New features in Movicon 11.3

Progea has now released the new
Movicon 11.3 version

This new version includes many new features, functions and enhancements, to provide the Movicon developer community with an even more enriched, powerful and easy to use technological platform. The new included functions conclude a year’s work based on end analysis and gathering requests from users with the aim to improve their work.

After having concluded all tests and regression tests and completed the correlated documentation, the new version is now ready for release on the international market.

The new product upgrade does not require License updating or additional costs. The new version is completely compatible with previous versions.

All the new included features have been described in the section. For any further details please refer to the product’s technical documentation or this websites Bugbase section.

Area	New Feature
Child Projects	It is now possible to specify a BackUp Server for Child Project to connect to if the main Server should no longer be available for use.
Design	Some new shortcuts have been added for managing screen symbols: ALT+F5: Shortcut command for distributing objects on screen Ctrl+Shift++: Shortcut for symbol grouping Ctrl+Shift+-: Shortcut for ungroup a symbol Ctrl+Shift+*: Shortcut for regrouping a symbol
Design	It is now possible change languages for all Data Analysis object buttons by inserting ID string in the object's appropriate properties.
Design	The Movicon Setup now adds the "CustomStringID_UNICODE.csv" file in which all the special ID strings with all the columns of the Movicon installation languages and relative translations with default texts have been inserted.
Design	The "Dynamic Property Explorer" had been made resizable. Therefore, it can now be enlarged to make it easier for users to edit script code directly through its window. The set window sizes will be retained for when window is opened again afterwards.
Design	The "Check Missing Strings" command can now also be executed by selecting the name of the project in the Project Explorer Window so that strings will be searched within all the project's resources.
Design	A "Custom" button is now available in the color palette through which colors can be selected using RGB code without having to insert it into the customized colors.
Design	A "Replace texts in all project" command is now available for searching for texts to replace in all the project resources.
Design	A project general property has been added which displays the project's work folder path with a command to open this path in a Windows Resource Explorer window.
Design	A "Runtime" field has been added to the "Check License Requirements" window, in addition to the "Development" field, to make it clearer which type of license has been installed.
Design	The Variable Cross Reference feature now opens with contracted nodes and also shows a list of variable not in use in the project.
DOM (Document Object Model)	A new GetSelectedRange function has been added to the GridWndCmdTarget through which it is possible to recover the number of start and end rows and columns for multi-cell selections.
Historical Log Management	Web Client user log-on and Log-offs are now recorded in the Historical Log.
ODBC	A signal has been added to alert interruptions with the Movicon historical log ODBC connections. Three system variables have been inserted for the Historical Log, TraceDB and the RealTime I/O Link. The possibility to obtain "Variable Status" for each DataLogger and Recipe has also been included.
OPC Communication	OPC tags/variables now published by Movicon as OPC Server can be set with the following access rights: Readable Writable Readable-Writable This new property is available in the variable property "Options" group.
Real Time DB	The RealTimeDB "Write on Disk every…" property value is now set at "0". All modified Retentive variables will be written all at the time without delays.
Real Time DB	The following message: "The running project is without enabled InUse Variable manager!" is now displayed in the Output window and Historical Log when a project is launched without its "Variables In-use Management" activated.
Real Time DB	The "Active" column in the variable Trace table now also reports the IP address of Network Client projects responsible for modifying variables.
Recipes Management	A "Read" command is now available for Recipe objects. This command reads values from the field and updates them in the Recipe's temporary variables.
Report Management	String values can now be customized by defining its number of characters in Text Report displays. This allows Reports to be printed with fixed lengths to avoid disrupting columns.
Report Management	A new resource called "Embedded Reports" has been added through which it is possible to create Report directly within Movicon. These Reports are also supported in Windows CE.
Screen Management	Screens can now be opened in a second monitor (Open Frame) with customizable sizes.
Screen Objects	The Zoom management for Trend and Data Analysis objects has been revised and modified. The selected Zoom area is now represented with a size-as-pleased rectangle. Once the area has been defined, a click on the rectangle will apply the Zoom.
Screen Objects	A column has been added to the Data Analysis legend to show the date and time of the recording selected by the cursor. Furthermore, a tooltip appears showing the date and time of the position in which cursor has moved or the position on which the mouse button has been kept pressed down in the chart area.
Screen Objects	Pens deriving from diverse DataLoggers can now be added in the Data Analysis.
Screen Objects	The format of the Historical Log window's Duration Column can now be customized.
Screen Objects	The format of the Historical Log window's Date and Time column can now be customized.
Screen Objects	Grid column sizes can now be defined in pixles using the new "Grid Column Width" property.
Screen Objects	Integer floating point values can now be formatted for the Meter, Trend and Data Analysis objects as well. Incompatibility: No conversion management has been setup for projects deriving from previous versions, and therefore these projects may display different integer values.
Screen Objects	Two variables can now be inserted in the Meter Alarm Zone properties to dynamically manage the Alarm Zone's Start and End thresholds.
Screen Objects	The pen curves in Trend and Data Analysis objects can now be set with "step" styles.
Screen Objects	A new "Invert Selection" property has been added to the Combo-Box object so that lists can be opened upwards or downwards as desired.
Screen Objects	Fields have been added in the "Sort by" list for the Variable Name, Variable Group, Variable Description and Variable TimeStamp columns in the TraceDB filter window.
Screen Objects	The Display object default size has been changed from 100x50 to 70x30 pixels when inserted on screen.
Screen Objects	Variable TimeStamp can now be displayed using a Display object.
Screen Objects	A new SelectAllTextOnEdit registry key has been added to allow Display text to be selected with one single click.
Screen Objects	When keeping the "<" and ">"buttons pressed down in the Data Analysis object, the multiplication factor will now decrease or increase by one unit at a time, while the "<<" and ">>" buttons will decrease or increase by ten units at a time when pressed.
Screen Objects	Three new columns have been added to the Alarm Window object to show the alarm's "Total ON number", "Total ACK Number", and "Total RESET number" statistical values.
Screen Objects	In the installation folder for the symbol libraries (i.e. in Win7: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Progea\Movicon\Symbols\), ".csv" files can now be found containing strings in the Italian and English language that can be imported into the project using the "StringImpExp.exe" tool.
Screen Objects	The IP camera viewer object now supports the "Motion JPEG (MJPEG)" protocol, through which continuous image sequences can be received from the IP camera.
Screen Objects	The IP camera viewer object now supports the "Motion JPEG (MJPEG)" protocol, through which continuous image sequenzes can be received from the IP camera.
Setup	The Movicon setup now installs the special String ID file in the folder for public documents as well. For example: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Progea\Movicon\CustomStringID_UNICODE.csv
Setup	The basic script Win Wrap engine has been upgraded to the 9.3 version.
Tools	It is now possible to specify which port to use in the TCP plug-in project Upload properties by using this syntax: "ServerName:PortNumber".
User Interface	A new Gestuality function has been added for performing operations for changing pages and scrolling lists in display windows by dragging the mouse during runtme mode.
User Interface	The Movicon About window has been updated and simplified.
Users Management	The possibility to specify User level request for system operations to resize or reduce the Movicon window to an icon has been added.
WebClient	A list of Servers to connect to can now be inserted in the Midlet.