Vision Project Resource Editing Via XML

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Create Windows Vision from a script

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GUI creation with AI

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Hey I came across this amazig post Create Windows Vision from a script - Ignition - Inductive Automation Forum and through that had a look at the underlying xml files for the vision windows and I would like to learn more about it especially the ActionAdapter method (com.inductiveautomation.factorypmi.application.binding.action.ActionAdapter) that seems to be used to assign the java.awt.events to the components. Has anyone played around with this or knows how to use it from inside ignition? My j…

Note the last forum post about actually doing ActionAdapter stuff programatically seems to be uniformly discouraged and a headache.