Control Expert - Improvements to Animation Tables

[GeoffChisholm]

A few of my thoughts on how to improve the existing animation tables

1. You should be able to drag a point from logic into a table.

2. Add the ability to set up an alert when a point exceeds a set value (a column in the table) then that line in the table highlights. In a lot of cases when you are looking for a problem using an animation table it is about looking for if and when a point goes to a value.

3. Add the ability to drag a location in the program and display as a hyperlink within the table, then clicking on the link in the table takes you back to that location in the program.

4. Add a (or some) preconfigured 'dashboard' animation table(s), for example CPU health and status, ERIO status.

5. Or thinking bigger – what about the ability to build an animation view, this could show multiple snippets of animated code within an animation view. Clicking on a snippet would then take you to that section of code. So instead of having 10 tabs open and trying to monitor what is happening in all those sections of code, build an animation view with snippets of code from each section and see it all in one animated view.

[GeoffChisholm]

As an addition to the above Animation Tables should save the table configuration. At the moment a saved animation table always reopens with a standard default configuration. So you can spend all the time setting up a table to show required columns (aliases etc), column widths, display formats, etc, etc. And then when you close and restart control expert and open a saved table it is back in the default format.