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Version Information
EmVue v1
FrontVue 15
FrontVue 16
PcVue 10.0
PcVue 11
PcVue 11.1
PcVue 11.2
PcVue 12
PcVue 15
PcVue 16
PcVue 6
PcVue 7.00
PcVue 7.20
PcVue 8.00
PcVue 8.10
PcVue 8.2
PcVue 9.0
PlantVue 2.6
WebVue
[KB176] Errors 8234, 8235, 14004 and 14005: Connection Error …
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article explains how to deal with error messages 8234, 8235, 14004 and 14005. Details: French PcVue: “8234, %s: Erreur de connexion. Utilisez la […]
[KB175] Errors 8232, 8233, 14002 and 14003: Connection Error …
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article explains how to deal with error messages 8232, 8233, 14002 and 14003. Details: French PcVue: “8232, %s: Erreur de connexion. Utilisez la […]
[KB174] Errors 8230, 8231, 14000 and 14001: Connection Error
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article explains how to deal with error messages 8230, 8231, 14000 and 14001. Details: French PcVue: “8230, %s: Erreur de connexion 14000, %s: […]
[KB173] Errors 8010 and 8011: Unknown Trend Tagname Error
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article explains how to deal with error messages 8010 and 8011. Details: French PcVue: “8010, Erreur tagname tendance inconnu (%s)”English PcVue: “8011, Unknown […]
[KB172] Errors 5280 and 5281: Applicom Local Database Addresses Overlapping
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article explains how to deal with error messages 5280 and 5281. Details: French PcVue: “5280, CW, Chevauchement d’adresses dans la Database locale pour […]
[KB171] Messages 5244 and 5245: INCLUDE.DAT mode
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article explains how to deal with error messages 5244 and 5245. Details: French PcVue: “5244, Mode INCLUDE.DAT”English PcVue: “5245, INCLUDE.DAT mode” Explanation For […]
[KB170] Errors 300 to 309, WATCHDOG
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article explains how to deal with WATCHDOG error messages. Details: Error 300 and 301: Watchdog, No response from process %s French PcVue: “300, […]
[KB169] Errors 172 and 173: Message ignored: %s
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article explains how to deal with error messages 172 and 173. Details: French PcVue: “172, Message ignored: %s”English PcVue: “173, Message ignored: %s” […]
[KB168] Errors 62 and 63: Queue full: function %s
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article gives information about error messages 62 and 63. Details:French PcVue: “62, File pleine: fonction %s”; English PcVue: “63, Queue full: function %s” […]
[KB167] Errors 44 and 45: list full %s
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article explains how to deal with the List Full error message. Details:French PcVue: “44, Liste pleine %s” English PcVue: “45, List full %s” […]
[KB166] Errors 14 and 15: process %s is missing
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article gives information about error messages 14 and 15. Details: French PcVue: “14, Le process %s est absent”English PcVue: “15, Process %s is […]
[KB164] VBA UserForms are not saved with mimics in ASCII format
Applies to: PcVue version 7.20 onwards. Summary: This article provides a work-around for the fact that when a mimic is saved in ASCII format, any VBA UserForm in it is […]
[KB163] UserForm cannot migrate between PcVue versions 7 and 8.
Applies to: PcVue version 7.20 VBA. Summary: This article indicates how to work around an incompatibility that affects VBA projects that contain UserForms. Solution: When you migrate a project from […]
[KB162] Restrictions on executing VBA scripts
Applies to: PcVue version 7.20d onwards.While the basic content of this article remains valid, details may have changed since it was written. Summary: This article describes how to configure PcVue […]
[KB161] Restriction on Symbols that Include VBA Code
Applies to: PcVue version 7.20a onwards. Summary: This article advises on a limitation on symbols that include VBA code. Details: If you create an instance of a symbol containing a […]
[KB160] Restart PcVue with SvRestart.exe and VB script
Applies to: From PcVue version 7.00 to version 8.00 (incl.) Summary: This article describes how to restart a project with a VBscript procedure to call Restart_PcVue. Details: Open the attach […]
[KB159] Mimic templates with VBA/Enable scripts
Applies to: PcVue version 7.20 onwards. Summary: This article describes how to overcome a limitation concerning mimic templates with VBA/Enable scripts. Details: You can associate a script with a mimic […]
[KB158] Incompatibility between VBA 6.2 and VBA 6.4
Applies to: PcVue version 8.00 SP3 onwards. Summary: This article identifies and gives a work-around for an incompatibility between versions 6.2 and 6.4 of Microsoft VBA. Solution: Until version 8.00 […]
[KB157] How to lock the Internet Explorer context menu for the Web Browser ActiveX
Applies to: PcVue version 7.00 onwards. While the basic content of this article remains valid, details may have changed since it was written. Summary: This article describes how to lock […]
[KB156] How to check whether a project is from a VBA version of PcVue
Applies to: PcVue version 7.20 to version 9.00. From version 10 onwards VBA was standard. Summary: This article describes how to tell from its mimic files whether a project came […]
[KB155] Defining an OLE DB Connection String for ADO Access via VBA
Applies to: PcVue version 7.20c onwards. While the basic content of this article remains valid, details may have changed since it was written. Summary: This article shows how to define […]
[KB154] Bindable properties of external ActiveX
Applies to: PcVue version 7.00 onwards. Summary: This article indicates how to identify which properties of an external ActiveX can be linked to variables from the variables tree. Details: When […]
[KB153] Adding a plug-in to VBA
Applies to: FrontVue all versions. PcVue version 7.20 onwards. Summary: This article describes how to add a powerful plug-in to VBA. Details: The VBA Editor enables you to add third […]
[KB152] Accessing extended attributes using VBA/Enable scripts
Applies to: PcVue version 7.20c onwards.While the basic content of this article remains valid, details may have changed since it was written. Summary: This article shows how to use VBA […]
[KB151] Using the “?VarName” syntax in SCADA Basic
