OPC Studio User's Guide and Reference
OPC-A&E Category Condition Dialog
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General

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With AECategoryConditionDialog, your application can integrate a dialog box from which the user can select OPC-A&E condition available on a specified event category:

Use the ServerDescriptor property to specify the OPC Alarms&Events server, and the CategoryId property to specify the event category to be browsed. Then, call the ShowDialog method. If the result is equal to DialogResult.OK, the user has selected the event condition, and information about it can be retrieved from the ConditionElement or ConditionName property.

Examples

.NET

// This example shows how to let the user browse for an OPC Alarms&Events condition available on a specified event category.
//
// Find all latest examples here: https://opclabs.doc-that.com/files/onlinedocs/OPCLabs-OpcStudio/Latest/examples.html .
// OPC client and subscriber examples in C# on GitHub: https://github.com/OPCLabs/Examples-QuickOPC-CSharp .
// Missing some example? Ask us for it on our Online Forums, https://www.opclabs.com/forum/index ! You do not have to own
// a commercial license in order to use Online Forums, and we reply to every post.

using System.Windows.Forms;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.AlarmsAndEvents.Forms.Browsing;

namespace FormsDocExamples._AECategoryConditionDialog
{
    static class ShowDialog
    {
        public static void Main1(IWin32Window owner)
        {
            var categoryConditionDialog = new AECategoryConditionDialog()
            {
                ServerDescriptor = {ServerClass = "OPCLabs.KitEventServer.2"},
                CategoryId = 0x00EC0002  // Deviation
            };

            DialogResult dialogResult = categoryConditionDialog.ShowDialog(owner);
            if (dialogResult != DialogResult.OK)
                return;

            // Display results
            MessageBox.Show(owner, $"ConditionElement: {categoryConditionDialog.ConditionElement}");
        }
    }
}
' This example shows how to let the user browse for an OPC Alarms&Events condition available on a specified event category.
'
' Find all latest examples here: https://opclabs.doc-that.com/files/onlinedocs/OPCLabs-OpcStudio/Latest/examples.html .
' OPC client and subscriber examples in VB.NET on GitHub: https://github.com/OPCLabs/Examples-QuickOPC-VBNET .
' Missing some example? Ask us for it on our Online Forums, https://www.opclabs.com/forum/index ! You do not have to own
' a commercial license in order to use Online Forums, and we reply to every post.

Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc
Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc.AlarmsAndEvents.Forms.Browsing

Namespace FormsDocExamples._AECategoryConditionDialog
    Friend Class ShowDialog
        Shared Sub Main1(owner As IWin32Window)
            Dim categoryConditionDialog = New AECategoryConditionDialog() With {
                .ServerDescriptor = New ServerDescriptor() With {
                    .ServerClass = "OPCLabs.KitEventServer.2"
                },
                .CategoryId = &HEC0002 ' Deviation
            }

            Dim dialogResult As DialogResult = categoryConditionDialog.ShowDialog(owner)
            If dialogResult <> DialogResult.OK Then
                Return
            End If

            ' Display results
            MessageBox.Show(owner, $"ConditionElement: {categoryConditionDialog.ConditionElement}")
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

Python

# This example shows how to let the user browse for an OPC Alarms&Events condition available on a specified event
# category.
#
# Find all latest examples here: https://opclabs.doc-that.com/files/onlinedocs/OPCLabs-OpcStudio/Latest/examples.html .
# OPC client and subscriber examples in Python on GitHub: https://github.com/OPCLabs/Examples-QuickOPC-Python .
# Missing some example? Ask us for it on our Online Forums, https://www.opclabs.com/forum/index ! You do not have to own
# a commercial license in order to use Online Forums, and we reply to every post.
# The QuickOPC package is needed. Install it using "pip install opclabs_quickopc".
import opclabs_quickopc

# Import .NET namespaces.
from System.Windows.Forms import *
from OpcLabs.EasyOpc.AlarmsAndEvents.Forms.Browsing import *


categoryConditionDialog = AECategoryConditionDialog()
categoryConditionDialog.ServerDescriptor.ServerClass = "OPCLabs.KitEventServer.2"
categoryConditionDialog.CategoryId = 0x00EC0002  # Deviation

dialogResult = categoryConditionDialog.ShowDialog()
print(dialogResult)
if dialogResult != DialogResult.OK:
    exit()

# Display results.
print('ConditionElement: ', categoryConditionDialog.ConditionElement, sep='')

 

Advanced

If you want to change the parameters of the client object the component uses to perform its OPC operations, you can use the ClientSelector Property.

 

See Also

Examples - Client User Interface