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states can be imposed completely asynchronously relative to the application evaluation
process.
The state of evaluation and computation progress is visualized on the PC monitor in
dedicated windows and the project sheet. The most important aspect here is to ensure direct
representation (in program sheets) of activation states on functor outputs using square
markers drawn on the output lines. The activation state is represented by a red-filled rectangle,
whereas the passive state, by a red-contour white-filled rectangle. States on functor outputs
are reproduced for all inputs associated with the output using similar dark blue rectangles,
while the same logic is maintained: activated input – color background, inactive input – white
background. This information, which is fundamental for recognition of the logic state of
individual functors and the entire application, is completed with additional components
describing the process state of some functors, in particular time-delay functors. For the last
case, states of timers can be monitored in the sheet in the vicinity of functors. If the remaining
time delays(s) is (are) known, the evaluation process can be accelerated by emulation of virtual
time at steps which are multiple values of the elementary unit, e.g. 1-second units.
Evaluation progress and results are complementarily presented in many specific windows in
Log CZIP
debugger. These include, in particular:

debugger log window (with records relating to all actions on functors (with identifiers of
such elements specified), input and output states, number of state transitions, reports
and texts generated by functors, changes of analogue inputs and emulation of digital
inputs – the window also presents the virtual clock state and the number of applied
elementary units;

event report window with events generated by functors (the structure is similar to the
one in
Monitor3
);

LCD screen window presenting current and upcoming texts sent from functors to the
display;

functor evaluation window presenting identifiers of functors which completed
evaluation and elements with pending evaluation.