Development of PanDA Form

In this chapter, the development steps of PanDA Form is shown, by the example of unit figure registration form.

Create Project

Press Add PanDA on the tool menu of Application Producer.

Then this dialog appears.

Select PanDA Form on Select application template.

And specify the name of the project. In this example, set "SetRegion".

Press OK then skeleton code is created, and opened by VisualStudio.

Edit Form

Open Form.vb by form designer, and add controls as necessary.

In this example, these six controls are used.

Class name	Object name	Purpose
UnitComboBox	UnitComboBox1	Select processing unit
NumericBox	NumericBox1	Set figure number
FigureSetConbtrol	FigureSetControl1	Add and edit figure
SetupImageWindow	SetupImageWindow1	Display image and figure position
ZoomBrowser	ZoomBrowser1	Change zoom position and reate
ImageButton	ImageButton1	Close form

Select added controls and set properties as necessary.

In this example, set property values as below.

Control name	Property	Value
NumericBox1	MinValue	0
NumericBox1	DecimalDigits	0
FigureSetControl1	ImageWindow	SetupImageWindow1
	FigureKind	1
	DataType	UnitData
ZoomBrowser1	ImageWindow	SetupImageWindow1

Implement event procedure

In this example, selected unit or figure number is changed, it is informed to FigureSetControl.

    Private Sub UnitComboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
                ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles UnitComboBox1.SelectedIndexChanged

        SetFigureControl()
    End Sub

    Private Sub NumericBox1_ValueChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
                ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NumericBox1.ValueChanged

        SetFigureControl()
    End Sub

    Private Sub SetFigureControl()
        FigureSetControl1.UnitNo = UnitComboBox1.SelectedIndex
        FigureSetControl1.DataIdentNum_Figure = NumericBox1.Value

        Dim type As Integer
        Dim fig(10) As Integer
        FZ_PanDAForm.FZ_PanDAForm.GetUnitFigure(FigureSetControl1.UnitNo, _
                        FigureSetControl1.DataIdentNum_Figure, type, fig)

        FigureSetControl1.SetFigureData(fig)
    End Sub

Pressing button closes form.

    Private Sub ImageButton1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
                ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ImageButton1.Click

        Me.Close()
    End Sub

In addition, it is possible to define system event procedure by adding the controls below, and define event hander for them.

In this example, these events are not used.

Control name	Event
MeasureInit	On Measurement initialization
MeasureDisp	On refreshing measurement display
MeasureOut	On outputting measurement results
SceneChange	Just after switching scene
SerialCommand	On receiving serial commands
ParallelCommand	On receiving parallel commands
OptionEvent	On receiving Option Event
ErrorProc	On error

Implement multi-language

In order to switch languages of the messages displayed on the screen according to the system setting, create message files for each language, and implement procedures of loading and setting messages in SetMessageText().

In this example, set message text to button on Setting Form.

    Protected Overrides Sub SetMessageText()
        MyBase.SetMessageText()
        OpenTextData("SetRegion")

        ' *****************************************************************
        ' Set message text.
        ' *****************************************************************

        Me.Button1.Text = ("Close")

    End Sub

Message file is written in UTF-8 as below.

Close=Close form

Build project and test

Build the project from the menu of VisualStudio.

Then the file "SetRegion.exe" is created, and copied on "Release_XP" folder on current workspace.

Edit Release_XP\Toolmenu.ini and add program file name. Then you can start your PanDA Form by these method :

- [External tool] menu of FJ software menu bar

- Add tool button window

Debug

Follow these steps to debug created module with Visual Studio.

(1) Build the project in Debug mode.

(2) Start FJ software from "Start" menu of Application Producer toolbox.

(3) On Visual Studio menu, select [Debug] -> [Start debug].