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EPAM V3.50 released! 05.12.2011

• Support for Windows-Vista/7
• New WindowsCE Targets: SP-240, EP-370 and Runtime for WindowsCE6
• New communication driver for Codesys V3 (PLC-Handler) incl. Variable-Import
• Communication driver DRVRS7 also for S7 CP-343 via Ethernet TCP/IP
• EPAM-Wizard: moving of objects with cursor keys, change of dimensions of objects with Ctrl + cursor keys, selection of objects with mouse (drag rectangle), display of EPAM4 Scroll-List and group-objects, display of EPAM4 PNGs and GIF-images, display of transparent objects and invisible objects (will be displayed transparent)
• Support for TTC-Fonts
• New system variable: s_dhcp_mode to setup DHCP-Mode via EPAM
• New system variable s_user with current user from s_user_<pwl> according to password level s_password_<pwl>
• New system variable s_alarm[<alarmtype>].active_count shows current number of active alarms
• New system variable s_pageid_last, contains last ID of page with option ID > 0
• New system variable s_pwl_required shows required PWL
• Object Signal: support of JPG-images, new option animation-delay=x displays an image sequence as animantion, if value > 0; new data type REAL, support for unit conversion
• Object Button: new action remoteclient=drop to close Remote-Client, new action ShiftEnd : goto begin of trend data Object Scroll-List: display without Slider with option DX=0
• Object #ScrollList , #AlarmList, #TextList, #RecipeList: new option sbimg=,thumbimg= for customized scrollbars
• New Limit-action: PWL=<pwl>
• S7-Variable-Import supports symbolic variable names and imports also comments; support for S7 TIME variables (IEC_TIME) and S7-structures
• Support of variables of datatype BOOL for object-state (VarState)
• Object Trend: new parameter: #cursorcolor=<color>, #xscalefgcolor=<color>, #xscalebgcolor=<color>
• EPAM3 Macros: incompatible EPAM3 Macros can not be used with EPAM4 -> Error message
• EPAM aborts StartLogo.exe, started from Autoexec.cmd to display a Logo.

A list of all changes and solved errors is available on: http://bugs.easypagemachine.com

EPAM V3.40 released! 09.07.2009

• New WindowsCE Targets: SP-200, EP300-07, XV-100, XVM-400, KeTop50
• Support Keyboard input (Button-Option: Key=)
• PrintScreen Support for WindowsCE
• WebEPAM TrueColor Support (epamview.jar V1.0.04)
• Support DNS Settings via EPAM
• RAM-Drive increased for EP-300 (16MB), CPC-300/650 (32MB)
• New communiaction driver for ELAU- (MAX4, C-Series, P-Series), WAGO- (750-841), Parker-PLC (C3-Series), UDP (ASCII)
• RemoteClient V1.0.3
• SetupTargetFirmwareEPAM-V0340

A list of all changes and solved errors is available on: EPAM, Version: 3.30 SP2 (Status: Resolved, Product: EPAM, Version: 3.30 SP2)

EPAM V3.30 SP2 released! 17.07.2007

• RemoteClient V1.0.2
• Support for AT-S7 PLC control function: STOP, RUN, Reset,... (drvrs7.dll V1.4.2, rs7dll.dll V3.2.0)
• SetupTargetFirmwareEPAM-V0330-SP2
• Support for Windows Vista and Office 2007 (epamcom.dll V1.1.1 skip.exe V1.2.7)

All changes complete list of all changes and solved errors is available on: http://bugs.easypagemachine.com/query.cgi (Status: Resolved, Product: EPAM, Version: 3.30 SP1)

EPAM V3.30 SP1 released! 30.01.2007

• New WindowsCE Targets: XVH-2xx.
• Support for UserColors.
• Support for online unit calculations and different measures (e.g. mm/inch).
• New communication drivers for Siemens-MPI (requires ProfibusDP-Slave/MPI option), AT-S7 (Step7 compatible Soft-PLC), Multiprog-PDD.
• New Address column in UserVar for Siemens-MPI, AT-S7.
• Support for CoDeSys PLC control function (STOP, RUN, Reset,...).
• Button object drawing optimized for speed.
• New option "Type=" for Alarm, Trend and Datalog object to use the same definition file for multiple objects.
• New Macro "Project compare" to compare two EPAM projects and display the differences.
• Support for images with 16 Million colors (24 Bit) for WindowsCE/Windows

New site section [parntners] added. 10.11.2006

This is a page with links to business partners which offer 3rd party products, engineering or training for the visualisation tool EPAM.

