incendium 1.1.1

Package that extends and wraps Ignition Scripting API

incendium

(/inˈken.di.um/)

noun

1. A fire, inferno, conflagration; heat; torch.
2. (heat of) passion, vehemence

Description

:package: Package that extends and wraps some functions from Ignition's Scripting API.

For more information, please refer to the Wiki.

Branches

This repository consists of the following branches:

code

This branch will contain the source code for incendium's scripting functions.

project

This branch will contain the project folder structure as stored under $IGNITION_DIR/data/projects, and gives you the ability to get the latest code by cloning at the projects folder.

Installing incendium as a Project on your Gateway

To install incendium on your Gateway follow these steps:

1. Download incendium.x.x.x.zip from the latest release or from Ignition Exchange
2. Browse to your Ignition Gateway (version 8.0+)
3. Go to Config > Projects and click on Import project...
4. Click on Choose File and select the downloaded ZIP file
5. Enter incendium as the Project Name

• If you're replacing a previous version, make sure to check Allow Overwrite

1. Click on Import

Alternatively you could follow the instructions for cloning the project branch directly into $IGNITION_DIR/data/projects found here.

Using incendium within your scripting projects

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

• You have installed Python 2.7.18 (download here)
• You are familiar with Ignition 8.1 System Functions

Installation and usage

To use Ignition, you may install it by doing any of the following.

Installing with pip

The preferred method is to install it by running pip. It requires Python 2.7.18.

python2 -m pip install incendium

This will install it as package to your Python installation, which will allow you to call incendium's Scripting functions from Python's REPL, and get code completion using an IDE (Pycharm or Visual Studio Code).

$ python2
Python 2.7.18 (default, Nov  9 2020, 16:23:15) 
[GCC Apple LLVM 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.21)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from __future__ import print_function
>>> import incendium.gui.vision
>>> print(incendium.gui.vision.__doc__)
Utility Functions.

The following functions give you access to view various Gateway and
Client data, as well as interact with other various systems.

>>> system.util.beep()
>>> quit()

And to uninstall:

python2 -m pip uninstall incendium

Downloading from releases

You may also download the code targeted to your desired version from the releases page and add it as a dependency to your scripting project.

Contributing to incendium

To contribute to incendium, follow these steps:

1. Fork this repository
2. Create a local copy on your machine
3. Create a branch
4. Make sure to run pre-commit install to install required pre-commit hooks
5. Make your changes and commit them
6. Push to the code branch
7. Create the pull request

Alternatively see the GitHub documentation on creating a pull request.

Discussions

Feel free to post your questions and/or ideas at Discussions.

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this project.

Up-to-date list of contributors can be found here.

License

See the LICENSE.

Code of conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.