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1 Introduction
1.1
ADAMView
Overview
Congratulations on your purchase of ADVANTECH’S application builder for data acquisition and
control —
ADAMView
.
ADAMView
is a comprehensive application development tool for data acquisition and control. It supports
functions and utilities to develop automation applications for use in Windows
95/98
and Windows
NT
Windows 2000/XP
environments.
ADAMView
provides an icon-based, mouse driven system for
designing
real-time Autoimat
ion and Control Strategies, System Monitor Displays, and Dynamic Operator Displays.
The magic of
ADAMView
lies in its ability to provide advanced programming features and tools while
maintaining ease of use. A library of Icon Blocks representing data acquisition and control, math-
ematical and control functions is provided through Task Designer. You simply arrange Icon blocks into
a strategy, connect them, and then draw your dynamic display or configure your daily report. Display
Designer provides a variety of graphic objects to design monitoring and control displays. Report
Designer features a configurable format design utility and scheduler to generate reports automatically.
In addition to the features listed above,
ADAMView
’s built-in VBA compatible programming tools
strengthen its ability to perform complex calculation or analysis.
The
ADAMView
package consists of two major software modules and several utility programs. The two
major executables are
ADAMView
Strategy Editor/Runner (“
ADAMView.exe
”), and
ADAMView
Runtime
only
program (“
ADAMViewRun.exe
”).
ADAMView.exe
is for designing and testing Strategies.
ADAMViewRun.exe is for
running strategies in a live environment.
ADAMViewRun.exe
uses fewer
resources and achieves better
runtime performance because it does not perform validity checks on
objects and links between
objects. It does not allow any changes to be made to the strategy being run.
