Closing a popup faceplate

[jorge.florez]

Hi guys:

I have a configured a popup faceplate and I need to set a bool variable and then close the popup with the same command button. I have not been able to do it. Can anyone give me some advice?

[geoffpatton · Accepted solution]

You should be able to use a script to do both I think the close is Mimic.Close.

[tfranklin]

I have a feeling he's referring to closing the mimic that popped up (a faceplate or something similar) rather than the source mimic that launched it.  Meaning, I have a mimic that has a button to open a popup.  I want to have a button launch a new popup but close the other one first.  Unfortunately this is not currently possible but I'm sitting here with fingers crossed that in the future it will be!

[geoffpatton]

A simple popup mimic that is supposed to just display something for a short time could close itself. Could be a Sleep or a loop that checks a points value in a VBScript Sub or Function called Mimic_Load.

[tfranklin]

In my head I'm reading this as something like having a trendspec popup where we use mimic.openinset or something similar.  I'm picturing a scenario where we have a button for previous/next and I can cycle to the next trend by clicking next.  Clicking next would close the current popup and then open the new popup in the same spot.  Currently there's no interface to do this.  Mimic.close would absolutely work if you were closing out the mimic itself though, so yeah if that's what he's after mimic.close is what you want. 

[geoffpatton]

@tfranklin there is always something we come up with that the software engineers did not think of and we just cannot engineer our way around the limitations, or it turns out clunky. I helped a Schneider/SquareD engineer setup ClearSCADA to be used as the programming/interface software for a product. It needed to display dnyagraphs before ClearSCADA could. We displayed them in a remote image from a webserver but changing what was displayed from the web server was difficult because you could not interact with it in the remote image. It took three of us to workout a usable interface but it was not great. I am pretty sure that was a driving force in the dynagraph being added to ClearSCADA.