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InduSoft Web Studio
Tutorial training – Revision B – Sep/10/2000
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Development Modules
Graphics
The most basic function performed by InduSoft Web Studio is to provide a window into the
process. This ability to display the status of the process, by interacting with instrumentation or
computers, is described as the Human-Machine Interface (HMI). Note that if a system only works
with sensors, controllers, and other process equipment, the HMI is often limited in scope.
Applications created by InduSoft Web Studio can monitor processes using high-resolution color
screens. The InduSoft Web Studio graphic tools consist of two modules: the worksheet editor, in
the InduSoft Web Studio desktop, and the application runtime Viewer.
The worksheet editor is what you use to create or import graphics. Graphic objects or symbols
can be dynamic objects by using animation links. Animation links can make an object or symbol
change appearance to reflect changes in the value of a tag or an expression. Each screen is an
association of static and dynamic objects.
Screens can also have an optional bitmap that acts as a background in the object window. For
example, the static images in the screen below can be part of a bitmap in the background object,
and objects with animation in the dynamic object layer can reflect the changes in the plant. In
turn, the screen has the illusion of being three-dimensional.
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