CANwizard ActiveX

ActiveX-interface for device-specific dialogue views in CANwizard^®

General Information

The software CANwizard^® is a tool to diagnose and configure CANopen-networks. It also features special functions of the application profile CiA-417 (Lift Control). Further information is available at the product homepage. The ActiveX-interface offers access to SDO, PDO and NMT-services. Furthermore, a read and write access to the object dictionary is available. Further organisational methods serve as an adaptation of the interface to regional and language settings. The abstraction of the PC-CAN-adaptor used and the access to the CAN-Bus will be provided by the CANwizard^® as well.

Range of Functions of the ActiveX-interface

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Functions made available by the container

Organisational Functions:

• Provision of the language used by the container
• Provision of the version and the product type of the container
• Provision of name and type of the used adaptor
• Provision of the current transmission speed
• Provision whether it is a selection based adaptor(for example a modem)
• Provision of the error status of the CANopen-connection (for example Error Passive)
• Provision of the EDS-file used and of its version
• Incorporating the control element into the installation procedure of the CANwizard
• Sending and receiving SDO-messages
• Access function for object dictionary (read and write)
• Access function for NMT status and commands
• Access function for Error-Control
• Registration for receiving PDO messages
• Instigating a finished dialogue for parameterisation of a virtual in/output

Functions made available by the control element

Organisational Functions:

• Methods to create and destroy the control elements
• Method for the query "document changed"
• Method, to switch the control elemenet to "offline"
• Online help in German and English
• Registration of the control element under „HKEY_LOCALE_MACHINE\Software\CANopen\CANwizard\PlugIns\VendorId\ProductCode\ControlName“ with following values by type "REG_SZ":
  • „CLSID“: GUID identification of the control element [string], e.g. „{9E56BE61-C50F-11CF-00A0C90A90CE}“
  • „CLASSNAME“: class name [string], e.g. „TESTACTIVEX.TestActiveXCtrl.1“
  • „InternalName“: Internal name of the control element
  • „PrettyName_de“: Visible name of the control element in German [string]
  • „PrettyName_uk“: Visible name of the control element in English [string]
  • „ManufacturerName“: Name of the manufacturer and web contact [string]
  • „Version“: Version of the control element [string]
  • „PhoneNumber“: Support information (phone number)
  • „E-Mail“: Support information (e-mail address) [string]

„Product code“ and „VendorId” are formatted hex decimally for 8 digits, for example, „000000F8\00000101“ for the CAP by BÖHNKE + PARTNER GmbH.

Information regarding development

Officially this interface is going to be part of version 1.6 of the CANwizard^®. It is, however, available for development purposes. Prerequisites for implementation is knowledge in programming Windows^®-applications and components under Visual C++, as well as knowledge of HTML/XML to create the online help.

The current state of development, new features and corrections can be seen at the following external link:

CANwizard^® Version Overview

Interface Documentation

The documentation of the ActiveX-interface will be kept online at the website of the product. You can find the current status at: [1]

For further questions the contact persons of Böhnke + Partner GmbH are available. Contact information can be found at: CANwizard^® Contacts

License Information

The interface description, the header file and the example program are available from the manufacturer under the free license CC-by SA 3.0.

Weblinks

• Produkthomepage CANwizard.de
• CANwizard^® Funktionsbeschreibung des CANwizards
• Beschreibung der Schnittstelle
• Download der die Schnittstellenbeschreibung, der Header-Datei und eines Beispiel-PlugIns
• Zum Konzept von ActiveX-Steuerelementen, finden Sie Informationen im: MSDN Workshop ActiveX Node Entry