PX Developer Version 1 Operating Manual (Monitor Tool)

7 MONITOR FUNCTION

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7.5 User-created Screen

PURPOSE

Assign monitoring applications to user-created screen buttons on the monitor toolbar.

Programs created with GT SoftGOT (

Basic (

Section 11.1) or Microsoft Visual

Section 11.2) can be assigned as applications.

BASIC OPERATION

1. Click the "Setting window" button on the monitor toolbar, using [User-created

Screen Setting] to pre-register application program of screen necessary for display ( Section 9.11). Once an application is registered, as long as the setting is not changed, even if restart after monitor tool is exited, the application program can still display on the monitor toolbar.

2. Click the "User-created screen display" button on the monitor toolbar (Button icon is determined by the registered application).

3. Start the registered application program, display user-created screen.

User-created Screen Button 1 to 4

Maximum 4 application programs can be registered optionally and can be started up by the buttons assigned on the monitor toolbar.

Screen of application program assigned to a button can only display 1 screen (even if click user-created screen button1 twice, it can only activate the registered screen of application program but cannot open two screens). To open multiple screens of the same application program, it needs to register other buttons separately.

POINT

When monitor screen (such as control panel) is opened or another user-created application is started up in single-window mode during the execution of the application started up by the user-created screen button, the application being executed will be closed.

When "Do not close when switching Monitor Window." is set in the Detail setting of the user-created screen ( Section 9.11) in single-window mode, the application being executed will not be closed.

Note, however, that the application being executed closes regardless of settings when the setting window is displayed or the Monitor tool is exited.

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The example of user-created screen is as follows:

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POINT

The button cannot be clicked during setting window opening.

The applications registered to User-created Screen Setting or icons registered to detail setting of User-created Screen Setting are displayed on the usercreated screen button 1 to 4.

Even if the window opened by using "User-created screen" button is not used for monitor screen, it is still treated as a monitor window about the limit for maximum open screens. ( Section 6.4)

When close monitor tool, all application programs started by "User-created screen" button must be closed.

Tag data access control ( Appendix 5.1.1) can be used to acquire or set the value of tag data and display it on screen. Using a button in a user-created screen, the same faceplate can be opened as the one displayed in other screens of monitor tool. (As for sample data, refer to sample VB folder of CD-

ROM).

Through faceplate control ( on the screen.

Appendix 5.1.2), faceplate can be displayed

When "Privilege Level" of the application is specified to "Run this program as an administrator", "Privilege Level" of the monitor tool also needs to be specified to

"Run this program as an administrator."

For the method to execute programs as an administrator, refer to Section 5.1.

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