FlexPendant behaviour on a tablet

Robot Controller
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Hello,
we are actually programming a visual interface on a tablet to replace several functions of the FlexPendant.

  • we need to visualize all Messagetypes from the FP like Lists, Confirm-Messages, Info Messages, Number-inputs, Text-inputs, TPWrite.
  • a generic listto Set/Unset all digital/analog signals. This list should adapt itself to the amount of the existing sifnals and should maybe sorted by Device/Bus/userdefined.
  • a User interface for the Cognex library(IntegratedVision) to change some settings of existing Jobs, or also to create new ones. There are several subpoints like, setting the regions grafically, choosing the regiontype, setting the search parameter, etc.
    We would appreciate every help on this and every code snippet in C#/WPF(or also window forms) could help.
    Thank You

Best regards
Jürgen

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Good morning,
that you want to do is not a little thing. This is a big project… :wink:

  • what is the s.o. of your tablet? if windows mobile you can try by VS2013 for mobile dev. with ABB PC SDK.

For start you can try to read PC SDK, there are many and good example code snippet. ( http://developercenter.robotstudio.com/Index.aspx?DevCenter=RobotCommunication&OpenDocument&Url=html%2Fea7d0bad-2991-4c46-9053-56f3571d0929.htm )

However, I’m not sure that it’s possible develop some app for mobile s.o. with ABB PC SDK. (I never tryed..) Maybe you can try with Xamarin Platform ( Mobile development with Xamarin | .NET ) and use ABB api library on it. I don’t know if it work or about their compatibility at runtime, but i think that this can be a way to try.

regards Emanuele