QT in Guide

[acmall]

@Tor mentioned QT in another thread so wanted to ask is this how Danfoss is planning to add screen functionality that has been requested for many years and catching up with what is available in other well known programming systems or do they have plans to offer Guide native solutions to improve the screen functionality?

I am not familiar with QT but looking at the website it requires a €2140 per year subscription.

[Tor]

Hello acmall,

I have reached out to the responsible persons regarding your question and I'll post here as soon as I get a response.


Have a nice day.

[Camox]

@acmall Thanks for your answer.
I'm also wondering about the partnership with QT.
What features will be provided? Will it only concern the design part for screens?
I hope we'll get some answers.

[Stefan]

Hello acmall and Camox,

Danfoss will continue to develop the Screen Editor in GUIDE.

A display with only Qt are in the plans.


A short description of Qt in GUIDE when it's released:

You need a version of DM700, DM1000 or DM1200 that supports Qt.

All the above hardware will get a new HWD version that supports Qt.

The display design are made in Qt, from Qt you export that design as a file that you use in your GUIDE compilation.
 

Have a nice day!

[Camox]

Hello,
Thanks for this response.
Have a nice day

[acmall]

@Stefan

Thank you for the update.

Is there any timeline for new screen editor features in Guide? Competing products have included easy to implement UI capabilities like list boxes, combo boxes, graphing, drawing primitives, etc. for many years. I know of a few companies that have moved away from Danfoss displays due to this and as much as I would prefer to stay with Danfoss we have now started to do the same. We have also found that the competitors displays are considerably cheaper, especially in the larger sizes, so it is a double hit for the Danfoss displays.

[Sergio-DEK]

Controllers too, I'm afraid. Because there's no decent ST editor, among other disadvantages.

[Camox]

Hello,
Is it possible to obtain a date for the release of QT-compatible hardware?


Have a nice day

[Tor]

Hello Camox,

The QT hardware is released as far as I understand.

Here's the part numbers:
DM1000 - 11336171
DM1200 - 11336232

Here's the datasheet for the DM1x00 series where you can find the part numbers for the QT hardware.
https://assets.danfoss.com/documents/445612/AI304864913574en-000402.pdf


Have a nice day.

[Camox]

Thank you TOR for your reply.
Hardware files are not available in the update manager.
I thought only the hardware files were different but not the screens. This is not very clear in video #180.

Have a nice day

[Tor]

Hi,

I just got the message that the DM1x00QT and DM700QT HWDs are in the pipeline to be uploaded to the PLUS+1 Update Center.   
I can't promise anything today, but at least next week if nothing happens. 

I watched the YouTube video #180 and it's stated in the image at 0:33s that a "Display HWD which supports QT..."  is required.  But I agree, it could perhaps be clearer that it was a specific hardware that is needed. "HWD" can be interpreted as a "HWD file" in this case.


Have a nice weekend.