COMBINE_DEVICE and selective use

Yendrek

Helo,

I'm new here and in my project I use 4 panels, I connect them with vdvTP and function COMBINE_DEVICE. sometimes i need selective one panel, which I want to use (ex.dvTP2) what can i do to work only this panel when i use function BUTTON_EVENT. i don't want to use function UNCONBINE_DEVICE.
sorry for ma english, i'm beginer

Yendrek.

Joe Hebert

Hi Yendrek,

One way to accomplish what you want is to make an array of touch panels and use GET_LAST instead of the COMBINE_DEVICE routine. For example:

DEFINE_DEVICE

dvTP1	= 10001:1:0
dvTP2	= 10002:1:0
dvTP3	= 10003:1:0
dvTP4	= 10004:1:0

DEFINE_VARIABLE

DEV dvTPs[] = {dvTP1,dvTP2,dvTP3,dvTP4}

DEFINE_EVENT

BUTTON_EVENT[dvTPs,1] {

   PUSH: { 
      INTEGER index
      index = GET_LAST(dvTPs)
      //If the user pushed button 1 on dvTP2 then index = 2
   }
}

Yendrek

Hi Joe,
Thank you for your reply. I know the solution you suggest, but my problem is
that I use about 600 functions of BUTTON EVENT for all the panels
alltogether and the convenient way is to use the function vdvTP (as below)

Code:
DEFINE_DEVICE

dvTP1 = 10001:1:0
dvTP2 = 10002:1:0
dvTP3 = 10003:1:0
dvTP4 = 10004:1:0
vdvTP = 33001:1:0

DEFINE_COMBINE (vdvTP,dvTP1,dvTP2,dvTP3,dvTP4)

DEFINE_VARIABLE

DEV dvTPs[] = {dvTP1,dvTP2,dvTP3,dvTP4}

DEFINE_EVENT

BUTTON_EVENT[vdvTP,1]
{
PUSH:{....}
}
..
...
....
BUTTON_EVENT[vdvTP,600]
{
PUSH:{....}
}

BUTTON_EVENT[dvTPs,700] {

PUSH: {
INTEGER index
index = GET_LAST(dvTPs)
//If the user pushed button 1 on dvTP2 then index = 2
}
}
and then the solution, you gave me, doesn't make it possible to call
selectively only one concrete panel, for example dvTP2.

Is there any solution to achieve a selective call together with the function
COMBINE_DEVICE?

Best regards,
Yendrek

Marc Scheibein

Yendrek wrote:

Hi Joe,
Thank you for your reply. I know the solution you suggest, but my problem is
that I use about 600 functions of BUTTON EVENT for all the panels
alltogether and the convenient way is to use the function vdvTP (as below)

Code:
DEFINE_DEVICE

dvTP1 = 10001:1:0
dvTP2 = 10002:1:0
dvTP3 = 10003:1:0
dvTP4 = 10004:1:0
vdvTP = 33001:1:0

DEFINE_COMBINE (vdvTP,dvTP1,dvTP2,dvTP3,dvTP4)

DEFINE_VARIABLE

DEV dvTPs[] = {dvTP1,dvTP2,dvTP3,dvTP4}

DEFINE_EVENT

BUTTON_EVENT[vdvTP,1]
{
PUSH:{....}
}
..
...
....
BUTTON_EVENT[vdvTP,600]
{
PUSH:{....}
}

BUTTON_EVENT[dvTPs,700] {

PUSH: {
INTEGER index
index = GET_LAST(dvTPs)
//If the user pushed button 1 on dvTP2 then index = 2
}
}
and then the solution, you gave me, doesn't make it possible to call
selectively only one concrete panel, for example dvTP2.

Is there any solution to achieve a selective call together with the function
COMBINE_DEVICE?

Best regards,
Yendrek

What about this one:

BUTTON_EVENT[dvTPs,4]
{
PUSH:
{
IF(BUTTON.INPUT.DEVICE = dvTP2)
{
// if PUSH was from Panel dvTP2 
}
}
}

IF you have done a combine (DEFINE_COMBINE for static or COMBINE_DEVICES for dynamic combining) the master only will see the 1st device in the Combine list. The only exception is the ONLINE and OFFLINE, which will also work for every device in a combine list.

Joe Hebert

Yendrek wrote:

the solution, you gave me, doesn't make it possible to call selectively only one concrete panel, for example dvTP2.

To turn on channel 10 for only dvTP2 you can do one of the following:

ON[dvTP2,10] //direct
ON[dvTPs[2],10] //indexing through the TP array

Or as Marc pointed out you can use BUTTON.INPUT.DEVICE - assuming dvTP2 fired of the EVENT:

BUTTON_EVENT[dvTPs,1] {
   PUSH: {
      ON[BUTTON.INPUT.DEVICE,10]
   }
}

I use GET_LAST(dvTPs) when I want to know the actual index into the array. For example let?s say I want to keep track of what each TP is controlling at the present time and store it in a structure. I might use the following scenario:

DEFINE_CONSTANT

INTEGER nMaxTPs = 4
INTEGER nZoneButtons[] = {11,12,13,14,15}  //zones 1-5

DEFINE_DEVICE

dvTP1	= 10001:1:0
dvTP2	= 10002:1:0
dvTP3	= 10003:1:0
dvTP4	= 10004:1:0

DEFINE_TYPE

STRUCT	sTPInfo {
   
   INTEGER nCurrentZone
   INTEGER nCurrentClimate
   INTEGER nCurrentLight

}

DEFINE_VARIABLE

DEV dvTPs[] = {dvTP1,dvTP2,dvTP3,dvTP4}

sTPInfo	sTPInfos[nMaxTPs]

DEFINE_EVENT

BUTTON_EVENT[dvTPs,nZoneButtons] {

   PUSH: {
            
      //this will track the current zone (1-5) for the TP
      sTPInfos[GET_LAST(dvTPs)].nCurrentZone = GET_LAST(nZoneButtons)
      
   }
}

Yendrek wrote:

Is there any solution to achieve a selective call together with the
functionCOMBINE_DEVICE?

Nope, if the devices are combined then any action to either vdvTP or any of the dvTPx will act on all the devices in the combine, except as Marc pointed out, the ONLINE and OFFLINE events.

Thomas Hayes

By using this "DEV dvTP[]={dvTPW,dvWTP}" you can control all each independently.
ie:
Define_device:
dvTPW = 128:1:0 (* AMX AXD-CV10 DEVICE #1 *)
dvTPW1 = 129:1:0 (* AMX AXD-CV10 DEVICE #2 *)
dvWTP = 226:1:0 (* HTML PANEL DEVICE #1 *)
dvWTP1 = 227:1:0 (* HTML PANEL DEVICE #2 *)
Define_variable:
DEV dvTP[]={dvTPW,dvWTP}
DEV dvTP1[]={dvTPW1,dvWTP1}