QuickOPC User's Guide and Reference
Examples - OPC Alarms&Events - Subscribe to events
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.NET

// This example shows how to subscribe to events and display the event message with each notification. It also shows how to 
// unsubscribe afterwards.

using System;
using System.Threading;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.AlarmsAndEvents;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.AlarmsAndEvents.OperationModel;

namespace DocExamples.AlarmsAndEvents._EasyAEClient
{
    partial class SubscribeEvents
    {
        public static void Main1()
        {
            // Instantiate the client object.
            using (var client = new EasyAEClient())
            {
                var eventHandler = new EasyAENotificationEventHandler(client_Notification);
                client.Notification += eventHandler;

                int handle = client.SubscribeEvents("", "OPCLabs.KitEventServer.2", 1000);

                Console.WriteLine("Processing event notifications for 1 minute...");
                Thread.Sleep(60 * 1000);

                client.UnsubscribeEvents(handle);
            }
        }

        // Notification event handler
        static void client_Notification(object sender, EasyAENotificationEventArgs e)
        {
            if (!e.Succeeded)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("*** Failure: {0}", e.ErrorMessageBrief);
                return;
            }
            if (!(e.EventData is null))
                Console.WriteLine(e.EventData.Message);
        }
    }
}

COM

// This example shows how to subscribe to events and display the event message with each notification. It also shows how to
// unsubscribe afterwards.

type
  TClientEventHandlers = class
    // Notification event handler
    procedure OnNotification(
      ASender: TObject;
      sender: OleVariant;
      const eventArgs: _EasyAENotificationEventArgs);
  end;

procedure TClientEventHandlers.OnNotification(
  ASender: TObject;
  sender: OleVariant;
  const eventArgs: _EasyAENotificationEventArgs);
begin
  if not eventArgs.Succeeded then
    WriteLn(Format('*** Failure: %s', [eventArgs.ErrorMessageBrief]));
  if eventArgs.EventData <> nil then
      WriteLn(eventArgs.EventData.Message);
end;

class procedure SubscribeEvents.Main;
var
  Client: TEasyAEClient;
  ClientEventHandlers: TClientEventHandlers;
  Handle: Integer;
  ServerDescriptor: _ServerDescriptor;
  State: OleVariant;
  SubscriptionParameters: _AESubscriptionParameters;
begin
  ServerDescriptor := CoServerDescriptor.Create;
  ServerDescriptor.ServerClass := 'OPCLabs.KitEventServer.2';

  // Instantiate the client object and hook events
  Client := TEasyAEClient.Create(nil);
  ClientEventHandlers := TClientEventHandlers.Create;
  Client.OnNotification := ClientEventHandlers.OnNotification;

  WriteLn('Subscribing events...');
  SubscriptionParameters := CoAESubscriptionParameters.Create;
  SubscriptionParameters.NotificationRate := 1000;
  Handle := Client.SubscribeEvents(ServerDescriptor, SubscriptionParameters, true, State);

  WriteLn('Processing event notifications for 1 minute...');
  PumpSleep(60*1000);

  WriteLn('Unsubscribing events...');
  Client.UnsubscribeEvents(Handle);

  WriteLn('Finished.');
  FreeAndNil(Client);
  FreeAndNil(ClientEventHandlers);
end;

 

See Also

Conceptual

Examples - OPC UA Alarms&Conditions

Examples - Reactive Programming

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