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RE: Which is more efficient: Multiple simple SVG's or One Advanced SVG?

Posted By Andy.S Jun 16, 2026 08:07:00 AM
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We have access to the creative cloud suite but it's expensive, so I just tried Inkscape first and it seems to work well. I'm not sure if this method is what we'll settle on but I created a Lube Oil demo mimic in Inkscape, then animated the colours of the valves and pumps using the Adv SVG properties. ...

Which is more efficient: Multiple simple SVG's or One Advanced SVG?

Posted By Andy.S Jun 16, 2026 05:27:00 AM
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#FTOptix I'm putting together some custom symbols and creating the background images in Inkscape. I've looked at several of the pre-built bar graphs in the library and noticed that they all use several (7 to 8) SVG images to create all the aspects of the symbol. Most of these SVG's use the Dynamic ...

RE: Advanced SVG properties within Type, not consistently applied to Instances

Posted By Andy.S Jun 11, 2026 09:30:25 AM
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Many thanks to you and @Chad Dale for the document, that makes a lot more sense now. AI chat bot sounds..... Interesting :D

RE: Advanced SVG properties within Type, not consistently applied to Instances

Posted By Andy.S Jun 11, 2026 07:50:30 AM
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Thanks, I'll definitely share my feedback and your summary helps a lot. TBH, I'd not even noticed it as an option until pointed it out, so will explore further. In the meantime, I'm just putting together a separate project that I can test the SVG with. Assuming I can reproduce it, would you like me to ...

RE: Advanced SVG properties within Type, not consistently applied to Instances

Posted By Andy.S Jun 11, 2026 03:10:00 AM
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Thank you, I'll look at reproducing the issue in a clean project and raise a ticket, if I can reliably reproduce it. With regards to the Modelling Rule, is there any further help anywhere I can take a look at? Browsing a previously built symbol I can see that all of the custom properties can be switched ...

RE: Advanced SVG properties within Type, not consistently applied to Instances

Posted By Andy.S Jun 10, 2026 03:15:13 AM
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HI @CodeAssist I had figured that I needed to force a reload of an updated image, however that's not what is going on here. What I'd done is create the SVG in Inkscape, add it to the parent symbol as an Advanced SVG, and then saw the change in all of the Instances. A while later I then added additional ...

Advanced SVG properties within Type, not consistently applied to Instances

Posted By Andy.S Jun 09, 2026 06:10:00 AM
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#FTOptix Hi, I've a template symbol (type) that is used within an application and I've subsequently added an Advanced SVG image to the symbol. In this case, the background image, with highlight/lowlight colours. At first, the new image wasn't seen on the Instances, but following closing and ...

RE: Data Grid - Disable row selection or force deselection

Posted By Andy.S Jun 03, 2026 09:08:08 AM
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Linking "Selected Item" to "Localized alarms" did give the desired workaround. Setting the style sheet "DataList>Selected Text" colour to transparent also worked.

RE: Data Grid - Disable row selection or force deselection

Posted By Andy.S Jun 03, 2026 07:59:46 AM
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It looks like you've linked yours to the Query property, I get an error if I try that. The only thing I can find it's happy with is the Localized alarms NodeID. Further digging shows it's linked to me having source data linked to Model. If you link Model to "Localized alarms" and link the Item kind of ...

RE: Data Grid - Disable row selection or force deselection

Posted By Andy.S Jun 03, 2026 07:14:00 AM
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Regardless of which Node Class I specify, it's not happy linking to anything that I've found? I tried linking to the Ack button and then to a tag: 2026-06-03 13:12:07.793;FTOptixStudio;11;Warning;18;Root/Objects/FrameworkDev_NavV6/UI/MimicPanels/Alarms/VerticalLayout1/AlarmGrid1/AcknowledgeAllButton ...

Data Grid - Disable row selection or force deselection

Posted By Andy.S Jun 03, 2026 05:18:00 AM
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#FTOptix (not sure if this tag is still needed?) Hi Everyone, I've a summary alarm message object, that uses a Data Grid, for displaying messages. The message colours are configured to match a legacy standard. When the data grid is empty and visible, new messages appear and are coloured correctly. ...

RE: FTOptix Scale Layout - scale error within container

Posted By Andy.S Apr 28, 2026 12:03:00 PM
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Just to add, while the error seems to persist during the editing session, if you save the project, exit and re-open, the alignment is fixed and as expected. My sequence to repeat this was: Create Scale Layout > Double-click to open > adjust size to 400W x 40H > Add Horz Layout. The Horz Layout ...

FTOptix Scale Layout - scale error within container

Posted By Andy.S Apr 28, 2026 11:30:00 AM
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#FTOptix I'm seeing an issue that doesn't appear to be in an earlier version of FTOptix. At this stage I have 1.7.2 as my current version and I still have 1.6.5.1 installed for comparison. If I create a Scale Layout container and then place a Horizontal Layout within it, the size of the Horizontal ...

RE: FT Optix: Limiting a Dialog Popups to Single Runtime Instances.

Posted By Andy.S Apr 20, 2026 08:07:00 AM
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I'm a bit confused with the OpenDialog method, which needs the target container (UIRoot window), but then DialogType, not Dialog? If I search in the help for OpenDialog it says it needs Dialog and AliasNode. Where should I look for more info? Thanks again. ------------------------------------------ ...

RE: FT Optix: Limiting a Dialog Popups to Single Runtime Instances.

Posted By Andy.S Apr 20, 2026 04:44:00 AM
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Thanks, I was leaning towards this as it means it's all contained with no instance configuration. Am I right in thinking I should be able to just use IUANode.Find ("MyPopupInstance1") to check for null instances in the current session? -------------------------------------------

FT Optix: Limiting a Dialog Popups to Single Runtime Instances.

Posted By Andy.S Apr 20, 2026 03:33:00 AM
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#FTOptix Hi Everyone, I'm looking to determine the most elegant way of achieving single runtime instances of a Dialog Popup? Let me explain further: I've created a Dialog Popup Type (template) that we intend to use for any overlay popups that we need in our application. This will include ...

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 ...

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 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. ...

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 ...