Report a bug is easy, report a bug that can be easily understood by the programmers to solve your problem quickly is not so easy. Because if we knew it, we wouldn’t let it happen. This short article teaches you how to report a bug that will be quickly acknowledged by programmer so that your […]
What is Tag or Point in SCADA/HMI/DCS? As the friendliness of IntegraXor attracts many SCADA beginners. We often receive basic questions like “What is Tag”, so this is an article dedicated to our beloved newbies. Because of your support, we strive to make SCADA as easy as possible without compromising its rich functionalities. A specific […]
Provider=MSDASQL;Password=password;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=postgres;Extended Properties=”Driver={PostgreSQL UNICODE};Server=127.0.0.1;Port=5432;Database=postgres;” This is a typical Connection String for PostgresQL and this guide will use it as the sample but the concept of this guide can be extended to other ODBC database. You may encounter error here and there in Connection String while installing or customizing database. Below are some steps […]
Installing PostgresQL Database for SCADA can be easily done using default configuration with the following steps. Download & install PostgresQL core database for Windows. The only thing you need to think ahead is the superuser password. Download & install both 32bit & 64bit PostgresQL ODBC drivers. And then just click through the installation wizard. Paste […]
Below are several main areas that you shall take note to upgrade to version 4. Tagname – It shall comply to standard JavaScript naming convention. Most notifically, it shall not start by a number. This restriction was added in favor of highly demanded feature, Tag Expression. The quicker way to do this is to export […]
We have been working real hard recently as we have been adding features due to growing users’ demands. One new feature is number formatting has now internationalized and can be localized to any country’s commonly used numeric format. And we realized most of the time the commonly used numeric format is following the currency format […]
Nobody cares to compress raster image like jpg before sending over the email, as it’s widely known that those raster images are well compressed and can’t be compressed any further by any file compress utility even using the powerful 7zip. It’s true that file compress utilities can’t do any good to raster images but simply […]
When you encounter any problem during development, there are few things that you could do to elaborate your problem before contacting technical support. One is producing screenshots, second is to reproduce the problem in a new project and send the test case over. There are advantages by attempting to reproduce the problem in a new […]
SVG graphic files that produced by Inkscape can be further optimized by removing some editing data and spaces which will be ignored by or have less impact to the targeted medium, most of the time, browsers. Now you may do that easily by choosing “Optimized SVG” file type upon “Save As” (Ctrl+Shift+S). Another pop up […]
It seems that all modern browsers are ignoring the non-proportioned scaling for raster image in SVG file. If you use Inkscape to resize an embeded/linked raster image in an SVG file, you will find that all browsers will render the raster image in the same aspect/dimention ratio as compare to the original image. Apparently only […]
User often need to add engineering unit into report. Most user tends to use old day’s method to write unit when working environment is constrained to traditional SCADA. For instance degree Celsius is being written as “degC”, meter cube being written as “m3”. This is no longer needed for modern reporting system. Putting proper unit […]
To ensure SCADA mimic can be shown correctly on iPhone or iPad, you must first ensure the SVG graphic can be shown perfectly in Apple Safari, which is the browser used for iPhone/iPad. The screen shot below shown that some SVG gradient effects are not correctly rendered in Safari browser as compared to Firefox, Chrome […]
Below are steps to create IntegraXor database in Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008, replace “project_id” with desired name in the steps: Create a folder for database storage, for instance “c:\ecava\database\project_id”. Execute the following script in SQL Server Management Studio to create the database: USE [master] GO CREATE DATABASE [project_id] ON PRIMARY ( NAME = N’project_id’, […]
Recently we found that Firefox has changed the type of object of a function. Below is the test code: <DOCTYPE HTML> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> <head> <title>FX function status test</title> </head> <body> <script type=”text/javascript”> function hello() { this.hello = “hello”; this.world = “world”; this.status = “status”; var txt = this.constructor; txt += this.hello + ” ” […]
Note: This article is meant for IGX system that didn’t use Internet Gateway module. Internet Gateway will completely remove all described cumbersome steps. Write to technical support to learn how! IntegraXor web server was designed to be accessible via Internet despite it was used in Intranet basis or simply desktop application in most cases. This article […]