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Sort of an off-the-wall question, but it occured to me to wonder if anyone has found some ActiveX controls that have been particularly useful in their ProcessBook work.
For that matter, is anyone using any .Net or other controls with ProcessBook - and if so, for what?
Thanks for any responses!
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You are going to stuggle to find any decend freeware activeX controls. We used a demo copy of nevron activex controls to show a 3D wiremess graph of our boilerbed tempertures. We also used CST activeX controls for real time costing models, they don't have as much eye candy as nevron but do offer a wide variety and a cheap price. Horses for courses, search the net for controls and download their demos and test it.
For interest, what do you want to achieve with the controls?
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There is some work going on over on vCampus to have a kind of "App Store" of controls/interfaces/applications that people have built for the various PI products. This sounds like the type of thing you are referring to. I have built numerous .Net add-ins for ProcessBook, some related to AF (e.g. Docking Window: AF Manual Entry), custom data reference etc. There are lots of people that now bundle a lot of common VBA code up in to a .Net add-in. Depends what you have in mind you want to achieve or if you were just pondering what everyone else is doing..? Principal Consultant
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Actually, the train of thought got started when I was scrolling through all the choices in Controls pop-up window - at work we have 30-40 things that show up there, including some that apparently are used in SAP, and most of which don't work in ProcessBook.
That led me to wonder if anyone was using anything that was particularily helpful. The mesh display sounds interesting, but not something we'd have a big use for.
Not being a member of the vCampus program ($1500/year isn't all that easy to justify), I suppose my curiosity will remain. Are the items in the 'App Store' sold by the creators, or are they shared?
Thanks for the comments,
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Hi,
I've been using some of the Office Web Components (OWC) to integrate Excel sheets in Processbook.
However, seems to be difficult to maintain due to multiple versions of DLLs (based on the workstation OS I guess). A PDI containing a OWC and developped on winXP was not working on win7 nor on win2003server unless redrawing manually the component.
But well, those spreadsheets are easy to use and the export function is well appreciated!
O.
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