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Chapter 14: Real-Time Screen Design

Palette Properties

To edit the palette properties, select the palette as the object to be edited by clicking on an

empty area of the grid. In the first box of the property editor form, the word frmRTForm:

TfrmRTForm will appear. The properties listed on the form will only affect the palette. A

description of the basic and advanced palette properties is listed below.
Basic Properties

Color: Sets the color of the palette.
Height: Sets the total height of the palette
Left: Sets the screen position of the palette as measured from the left side of the

monitor.

Title: Text that appears at the top of the palette.
Top: Sets the screen position of the palette as measured from the top side of the

monitor.

Width: Sets the total width of the palette.

Advanced Properties

Font: Sets the default font for labels and text. Click in the font box and then click

the small button at the end of the box to select a font.

Color: Sets the color of the text.
Height: Sets the height of the font object in pixels. If you wish to use a specific

point size, you should set the Size property.

SeLeCTING SCADA UNITS

You may retrieve and display I/O information from one or more SCADA 3000 units on a single

Real-time screen. To do this, you must define which units will be opened when the screen is

run. To select SCADA units click on the Data tab. Next, click on the SCADA 3000 icon and

then click on the palette. The SCADA icon will appear on the palette. (It becomes invisible

in Run mode.) Use the Property Editor to assign the icon to a unit in your database. Click

on SCADA Unit in the Property Editor to assign the icon to a unit in your database. Click on

SCADAUnit in the Property Editor and click on the button at the end of the box. This will

bring up a form to select a SCADA 3000 from your database.
Use the pulldown menu to the right to bring up the list of possible units. Select the unit you’re

configuring. Once you select a unit, the Active box should show a checkmark.
Click on the ConnectType box above SCADAUnit in the Property editor and select the type of

connection for the unit. (See figure below.) You have three choices:

Figure 5: Connect type menu

Local: Means that the unit is connected directly to your computer via a serial port.