Developing

Pages 21 to 50 in your workbook

 Application Layers
• Applications are built on applications
– The VTScada layer is itself an application, built on
top of a script application
– Applications inherit features from every
application that they’re built upon.
• Options of the Add Application Wizard
– “Quick” builds on the VTScada layer
– “Advanced” provides many options
Exercise 3-1
 Navigation
• Review of navigational features

Exercise 3-2
 Idea Studio Tools
• Zoom – changing the display scale
• Switching pages
• Switching palettes
• Recent shapes, images and widgets
• Switching toolbars
• File menu
• Quick Access toolbar
• Show Operator View button
 Idea Studio
• How to create a page.
– File menu, Plus button, Ctrl + N
• How to open an existing page in the Idea
Studio.
Exercise 3-3
 Drawing Tools
• Palette folders & navigation bar.
• Drag from palette or Click & Drop.
• Alignment tools while drawing.
– (arrows & snap, Ctrl to release, control menu)
• Selection Tools.
– Menu, select by type
– Mouse & keyboard
 Drawing Tools
• Alignment tools for selection sets.
– Alignment and spacing
– Group
• Resize and move using grips.
– Shift to release aspect ratio snap
– Nudge & Alt-Nudge
– Special mention of lines and pipes
• Match...
– Sizes
– Properties
Exercise 3-4
 Adjust Properties
• Tools in the format ribbons.

• Tools in the Properties dialogs.

Exercise 3-5
 Images
• Finding and using.
– Images aren’t widgets, (but they are sometimes part of a widget)
– Background and overlay images.
• Formatting
• Import
– Plus button or Drag-and-Drop
– One, many, folder-full.
• Tiled and scaled images

Exercise 3-6 & Exercise 3-7

 Widgets
• Find widgets in the palette.
– Read the manual if all else fails.
• The unlinked widget indicator
• Tools folder
– Miscellaneous useful bits.
– Libraries of widget & page components.
• Equipment and similar widgets:
– One widget, many different images.
 System Style Tag
• For some widgets, properties are set directly,
one widget at a time.
• Others will follow a style, configured in a
System Style tag
– Equipment
– Indicators
– Buttons & Switches
– LCD widgets