2 Visual Components Manuals

Contents (3.9.2005)
Introduction to Visual Components 2.3
4 Visual Components User's Manual
4.2.2.1 IPC − Step 1: Creating a New Automation Studio Project.............................................235
4.2.2.2 IPC − Step 2: Inserting a Display..................................................................................236
4.2.2.3 IPC − Step 3: Inserting PV Variables............................................................................239
4.2.2.4 IPC − Step 4: Applying Global Settings to Visual Components.....................................242
4.2.2.5 IPC − Step 5: Adding Pictures.......................................................................................243
4.2.2.6 IPC − Step 6: Adding Bitmaps.......................................................................................244
4.2.2.7 IPC − Step 7: Creating a Text Group............................................................................246
4.2.2.8 IPC − Step 8: Creating HotSpots for Changing Pictures...............................................248
4.2.2.9 IPC − Step 9: Page 1 (INIT_PIC) − Inserting a Dynamic Bitmap..................................251
4.2.2.10 IPC − Step 10: Page 2 − Ellipse with a Dynamic, Changeable Fill Color....................256
4.2.2.11 IPC − Step 11: Page 3 − Inserting a ListBox with Control Buttons..............................258
4.2.2.12 IPC − Step 12: Compiling and Transferring the Project..............................................261
4.2.2.13 IPC − Step 13: Test Operations..................................................................................262
4.2.3 Getting Started with the VISAPI Programming Interface........................................................263
4.2.3.1 Visapi − Tutorial − Inserting the Visapi Library..............................................................263
4.2.3.2 Visapi − Tutorial − Inserting a Cyclic Task....................................................................265
4.2.3.3 Visapi − Tutorial − Automation Basic Example.............................................................267
4.2.3.4 Visapi − Tutorial − Preparing the C Example................................................................268
4.2.3.5 Visapi − Tutorial − Finishing the C Example.................................................................270
4.2.4 Sample Projects......................................................................................................................271
4.2.4.1 Example: Step 1............................................................................................................271
4.2.4.2 Example: Step 2............................................................................................................271
4.2.4.3 Example: Step 3............................................................................................................271
4.2.4.4 Example: Step 4............................................................................................................272
4.2.4.5 Example: Step 5............................................................................................................272
4.2.4.6 Example: Step 6............................................................................................................272
4.2.4.7 Example: Step 7 − CAN ..............................................................................................272
4.2.4.8 Example: Step 8 − VGA / CAN.....................................................................................272
4.2.4.9 Example: VC_Demo......................................................................................................272
4.2.4.10 Example: VC_WebDemo............................................................................................273
4.2.4.11 Example: VC_Alarm....................................................................................................273
4.3 Working with Visual Components.....................................................................................................273
4.3.1 Resource Types......................................................................................................................274
4.3.2 Creating a Visual Components Project...................................................................................274
4.3.2.1 Creating a Visual Components Project.........................................................................274
4.3.2.2 Inserting a Panel Object................................................................................................275
4.3.3 Creating Advanced Visual Components Projects...................................................................276
4.3.3.1 Several Software Objects and One Panel.....................................................................277
4.3.3.2 Several Software Objects and Several Panels..............................................................277
4.3.4 Editor Views............................................................................................................................278
4.3.5 Picture Management...............................................................................................................278
4.3.5.1 General Picture Management.......................................................................................278
4.3.5.2 Adding a New Picture....................................................................................................279
4.3.5.3 Deleting a Picture..........................................................................................................280
4.3.5.4 Renaming a Picture.......................................................................................................280
4.3.5.5 Changing the Picture Sequence....................................................................................280
4.3.5.6 Changing Special Picture Properties.............................................................................280
4.3.5.7 Defining the Start Picture..............................................................................................281
4.3.5.8 Defining the Global Picture............................................................................................282
4.3.6 Picture Editor..........................................................................................................................282
4.3.6.1 General Picture Editor Operation..................................................................................282
4.3.6.2 Grid and Snap−to−Grid Functions.................................................................................282
4.3.6.3 Zoom Function..............................................................................................................283
4.3.7 Variable Editor........................................................................................................................283
4.3.7.1 Variable Editor...............................................................................................................283
4.3.7.2 Variable View by Picture...............................................................................................284
4.3.7.3 Variable Selection Dialog Box.......................................................................................285
4.3.8 Text Group Editor...................................................................................................................285
4.3.8.1 Text Group Editor (Overview)........................................................................................285
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