Component ID

[Jure]

Hi,
we are making software which will auto generate interface xml code, based on the image that we feed it. I am wondering about component ID, it looks that is unique. But I changed value of few components to same ID and it looks that it is still working as it should. What happen if you have duplicate ID for components inside Interface?

[Mikhail]

Hi,

Duplicated component IDs may cause unexpected behavior of Scheme Editor.
If you generate a scheme by some tool, you should provide unique component IDs.

[Jure]

Is it possible to get somehow last used ID, or do we need to parse all interface files and find highest ID value?

[Mikhail]

Could you describe your software? How does it work?

[Jure]

We have a separate vision program that scans image of GUI from HMI and generates a file where it says that at x-y position is some element.
Then we have a program that would generate interface file with position of all element so that person should just have to enter Input channel.
Both are custom programs build by our company.

[Mikhail]

Thank you for the description. Your software is interesting!
A file *.sch should be loaded to get max component ID. However, you should load it anyway to append new components.

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