Currently I am showing a number of user-defined GUI components (templates) (let’s give it a name: signal) in some of my main windows. Those GUI components are spread around the windows and are quite a lot in number (>50) and I have multiple of such windows.
[attachment=1]signal.png[/attachment]
Now, there is a requirement comes to make whatever signal is displayed in the GUI window to be shown in a list of GUI.
[attachment=0]signal2.png[/attachment]
My questions are:
How to obtain list of GUI component (template) of the same type (signal) using Ignition Python/Jython Script?
How to get its custom properties (such as customDisplayName)
How to draw the GUI component (template) dynamically?
@nmudge ah, yes. It is possible to do that if I only have the list. However, what I would like to rather ask is how to make the list having the copy of the items shown in the GUI without I have to put them manually.
It is like, when I put new signal in the main windows, the signal will be automatically appear in the list. Also, my list is in the same page of the main window. Currently, what I do is to make a copy for every signal I create in the main window to the list. It is not hard to do that, but just it is a duplicating work which might have higher chance of error as the number of signal gets higher.
So, regarding of getting and creating UI elements dynamically, is that possible?