Technical Reference Manual - InduSoft

Creating a New Project
After that, the end-user can press Tab to tab through all such objects in the screen or they can press Enter
to activate the currently focused object (i.e., click on a command button, enter text in a text input), similar
to a normal Windows application. This is useful if the client station has a physical keyboard and the enduser
needs to quickly work through many such objects, because it saves time that would otherwise be
spent repeatedly switching between the keyboard and the mouse or touchscreen.
To force the end-user to always use the mouse or touchscreen to activate screen objects, clear this option.
• Use popup input for text objects: Select this option to display a small popup for text inputs, as shown in the
illustration below:
Popup for text input
This is an alternative to typing directly into the text object (which can seem like editing the screen itself
and therefore be confusing to some end-users) and to displaying a Virtual Keyboard for input (which
requires using the mouse or touchscreen).
Note: If the Virtual Keyboard option (above) is selected, then it will override this option.
Also, if the Enable focus on buttons, commands and text objects option (above) is cleared, then this option
is automatically selected. This is to ensure there is some on-screen indication of which text input
is currently active.
Communication tab
Use this tab to specify communication parameters relating to your project in general.
Project Settings: Communication tab
• TCP area: Configure the communication settings for the TCP/IP Client and Server modules:
• Port field: TCP Port used by the TCP/IP Client and TCP/IP Server tasks. When changing this value in
the local project, be sure to change the same value in the remote project that is communicating with
the local one.
This setting is required for all projects and cannot be left blank. Make sure that your network
configuration will allow connections to this port on whichever station will be the project server.
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