Add Dynamic Animation and Coloring

[Emre123124]

Hello,

I have a question about Geo SCADA Expert 2023 and i have November 2024 update.

There are 2 things I want to do. First, I want to add a water flow animation according to whether a digital signal is 1 or 0. When the signal is 1, water flow will occur. For this, I need to add a ripple like in water flow. When the signal is 0, it will mean that there is no flow. In fact, the water remaining in the pipe can completely reset over time. What should I do for this?

The other issue is that I need to make dynamic coloring according to real time in mimic. Is it possible to have a gradual color transition such that it will be a color in blue tones during the day and a color in black tones during the night?

[BevanWeiss]

Yes, both are possible.  But you shouldn't do them.

1. When you're asking for an 'animation' that changes, it needs two things, the 'state' for it, and 'time'.. GeoSCADA provides access to time in a fashion..  what i've done previously is have a Calculated Point that is just the second from the DateTime on the server.  hence it increments from 0 to 59 and then back around... then you can animate animations or colours based on (".Value"==1 AND MOD(".Seconds",3)=0)) and then another for (".Value"==1 AND MOD(".Seconds",3)=1)) and another for (".Value"==1 AND MOD(".Seconds",3)=2))... then there can be three frames in your animation.

2. Pretty much exactly the same.  I can't recall if there is a colour gradient animation available in GeoSCADA, it's been a few years since I've had to deal with GSE at that level..  even if there's not, you can do an animation to calculate a colour, where you'd just need to interpolate yourself.

As to why you shouldn't...

Moving things not relevant to actual process is distracting to operators and others looking at the screens.  i.e. it is NOT 'high performance SCADA / HMI design'.

It adds extra CPU load to the servers and clients to present and render these unnecessary graphical flairs.

It just takes time to implement and maintain, time that is better spent on things that either improve performance (of either the system, or of the operators).

[sbeadle]

To animate colour by time, you can use the RGB function to make up a colour number from 3 variables/constants.

RGB( 255, 0, 0 ) is red.

For a 'flow' animation you can use the flash/alternate colours

In Pen or Fill colour, choose Flash, 4 colour and set the first and second colours.

You'll need to copy this according to the number of line/pipe segments needed, changing the offset to 1,2,3 and 4, so each colour change 'moves'. The colours will then flow, appearing to move.

Don't have too many segments and overload everything!!

[Emre123124]

Well, when I use the flash feature as you said, it colors 4 situations and these provide a sequential flowing image. But is this limited to 4? Let's say I have 8 situations where I will provide this color flow, can I adapt it accordingly?

[Emre123124]

I can't see anything as .Seconds on the screen where I made the tag selection you mentioned (".Value"==1 AND MOD(".Seconds",3)=2)). I realized that I needed to add Calculation-Time Point for this and I proceeded accordingly. However, I couldn't create a live counter. The tags I added such as CurrentTime or StateTime didn't work for me in any way for live time information, it got stuck at the time I added.

Actually, what I'm basically trying to find is to add live time information to the screen. For this, I tried to find a signal that pulls live time data directly from the system, but I couldn't find it either. Adding a counter is an alternative method that I can use, but my priority is a tag or signal to which I can add real time information.

[sbeadle · Accepted solution]

To display time in ViewX, just set a Clock Format in the File|Options dialog. e.g. hh:mm:ss dd/mm/YYYY

Then the live time is displayed on the bottom of the Window (if not in fullscreen F11 mode).

If you want to put the time on a mimic, you'll need a simple 1-sec Logic program which writes to a Time variable.

Look in the Symbol Library, "Symbol Library.Example Symbols.Clock Digital.Time block" for the logic and variable. Then animate using that.