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SIMPL# Pro Primer: Smart Graphics

In this part, we’re going to explore how to interact with Smart Objects from SIMPL# Pro. You’ll need to have an XPanel layout to follow along. You can download my project from GitHub. It looks something like this:

Soup-to-Nuts: Phonebook Module (Part 4)

Here is the final part to this module: wrapping it up and making it easy to use. SIMPL Windows is a powerful tool because it easily abstracts away a lot of details about how things happen. The way our phonebook works under the hood will be a detail we needn’t worry about, it will just plug into our larger programs.

Soup-to-Nuts: Phonebook Module (Part 3)

In this part, we’ll add support for pages to our phonebook. That may not sound like much, but it will set us up for the 4th (and final) part where we wrap everything into a SIMPL User Macro that we can easily drop into our programs.

Soup-to-Nuts: Phonebook Module (Part 2)

In this part, we’ll continue to develop our Phonebook class to provide more functionality to our SIMPL Windows programs. We won’t quite finish in this part, but we’ll be very close.

Make sure you download the current source code from GitHub, too.

Soup-to-Nuts: Phonebook Module (Part 1)

I thought it would be a good idea to document from start to finish (soup to nuts) the process of building modules in SIMPL#. I hope to do a few of these as I build out some helpful modules.

Code is available at https://github.com/kielthecoder/SoupToNutsModules.

Embracing Git

I admit, I’ve used the poor man’s version control for many years since it’s what was adopted by the team I worked with: renumbering the file every time you go to save it. I’ve used git for many years in other projects, but never for my day-to-day work in the Crestron environment. I’ve played around with it a little and think I’ve come up with a set of guidelines that will make it work for me.

SIMPL Tips and Tricks: Logic Wave Delay

SIMPL is an amazing tool to build control system logic with, but it can bite you sometimes in the way it evaluates a solution. Let me be clear: SIMPL is doing the right thing, but we have to train our brain to think around it to get the result we want. Here’s a simple example using the Logic Wave Delay symbol.

Huddle Room: Part 2

In the previous post, we created a simple Huddle Room system… but the logic is tightly-coupled, it’s rigid, and I wouldn’t call it a framework. Let’s refactor it!

Huddle Room: Part 1

This series of posts is going to put together some of what we learned in the Simple Sharp Primer and VC-4 posts. For an idea, here is what we’re going to build in Part 1:

VC-4: Breaking out of the Sandbox

One of the coolest features of the new 4-series platform is Crestron has removed the sandbox environment. We’re now free to use modern tools and languages to develop for their devices! In this post, I’ll walk through how to create a new project in VS2019 for the VC-4.