What is a Point?
SECTION 3 Points
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SECTION 3
Points
This chapter describes CX-Supervisor points and the procedures associated
with the creation, amendment and removal of points using the Points Editing
facility. The application of external sources to points is also described.
3-1
What is a Point?
A point is a variable used internally by CX-Supervisor. All points within CX-
Supervisor have a name, group and type associated with them.
CX-Supervisor provides a set of pre-defined System ($) Points, which are
detailed in chapter 3 Points.
3-2
About the Point Editor
The
Point Editor
allows the viewing, creating, modifying and removing of
points from the points database.
To open the
Point Editor
dialog box, click the
button.
An example of the
Point Editor
dialog box is as follows:
The typeface of the editor can be amended by selecting
Preferences
from the
File
menu. This is especially useful when printing.
3-3
Viewing Points in the Point Editor
The Point Editor view of the points database can be tailored by filtering or
sorting the available points.
Note:
System Points cannot be modified.
Note:
To select a range of points, click on a point to mark the start of the range and
click again with the <Shift> key down to mark the end.
Note:
To individually select more than one point, click while holding the <Ctrl> key
down.
Note:
The short-cut keyboard combinations for Cut, Copy and Paste operations are
valid within the Point Editor. Highlight one or more points and type <Ctrl>+X to
cut or <Ctrl>+C to copy; use <Ctrl>+V to paste. Since the cut and copy
operations store the information in the Windows Clipboard, points may be
pasted to another CX-Supervisor application. See also Chapter 3 Quick
creation of many points.
Note:
If the I/O type ends with ' ' and a number, it is an array point with the shown
number of elements.
Summary of Contents for CX-Supervisor
Page 1: ...CX Supervisor Software Cat No W10E EN 01 User Manual Software Release 3 1...
Page 3: ...Copyright Notice 2...
Page 16: ...15...
Page 17: ...16...
Page 27: ...Tip of the Day SECTION 1 Graphics Editor 26...
Page 35: ...CX Supervisor Preferences SECTION 2 Pages 34...
Page 79: ...Responding to Events SECTION 5 ActiveX Objects 78...
Page 115: ...Printing the Graphics Library SECTION 7 Graphics Library 114...
Page 181: ...Data Logging SECTION 11 Data Logging 180...
Page 201: ...Examples SECTION 12 Databases 200...
Page 243: ...Performance Monitor SECTION 16 Application Analysis Performance Monitor 242...
Page 253: ...Using with Omron s CX Server OPC SECTION 17 Using CX Supervisor as an OPC Cli 252...
Page 259: ...Creating a CX Supervisor Client application SECTION 18 Connecting to a remote CX 258...
Page 263: ...Adding a Point Linked to a Parameter SECTION 19 Connecting to Omron Industrial 262...
Page 271: ...Data Logging SECTION 20 Best Practices 270...
Page 275: ...Configuring a Server PC running Windows NT or 2000 Appendix A Configuring a PC 274...
Page 277: ...Appendix B Frequently Asked Questions 276...
Page 296: ...Appendix B Frequently Asked Questions 295...
Page 297: ...Appendix B Frequently Asked Questions 296...
Page 298: ...Appendix B Frequently Asked Questions 297...
Page 299: ...Appendix B Frequently Asked Questions 298...
Page 333: ...Revision history 332...