What's New in the v9.6 Canvas Help

The v9.6 Canvas Help includes many documentation updates to describe the new features and enhancements contained in the latest Canvas release.

Changes to the v9.6 Canvas Help

The following documentation items have been added, removed, or revised in the Canvas Help.

Canvas Clients

• Updated Getting Started, Managing Assemblies, and Troubleshooting to describe installing Microsoft .NET Developer Pack before starting to create screens.

• Added a note about exiting Canvas View Lite. (Use the Alt+F4 keyboard shortcut to exit Canvas View Lite. Or exit the application via the Task Manager (use Windows logo + Down arrow to minimize Canvas View Lite).)

• Added information about how the Canvas clients handle file caching in v9.6.

• Domain support has been added to Canvas, Canvas.View, Canvas.View.Lite to override the ambient domain when starting the application via the command line. (updated in Patch-2022-07-06-Canvas, released August 26, 2022)

• Domain support has been added to Canvas to override the ambient domain when performing a Find and Replace via the command line. (updated in Patch-2022-07-06-Canvas, released August 26, 2022)

Controls

• Alarm Grid —
  • Documented an update to the Refresh() method to reset the cache and get alarm data
  • Documented a new method SetSiteServiceAndFilter() to assist in modifying the SiteService and Filter properties without causing the control to duplicate work between each property change
• Edit Box — Documented new Key Up and Key Down events to allow scripted events when any key is pressed or released
• Map — This new sophisticated navigation control that can be used to give geographical context to your facility data is now documented
• Navigation Button — This new hyperlinking button for navigating to other screens without script is now documented
• Search Box —
  • Documented grayscale icons for use with dark and light color themes
  • Documented two properties "Facility attribute: Primary" (SearchBoxResultPrimary) and "Facility attribute: Secondary" (SearchBoxResultSecondary) to allow configuration of the facility attributes displayed in a Search Box results
• SetPoint Button — This new button for setting a point value without script is now documented
• Screen / Object — Documented a Modal open option to the Hyperlink method for screen and objects to support opening a designated screen in a modal popup window
• Shape — Supplemented a topic on how to configure custom shapes for map visual items
• Tag Chooser —
  • Documented background color configuration
  • Documented grayscale icons for use with dark and light color themes
  • Documented how to specify multiple facility types when filtering a group hierarchy.

Other

• Hyperlinking Screens — Revised this topic to cover the new Modal open option for the Hyperlink method to support opening a designated screen in a modal popup window.
• Added information about converting pre-v9.6 Canvas screens to a new script format and a topic using the CanvasFileConverter utility to perform bulk conversions.
• Added a section describing all Canvas Properties, Events and Methods —
  • Added a topic describing all Canvas control events
  • Added a topic describing all Canvas control methods.

Scripting

• Code samples have been reformatted so that you can copy directly from the online help and paste the code into a third-party editor.