RSView Supervisory Edition Installation Guide

• • • • •RSVIEW SUPERVISORY EDITION USER’S GUIDENaming componentsWhen you name a component in RSView Studio, the file name for the component iscreated automatically on disk. The component name becomes part of the file name.The maximum number of characters for a component name varies depending on where thecomponent’s file is saved on disk. RSView supports long file names. File names,including the path, can be up to 200 characters long.For example, the following path and file name contains 111 characters. The componentname, Bakery Overview, (the name of the graphic display) is only 15 characters long, butcould be as long as 104 characters.C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\RSView Enterprise\SE\HMI Projects\Bakery1\Gfx\Bakery Overview.gfxComponent names can contain spaces, like the graphic display name in the aboveexample. When using component names with spaces in commands, you might need toenclose the component names in double quotes (“ ”). For example, parameter file namescontaining spaces must be enclosed in double quotes, when specified using the /Pparameter with the Display command.For information about RSView command syntax, see Appendix A, RSView commands.For information about specific RSView commands, see Help.Names that conflict with commands or macrosTo avoid problems when issuing commands and macros, do not give macros the samenames as commands. For example, assume you want to name a macro Display. To avoidconfusion with the Display command, name the macro DisplayScreen instead.For details about how to use commands, see Appendix A, RSView commands.Techniques for working in editorsWhen developing an application, you will use many different editors, but they have manysimilar features and often require similar information. Knowing how to use these featuressaves time.Using the context menusThe Explorer and the Graphics editor use context menus. In the Explorer, everything inthe tree hierarchy, except the folders, have context menus. In the Graphics editor, thegraphic display and the objects on a display have context menus.2-14