EPAM V3.30 released! 17.05.2006

• New WindowsCE Targets: XVH-3xx, XV-4xx, EP-300, CPC-300, CPC-600, PocketPC
• New Windows2000/XP-Targets: PC (WinEPAM)
• Support 19“ Displays 1280x1024
• New object: DropDownList for selection of list elements
• New object: HTML-Browser to display HTML-pages (only Windows)
• New objects for database-connection: DBPasswd, DBTracer (only VxWorks, s.a. EPAM-DB-Extension)
• RemoteControl-object: supports login with password
• Recipe-object: support of cascading recipes (recipe1 loads recipe2)
• Recipe-object: new command save recipe from PLC
• Page-object: support of relative window positions
• Passwort-object: new option „SysPW=off“ deactivates the date based master password
• Passwort-object: new option „Bitwise=AND“ allows more flexible authorization handling
• Variablen-object: new option „CoseIfOk“ closes automatically the keyboard
• Recipelist-object: saves cursor position analog to textlist
• Signal-object: transparent background color
• Variable-object: transparent background color
• Trend-object: advanced functions for trend display (scale on/off, scale color, Y-lines)
• New button-action „PrintScreen“ (only Windows2000/XP) for default-printer
• New button-action: Reboot to restart the system
• New button-action: FileCopy(dst=path\file.ext src=path\file.ext)
• New button-action: EjectVolume( Drive #Page=eject_failed #Page=eject_ok) to check out removeable devices e.g. USB-Memorysticks (only Windows)
• New limit-actions: s_myvar=x, language=x, language=s_myvar
• Improved communication error handling (SymArti)
• Languages can be loaded individually at language change (EPAM.INI: LOAD_LANGUAGE=1) into RAMDrive (Default: load all languages into RAMDrive)
• EPAM-Wizard: Copy/Paste/Delete functions with Ctrl-C/V and Delete-keys
• New commandline-options for WinEPAM (Windowname, X,Y-Position)
• New system variable: s_alarm_tin_dt, s_alarm_tout_dt, s_alarm_tquit_dt for flexible formatting of Alarminfo
• New system variable s_myrecipe_cur_file and s_myrecipe_cur_name shows the current selected recipe within the recipe list
• New system variable: s_plcstate_<hostname> to display the state of (Remote)-controls
• Within column „Color“ it is possible to select color numbers (0 – 255)
• New environment variable USERCOLOR=Yes or =Image.pcx (Epam.ini) for support of custom defined color palettes (256 colors).
• New environment variable DRIVER=No (Epam.ini) to deactivate of communication on target
• New environment variable Kbd=off (Epam.ini) to suppress keyboard inputs
• Support of multi SymArti-connections for WindowsCE
• Access to RemoteServer with mode display only (no input)
• Release Mode EPAM_NOEXIT=yes (Epam.ini) avoids to exit EPAM also with keyboard (key “ESC”)
• Macro download checks also language dependent textfiles for textlist and alarm helpfiles and also images and icons; missing files will be displayed in a listbox

EPAM V3.20 SP2 released!

Support for WindowsCE targets:

• XVH-3xx
• XV-4xx

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EPAM V3.20 released!

New features of EPAM V3.20

• For the Installation of Version 3.20 a product code is required. Without a product code the demo version will be installed. Applications build with the demo version, will terminate after of 1 hour!
• New Targets: MC-HPG200/300, MC-HPG200 Portrait (240x320), XVC600, XCC600
• Support for devics with resistive touch-screen (including calibration)
• Support of „Overlayed objects“ e.g. Button with LED, Bargraph with Value, etc.. This means objects can overlay each other and will than automatically updated. (see Demo „Overlayed objects”)
• Support of object on/off on background images (background will be restored)
• New macro „Zoom-Project“ for an easy convertion of projects for different screen resolutions
• New macro „Build Recipes“ to create recipe file within EXCEL
• Support to download recipes which are built within EXCEL
• Download settings will be stored within a project
• Download of project in Release-Mode with Ramdrive without reboot of the device
• Multiple page definitions will be checked
• Improved error report list in EXCEL
• User defined group settings in EXCEL will be stored
• Performance optimization of EXCEL macros
• EPAM-Wizard expanded for up to 700 objects/page . An error message will be displayed if this limit exceeds.
• New system variable s_recipelist_empty, can be used to remove “Load” button in a recipe list page (if recipe list is empty)
• New system variable s_toucherror to display touch errors (IR touch-screen only)
• New system variable s_irtouch for identification of devices with IR touch-screen
• New system variable s_remoteclient_connected to display a remote access
• New parameter Retry and DelayOnError in worksheet Hosts for networked devices
• Support for country specific keyboards and Windows charsets (e.g. kyrillic, etc.)
• New Button-Action „Close=Pagename“ closes window „Pagename“
• New Formats for Datalog for automatically definition of field width within the Logfile
• New option pos=left/right/center for objects Button, Switch, Radiobutton
• Diagnose-Signal with Limit-Actions: for change of alarm state from active -> inactive, the Limit1-Action will be performed, for change of alarm state from inactive -> active, the Limit2-Action will be performed
• New option DX=0 to display alarm list without a scroll bar. New option Coff to switch off the cursor.