Siemens TIA Portal v13 WinCC Security Error ES001

Situation

you are using a Button A with event Release.
If you press the button and you lost the focus, you can work on others controls and the event Release on button A never happen.

Description

1 Create the button A and the button B. Create a shape that show you the state of bit %m1.0
2 On the button A in the event Press write the action: SetBit %m1.0, on the event Release write the action: ResetBit %m1.0
3 Start the runtime and, with finger or mouse, press the button A, don't release the button. You can see that the bit %m1.0 is ON
4 Press the keyboard key TAB. The focus go on the second button. Release the pressure with finger or mouse. The bit %m1.0 stay ON.
5 Now you can click on Button B, and do everything. The bit %m1.0 stay ON untill you don’t press and release again the button A.

Solution

All actions writed in the event Release must be copied in the event Deactivate

Solution on existing software:

When you are working on a software with this problem, every time a button lost focus and don't execute the Release event,
you must press again the button in order to have the release event.

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