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IWS Development EnvironmentIWS Training GuideScreen/Worksheet EditorIWS comes with a powerful, object-oriented screen editor used to create and edit a variety of screens and worksheetsfor your applications. You can input information using your mouse and keyboard, output control data to your machineor process, and automatically update screens based on data input from your machine or process.Other screen editor features include:• Simple point-and-click, drag-and-drop interface• Grouping objects to preserve the construction steps of individual objects• Editing objects without having to ungroup internal object components or groups• Handling bitmap objects and background bitmaps• Status line support in application windows and dialogsDatabase Spy WindowThe Database Spy window is a key debugging tool. It lets you monitor and force Application tags and execute and testboth functions and expressions. The Database Spy is available in both the development environment and the runtimeenvironment. A separate Remote Database Spy tool is also available (select from the Main Menu Bar; i.e. Tools Remote Database Spy).Database Spy WindowNotes:• If the Database Spy window is not shown in the development environment, from the Main Menu Bar selectView Toolbars Database Spy (or press Alt 2).• To access the Database Spy when the runtime is activated, either select from the Runtime Menu Tools Database Spy (the Runtime Menu must first be activated in Project Settings Runtime Desktop), ortoggle (Alt Tab) to the development environment. If the runtime platform is a Remote PC or device, youmust use the Remote Database Spy tool.• The Database Spy has the following fields:Name Displays tag names, function names and expressionsValue Displays the tag values and expression resultsQuality Displays a quality evaluation (Good or Bad) of the tag or function source. For example, BADcan mean an invalid read from a PLC register. When using with an OPC Server, BAD meansthat the OPC Server got a bad reading from the PLC; it is not an indication of thecommunications between the IWS OPC Client and the OPC Server.Continuous Displays whether IWS is re-evaluating the tag, function or expression continuouslyInduSoft Web Studio 5–9