Using the standard controls in process book I am trying to make simple objects such as lines, rectangles, or circles appear and disappear at specific time intervals. The resulting graphic would be grouped and placed on the .pdi to draw attention to an operator.

I have some limited experience with C++ and C# but am new to process book and the VBA is a bit of a stretch for me. I think I could figure out some more basic VBA code.

I tried multistates but they are cumbersome and I had trouble with assigning states based on a timestamp or clock (and the resulting graphic was ugly). Any suggestions?

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You can try this and work your way from here.

Create a display with a line, make sure that you enable scripting on this object and rename it to Line1. Go back into run mode, open VBA editor and paste this into your code. Like I said, it very simple but I'm sure you can work your way from here.

Dim MY_TIME As Date

Sub change()

MY_TIME = Now()
Debug.Print MY_TIME
Debug.Print Minute(MY_TIME)

If Minute(MY_TIME) < 25 Then
Line1.Visible = False
Else
Line1.Visible = True
End If

End Sub

Private Sub Display_DataUpdate()
Call change
End Sub