CIRCUTOR PowerStudio Series - Manual (Page 8)

PowerStudio
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1.2.- JAVA CLIENT
The client is in charge of viewing all the information generated by the communications engine and
the resource editor. The client is a platform independent program implemented in Java and ,therefore,
can be executed in different ,as long as Java Virtual Machine version 1.6.0 or later is installed.
Likewise, the client can be executed in Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac, OS/X, and other environments.
The Java client can be run both as a local application (AppletScada.jar) in the form of an
embedded applet on a downloadable webpage directly from the address where the engine is installed.
In this last case browsers such as Internet Explorer (version 6.0 or higher), Mozilla Firefox (version 1.5
or higher), Opera (version 9 or higher) and Netscape Browser (version 8 or higher) can be used.
Nevertheless, the client application may work on other browsers or on older versions of the officially
supported browsers.
The client application is designed with a philosophy similar to that of a web browser. This means
that the program manages a series of views (or web pages on a browser), maintaining them on a list
and enabling access to them in different ways.
Java client application with a SCADA screen as an active view
As shown in the previous image, the client mainly consists of four separate areas, the
uppermost menu bar, the toolbar directly below it, the active view, the center and the status bar, on the
lower part. The name of the view being shown at that moment appears on the title of the window.
The menu bar contains all the client's available options, view browsing, direct access to these,
general options, etc. The toolbar has quick and direct access to the most important options at any time.
The current view displays the resource active at the time, a SCADA screen, a report, device status,
etc. The status bar contains general information relating to the application, showing server
communications status, equipment communications status, active events, etc.