I'm looking for a straightforward way to link user keyboard key presses to specific events in WinCC OA 3.19. For example, if I wanted to toggle the visibility of a warning (Visible/Invisible) in Vision whenever the Caps Lock key is pressed, what would be the simplest way to monitor that specific key...

Cheers, Leopold thanks for your response. It's a pity Squish is so limited in the components it can select. Thanks for the tip to look at the OA recording functionality, I'll have to investigate that capability to see if it's suitable for automated GUI testing.

Hi everyone, I am exploring options for automated GUI testing of WinCC OA and have identified Squish https://kb.froglogic.com/squish/installation/ as a potential tool for this purpose. However, I am quite new to Squish, and I've been running into issues integrating it with WinCC OA. I've been able t...

@gschijndel regarding your statement "If the logviewer is opened with openLogViewer it should be possible to dock it" Would you be able to provide an example please on how to do this programmatically. The docs https://www.winccoa.com/documentation/WinCCOA/3.18/de_AT/ControlE_R/openLogViewe...

Cheers, thank you for all the suggestions.

I was wondering if there was an easy way to embed the OA Log viewer (pictured in the link into a page/pnl either as an embedded module or child panel. https://postimg.cc/kDW8hSPN There are a couple of test pages we use for development and it would nice to incorporate the Log Viewer into these pages ...

Cheers Herbet, thanks very much for clarifying that.

I was wondering if it's possible to trigger the reloading of all CTRL libraries via command line instead of going through the menus in Gedi: See Image: https://pasteboard.co/Ga0QiW7Moazj.png Ideally I'd want to be able to enter a command like "WCCOAui -reloadCTRLIBs" to trigger the same re...

Cheers, thanks for the input will give that a shot.

Hey everyone,

Fairly basic question, but what's the most straightforward way to ping a server in WinCC OA?
Essentially I want to create a function where you can ping a given ip address and get a True/False based on whether the server responds to a ping.