 02:47:00 AM
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That's a good idea, thanks. Is there anywhere in the documentation that describes subtypes,? I've seen that the Cheat sheet, does mention that all Design-Time created objects are Types, which become instances of sessions/presentation engines, but haven't seen mention of subtypes? ------------------- ...

RE: Instances of Some Types (e.g. Panels) Become New Types

Posted By Andy.S Mar 09, 2026 09:12:00 AM
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Thanks, I'll have a read through that. I wasn't suggesting it's not normal, but that I just can't simply navigate to where its been used. I'm fine navigating around, as I've build our framework and I'm hopefully creating sensible rules. However, contract engineering work needs to be examined and reviewed ...

Instances of Some Types (e.g. Panels) Become New Types

Posted By Andy.S Mar 09, 2026 08:23:00 AM
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#FTOptix I'm in the process of defining standard objects (Types), for a company-wide standard and noticed that we can't always cross reference where the Types are used. In this particular case, I've a Panel that is one of many SubMenu's, so it's basic features are defined in a type, SubMenu (Type). ...

RE: Minor Issue Creating Type from Style Sheet

Posted By Andy.S Mar 03, 2026 04:33:38 AM
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Thanks, I sort of guessed it it was a DisplayName vs BrowseName. What confused our training team was the tooltip text suggesting both are displaying BrowseName (see below). Intuitively, they look the same to our field ops, so to avoid confusion I will enforce everything as Pascal case with no spaces. ...

Minor Issue Creating Type from Style Sheet

Posted By Andy.S Mar 03, 2026 03:57:00 AM
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#FTOptix Hi all, I'm not sure what the correct procedure is for reporting glitches and in this particular case it's not clear which one is the wrong one :) I've ran into an error when creating a Type from a custom Style Sheet. The style sheet has some additional button styles, rectangle styles and ...