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InduSoft Web Studio
Tutorial training – Revision B – Sep/10/2000
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To add a dynamic property to an object, select the object, select the Command button on the
Tools toolbar, and open the Object Properties window, which should have Command selected in
the drop-down menu in the upper right corner. (If not, select Command on the menu.) If the Object
Properties window is already opened, it will switch to the Command configuration. Select the
Main button, add the Command property and enter the Open() function in the first Expression
field as shown below:
After this, create eleven more buttons and label them Trend Online, Trend History,
Recipe, Report, Alarm Online, Alarm History, LogOn, Exit, Translation, PLC and
OPC.
Note: You can use Copy (Ctrl + C) and Paste (Ctrl + V) commands to quickly create buttons that
are all the same size. You can also hold the Ctrl key and click-and-drag copies off of the original
button with the mouse. Using the alignment and spacing buttons on the Tools toolbar, you can
easily symmetrically align and space the buttons. To change the font, press the Fonts button and
select the new settings (Suggestion: Use font size=10 and font type=Arial).
When you are done, the top of your screen should look like this:
After this, select another button, add the Command property, and configure the Open() function in
the Object Properties window with the correct screen name. The screen names should be:
TrendHistory, TrendOnline, Recipe, AlarmHistory, AlarmOnline, Report,
Translation, PLC and OPC. Configure the expression LogOn() for the LogOn button.
Configure the expression ShutDown() for the Exit button.
Drawing the Legend Objects – Rectangles
Draw three rectangles with the Rectangle button, they will look like this:
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