system.gui.warningBox

[Reghardt_Swanepoel]

Hi guys, I feel like this is going to be a stupid question but here goes nothing. In my project I want to make use of system.gui.confirm / errorBox / warningBox but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to implement it - maybe I am just missing something obvious. As a test I created a temp function that counts the amount of times someone tried to navigate to a page I am still working on a throws a message that the screen isn't available with a count of how many people tried. If I run the code in the designer/script editor I get the popup box as I want, then I copied the code to the gateway script library and if I call it from the script editor I get the popup. But if I try to paste the code in a button event script or call the gateway script from a button event I get the error that system.gui doesn't exist. Can someone please point me in the right direction.

EDIT:

def screenNotReady(clicked):
	links = {
		'bereiding' : '[default]Project_Variables/ScreenNotDone/Bereiding',
		'silos' : '[default]Project_Variables/ScreenNotDone/Silos',
		'branderij' : '[default]Project_Variables/ScreenNotDone/Branderij',
		'molens' : '[default]Project_Variables/ScreenNotDone/Molens',
		'verpakkerij' : '[default]Project_Variables/ScreenNotDone/Verpakkerij',
		'logistiek' : '[default]Project_Variables/ScreenNotDone/Logistiek'
	}
	
	var = system.tag.read(links[clicked]).value
	var += 1
	message = "Congrats, you are the ###th person to try...\nNo this screen is still not ready!"
	message = message.replace('###', str(var))
	system.tag.write(links[clicked], var)
	system.gui.warningBox(message, "Oooooof")

[ryan.white]

Post code, not pictures of code. It helps speed up the testing process as people can copy/paste instead of having to try to read a screenshot. Please see Wiki - how to post code on this forum. You can edit your post by clicking on the pencil icon in the bottom right.

Moving on, you have this marked as perspective. system.gui.warningBox is vision only. (I personally recommend rolling your own info popup in vision as well)

[bschroeder]

System gui isn't available in a perspective scope. Only for vision.

You will have to roll your own.

[jlandwerlen]

Check out the exchange, there are a few resources there that may work for you,

Ignition Exchange

Ignition Exchange

[PGriffith]

Separately from the immediate issue (system.gui and system.nav should really be system.vision functions), some other things I notice in your script:

1. Tags are often not the right place to store user interface information, unless you truly do want global storage of variables.
2. Use string.format, not replace for nicer to read and write string templating: https://pyformat.info/
3. Repeat yourself as little as feasible, e.g. your dictionary of links is essentailly just repeating keys -> values with a static path prepended.

[Reghardt_Swanepoel]

Seems like something easy to miss that only Vision is supported. Makes sense why I couldn't get it to work.

Thank you for the reply, I will create my own.

Thank you for the other feedback PGriffith

[jlandwerlen]

The docs are very helpful, check them out.