Technical Reference Manual - InduSoft

Screens and Graphics
Screens and Graphics
The most basic function performed by IWS is to provide a window into the process. The ability to display the
status of the process by interacting with instrumentation (or computers), is described as the Human-Machine
Interface (HMI).
IWS allows you to create projects that can monitor processes using high-resolution color screens.
The IWS graphic tools consist of two modules:
• The Screen/Worksheet Editor in the IWS development environment (used to create or import graphics); and
• The runtime project Viewer.
You can use animations to create dynamic graphic objects or symbols. Animations cause objects and symbols
to change appearance to reflect changes in the value of a tag or an expression. Each screen is an association
of static and animated objects.
Screens can have an optional bitmap that acts as a background in the object window. On the following
screen for example, the static images can be part of a bitmap in the background object and objects with
animation in the animation object layer can reflect the changes in the plant, giving the illusion that the screen
is three‐dimensional.
Sample CEView Emulation Screen
All IWS configuration tasks require a Windows-compatible pointing device, such as a mouse or touch pad.
You can run a project in the Viewer without a pointing device if you configure keypad or keyboard keys for all
commands.
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