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article defines when you can use the syntax ‘?VarableName’ in SCADA Basic. Details: When you can use ‘?’ The syntax ‘?VariableName’ can only […]
[KB150] Using a Buffer with SCADA BASIC
Applies to: PcVue all versions. While the basic content of this article remains valid, details may have changed since it was written. Summary: This article gives advice on using buffers […]
[KB149] How to Start an Excel Macro with a SCADA BASIC Instruction
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article shows how you can start a macro with a SCADA BASIC instruction in PcVue. Details: For the example below, Excel must already […]
[KB148] SQL Syntax for SVSQL SCADA Basic Instruction
Applies to: PcVue all versions.While the basic content of this article remains valid, details may have changed since it was written. Summary: This article outlines the SQL syntax to use […]
[KB146] Logging of Alarm Acknowledgements
Applies to: PcVue version 6.04d onwards. Summary: This article describes how to attribute alarm acknowledgement from SCADA Basic to the current user. Details: It is possible to acknowledge alarms from […]
[KB145] Limitations of the ‘IF’ instruction
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article describes some limitations of the ‘IF’ instruction Details: In SCADA Basic you cannot combine a test of an register variable and bit […]
[KB144] How to Increase the Number of Symbols in SCADA BASIC Programs and SCADA BASIC limitations
Applies to: PcVue all versions.While the basic content of this article remains valid, details may have changed since it was written. Summary: This article explains how to modify the limit […]
[KB143] How to start a SCADA Basic Program when a mimic opens
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article describes how to make a SCADA Basic Program run when a particular mimic opens.From version 11.0 onwards it is not necessary to […]
[KB142] How to Send Messages to the Event Viewer
Applies to: PcVue all versions.While the basic content of this article remains valid, details may have changed since it was written. Summary: This article describes how to run a trace […]
[KB141] How to retrieve mouse coordinates in SCADA BASIC
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This articles describes how you can retrieve mouse coordinates in a PcVue project. Details: This uses the function GetCursorPos from a Windows DLL, USER32.DLL, […]
[KB140] How to open windows in a particular region using SCADA Basic
Applies to: PcVue version 6.04 onwards. Summary: This article describes how to use SCADA Basic to control the opening of windows in selected regions. Details: There are 2 SCADA Basic […]
[KB139] Date and time formats from SCADA Basic and VBA
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article discusses discrepancies in the ways date-time formatting works in PcVue, SCADA Basic, VBA and animations. Details: Calculations of date and time do […]
[KB138] Changing a threshold value by a SCADA BASIC Program
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article describes how to modify a threshold value of a register, using SCADA BASIC. Details: When a threshold value of a register variable […]
[KB137] Retrieving memory information with Enable Basic
Applies to: PcVue version 7.00 onwards.While the basic content of this article remains valid, details may have changed since it was written. Summary: This article describes how to retrieve information […]
[KB136] Printing a Window with Enable Basic VBscript
Applies to: PcVue version 7.00c onwards.This article contains obsolete references. Summary: This article outlines methods for printing a Window (or Mimic) with VBscript. Details: There are three ways to print […]
[KB135] Launching an Excel workbook using an Enable Basic script
Applies to: PcVue version 7.00 onwards. This article contains obsolete references. Summary: This article describes how to launch a Microsoft Excel workbook using an Enable Basic script. Details: The sample […]
[KB134] Error when installing VBA
Applies to: PcVue all versions. Summary: This article describes what to do when the installation process halts at the point of installing the VBA components. The problem as described is […]
[KB133] Installing Earlier Versions of the Sentinel Protection Key Drivers
Applies to: PcVue all versions.While the basic content of this article remains valid, details may have changed since it was written. Summary: This article describes how to solve a problem […]
[KB132] Installing Later Versions of the Sentinel Protection Key Drivers
Applies to: PcVue version 8.10. Summary: This article describes ways of installing the SafeNet Sentinel software when an earlier version, 7.20x or 8.00, is or was present. Details: When you […]
[KB131] Removing PcVue manually using the Registry Editor
Applies to: PcVue version 6.10j to version 9.0 Summary: This article describes how to remove PcVue manually using the Windows Registry Editor (RegEdit utility). Details: Precautions You can cause severe […]
[KB129] Installing PcVue in a Windows Server 2003 Environment
Applies to: PcVue versions 7.20, 8.00 and 8.10 Summary: This article describes how to deal with an error message in Windows Server 2003. Details: When PcVue is installed on the […]
[KB128] Installing PcVue without Windows Administrator rights
Applies to: PcVue version 7.00. Summary: This article describes the error message that appears when you start PcVue, without having Administrator rights in your Windows user profile, when running under […]
[KB127] How to display a variable’s description in a Trend Viewer in historical mode
Applies to: PcVue version 7.20c onwards. Summary: This article describes how to display a variable’s description in a Trend Viewer’s legend area, in historical mode as well as in real-time […]
[KB126] Cursor shape for a fixed-size mimic
Applies to: Pcvue, FrontVue and PlantVue, all versions. Summary: This article describes how to prevent the cursor from appearing to allow re-sizing as it passes over the edge of a […]
[KB125] GDI leak on opening a mimic in Windows
Applies to: PcVue all versions with support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003. Summary: This article describes how to prevent a memory leak from the Graphics Device Interface […]
[KB124] Text appearance as Transparent (on migration between PcVue versions 6 & 7 or later)
Applies to: PcVue version 7.00 onwards. Summary: This describes how to let drawing elements of the Text type, configured with the Transparent colour, disappear from the HMI. Details: When a […]