Our goal in this project is to program a simple huddle room system. We're going to design something that looks like this: Over time, we'll flesh this program out into something with more features, but for this part, it's going to remain pretty bare-bones. This system is going to operate very simply: The display automatically … Continue reading SIMPL# Pro Primer: Part 5 →

Originally, I wanted to make Part 4 similar to the program in Part 3, just showing how to do it with a DMPS instead. But testing it means I have to get a DMPS setup in my lab and I don't feel like doing that just yet. So instead, we'll take a step back and … Continue reading SIMPL# Pro Primer: Part 4 →

We didn't get very far in the last tutorial, but we did get all of our devices added successfully to the program. We're going to continue using the same project and finish it by creating a user interface and adding some program logic. Open up VT-Pro and create the following layout (this file is also … Continue reading SIMPL# Pro Primer: Part 3 (continued) →

By now you should be a pro at creating new SIMPL# Pro projects. Let's create another one, but we're going to set this one up slightly different this time. We'll still call it Part3, but change the solution name to Primer: Slight change in project creation, we'll add everything to the Primer solution from now … Continue reading SIMPL# Pro Primer: Part 3 →

In Part 2 of this primer, we're going to keep things simple... another Hello World program. Sorry, maybe Part 3 will cover something more exciting? Lets create a new project. Follow the same steps as in Part 1 if you're unfamiliar, but here is what we're using this time: Create a new project named Part2 … Continue reading SIMPL# Pro Primer: Part 2 →