Blink: highlight a state | Mingcedar Studio

Blink Color is a Visual States behavior for fill, border, and visibility. With TRUE enabled, a true condition alternates Blink ON and Blink OFF. With FALSE enabled, a false condition applies Condition FALSE. Blink Color has no blink-interval setting. Use State Color for ordinary running/stopped indication and Range Color for numeric bands.

Bind Blink Color and configure the fields below. The example Condition blinks when the alarm bit is true.

• Behavior Name: a recognizable name for this behavior (Component Name is read-only and filled in for you).
• Setup Script: optional. Read tags, define variables, and compute intermediate values here for the Condition to use.
• Condition: an expression returning true / false. Enter ReadTagBoolean("PLC_LINE01.PUMP01.ALARM", false) directly, or reference a boolean from Setup Script.
• Action / Apply result: TRUE is enabled by default and FALSE is disabled. Enable FALSE and configure Condition FALSE for a static appearance after the alarm clears.
• Output Channels: independently enable Fill Color, Border Color, and Visibility, in any combination.
• Each enabled channel is configured across three columns: Blink ON, Blink OFF, and Condition FALSE - pick colors for fill/border, or visible/hidden for Visibility.
• Quality Override: enable Follow data quality (border / hide) and configure Good and Bad. Enable Hide when quality is bad when the shape should be hidden on invalid data.

// Setup Script
var alarm = ReadTagBoolean("PLC_LINE01.PUMP01.ALARM", false);

// Condition
alarm;

Use it for binary states that need a prominent warning.

• Alarm lamp: blink the fill between red and dark red while the alarm bit is true; rest on a static gray after reset.
• Run/warning block: blink the block while a device is faulted or needs action; keep a steady static color when normal.

Check these configuration boundaries:

• Condition must return a boolean. Pass a literal Tag name to ReadTagBoolean; the name string itself is not an alarm state.
• Blink Color has no Blink Interval or speed field.
• Condition FALSE takes effect only with FALSE enabled. To show gray after an alarm clears, enable FALSE and Fill color and set the static color.
• Quality Override represents data quality. On good quality, an explicit Border color takes precedence over Good. Bad quality restores the base appearance and applies the configured Bad border or visibility.