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Basic Script Icon
BasicScript is used to get, analyze and set I/O data.
1.3.2 Task Designer
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Task Designer uses a dataflow programming model that frees you from the linear architecture
of text-based languages. To create a process monitoring and control application, you construct the
block diagram without worrying about the many syntactical details of conventional programming.
Simply select objects (icons) from the Icon Toolbox and connect them with wires to pass data from one
block to the next.
Multiple Tasks to Improve Performance
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Task Designer allows editing of multiple tasks at the same time. Each task is contained in a
task window and has it‘s own properties such as scan rate, start/stop method, etc. One strategy file is
used to store all scan tasks that are related to a control strategy. For simple strategy with only one
task, it runs the same way as before. But for strategies that have more than one scan task, a top-level
main script is required to manage the execution of all scan tasks.
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supports up to 8 tasks.
A large complicated task can be broken into several smaller, simpler tasks. This not only simplifies
the editing job, but also increases the performance at runtime, as fewer blocks need to be processed
at each scan.
Block Sequence Arrangement
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Task Designer features the block sequence arrangement functions that shows the order of
execution on all blocks. With displayed order number, users can arrange the order of execution of the
blocks (icons) based on the priority of operations to meet the requirements of system needs.
Virtual Tag
The Virtual Tag is a powerful feature that provides the ability to let developer to create customized tag
in Task Designer without using User Defined DLL. The virtual tag is created by Task Designer and
stored in data center as other built-in blocks. The virtual tags are global available to all tasks, so you
can use virtual tags to share data among multiple tasks.
1.3.3 Display Designer
If you have MMI requirements,
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screen designer will help you quickly create intuitive standard
graphical displays by provided graphical wizards. And, you can further customize your MMI with
drawing tools and user-defined display tool.
Drawing Tools
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enhances the man-machine interface (MMI) by providing graphic tools to draw pumps, valves,
rectangles, circles, segments, and polygons in the screen designer’s toolbox. In addition, it allows the
user to configure the colors and sizes of these figures. These drawing tools include oval, rectangle,
round rectangle, polygon and line. In addition to drawing tools,
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also provides “Make Object”
and “Break Object” commands to let you integrate drawing components into a meaningful picture for
your data acquisition and control.
