Hello, I am using Codesys on an industrial pc with a single monitor. I would also like to have a separate vision software running on the PC and would like to display it half screen. When I run the soft PLC the my visualization screen appears full screen, I would like to be able to set the size of the visualization screen so I can display other software on the monitor. Is it possible to set the width/height of the targetVisu? Anyone try something similar? I would like to avoid having to put it on a Virtual Machine.
Thank you
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In your soft plc folder, there is a file called targetvisuextern.cfg.
Open this with a text editor to change the settings.
Remove the semi-colons in front of the lines to enable your custom window settings.
WindowType=0 means you will get a moveable window.
Save the file and restart the soft PLC to enable these settings.
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Thanks for the response. I have found this file in two places, I have updated the text in both but it didnt work. Am I missing something on the Codesys side.
How do you restart the soft plc, I have been stopping it and starting it. The Visu screen come up but still in full screen mode.
Here are the two locations of this file:
C:\Program Files\Codesys Control\GatewayPLC\AppDataFiles\CODESYSControlWinV3x64
and
C:\Program Files\CODESYS 3.5.20.50\GatewayPLC\AppDataFiles\CODESYSControlWinV3x64
Here is the contents of targetvisuextern.cfg
[ComponentManager]
[CmpTargetVisu]
; The Window... settings can be used for displaying the targetvisualization in a window instead of fullscreen
WindowType=0
WindowPositionX=0
WindowPositionY=0
WindowSizeWidth=1024
WindowSizeHeight=768
HideCursorCompletely=1
Hello, I am using Codesys on an industrial pc with a single monitor. I would also like to have a separate vision software running on the PC and would like to display it half screen. When I run the soft PLC the my visualization screen appears full screen, I would like to be able to set the size of the visualization screen so I can display other software on the monitor. Is it possible to set the width/height of the targetVisu? Anyone try something similar? I would like to avoid having to put it on a Virtual Machine.
Thank you
In your soft plc folder, there is a file called targetvisuextern.cfg.
Open this with a text editor to change the settings.
Remove the semi-colons in front of the lines to enable your custom window settings.
WindowType=0 means you will get a moveable window.
Save the file and restart the soft PLC to enable these settings.
Thanks for the response. I have found this file in two places, I have updated the text in both but it didnt work. Am I missing something on the Codesys side.
How do you restart the soft plc, I have been stopping it and starting it. The Visu screen come up but still in full screen mode.
Here are the two locations of this file:
C:\Program Files\Codesys Control\GatewayPLC\AppDataFiles\CODESYSControlWinV3x64
and
C:\Program Files\CODESYS 3.5.20.50\GatewayPLC\AppDataFiles\CODESYSControlWinV3x64
Here is the contents of targetvisuextern.cfg
[ComponentManager]
[CmpTargetVisu]
; The Window... settings can be used for displaying the targetvisualization in a window instead of fullscreen
WindowType=0
WindowPositionX=0
WindowPositionY=0
WindowSizeWidth=1024
WindowSizeHeight=768
HideCursorCompletely=1
[SysWindow]
;Windows.CloseOnAltF4=0
;Windows.CloseOnWM_CLOSE=0
[CmpLog]
;Logger.0.Name=TvExtLogger
;Logger.0.Enable=1
;Logger.0.MaxEntries=1000
;Logger.0.MaxFileSize=5000
;Logger.0.MaxFiles=3
;Logger.0.Backend.0.ClassId=0x0000010B ;sends logger messages to SysOut
;Logger.0.Backend.1.ClassId=0x00000104 ;writes logger messages in a file
;Logger.0.Backend.2.ClassId=0x00000135 ;sends logger messages as UDP syslog
Take a look at the following for the possible location:
https://forge.codesys.com/forge/talk/Runtime/thread/7959e0c66c/#618c