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Appendix C
Customising T24 Toolkit
Some customers re-badge the Mantracourt instrumentation and this section explains how to ship a custom version
of the T24 Toolkit with custom model names, images and descriptions.
To construct a customised setup the customer will need to create a sub-folder named
Custom
in the folder where
the
setup.exe
file is located.
In this
Custom
folder you will need to have a file named
custom.ini
and optionally a set of images in JPG or GIF
format.
The custom.ini file has the following structure:
[Alias]
OriginalModelName=NewModelName
[Description]
OriginalModelName=NewDescription
[Image]
OriginalModelName=ImageFilename
The OriginalModelName is the model that the T24 Toolkit displays without any customisation.
The following example shows how to customise a
T24-SA
to make it appear to be a
SGD-990
and have a
description of
SGD-990 Force Measurement Device
. This will also display a custom image on the toolkit Info
page.
[Alias]
T24-SA=SGD-990
[Description]
T24-SA=SGD-990 Force Measurement Device
[Image]
T24-SA=SGDImage.jpg
The customised installation would normally be burned to a CD so the structure would look like this:
To customize multiple modules just add them to the appropriate sections in the config.ini file.
[Alias]
T24-SA=SGD-990
T24-SO=SOD-990
[Description]
T24-SA=SGD-990 Force Measurement Device
T24-SO=SOD-990 PLC Gateway
[Image]
T24-SA=SGDImage.jpg
T24-SO=SODImage.jpg
NOTE:
The image files should have maximum dimensions of 220 pixels wide and 300 pixels high although if they
are larger than this the toolkit will rescale them to fit. A smaller file takes up less space, installs and displays
quicker.
