Advanced
engineering tools for faster application development, quicker troubleshooting,
increased productivity,
and easier application maintenance are just some features you can expect to see
in the Wonderware InTouch 2014. This blog post provides a peak view at: Symbol
Wizards, Animation Capabilities, Content-aware Script Editor, Quick Script
Exception Handling, XML Import or Export Capability and why you may be
interested in them.
Symbol
Wizards: The
new patent-pending Symbol Wizards enable maximum flexibility and
standardization
in configuration and orientation of symbols while minimizing application
assembly
and
maintenance effort. Symbol Wizards enable engineers to choose custom
configuration options
such
as graphical elements, scripts, and custom properties and automatically assemble
them into a
single
composite symbol. Composite symbols with multiple configurations reduce the
number of
required
ArchestrA Symbols that need to be created for an application.
No programming or external toolkit needed as Symbol Wizards are defined,
created, and
managed
in a single environment.
Each Symbol Wizard can be easily configured into many different visual
and functional symbols
Animation
Capabilities: InTouch
2014 includes the ability to animate many of the Graphics and
Element
Styles. Graphic animations are directly linked to real-time data values to
dynamically reshape
the
multi-point Graphic elements as data changes. This animation capability
automates high level
geometric
mathematical formulas to enable engineers to create animated Pie Charts, Polar
Stars,
Polylines,
Curves, Polygons, and Closed Curves that visually reshape in real-time. Direct,
indirect, and
associated
relationships of multiple data points can be visually represented in a graphic
to enable
operators
to clearly understand when a process is within acceptable boundaries or which
part of the
process
is out of alignment or possibly moving out of alignment. This animation
transforms mere
static
graphics into contextually rich moving pictures to make them even more
effective.
- Supports a number of built-in animations, including Points Animation (polygons, rectangles, polarstar), Element Styles Animation, Start / Sweep Angle Animation of Arc, Chord and Pie graphic elements.
- Enables the implementation of Element Styles standards in Situational Awareness Library andother symbols
anticipates
the engineer’s next move and provides intelligent choices that match the likely
intent.
InTouch
2014 consolidates all scripting work within one development environment and
helps shorten
script
engineering time by 40%.
Some
of the new features are as follows:
- Auto-complete in Script Editors and Graphic Editor Expressions
- Line-numbers, Multi-level undo, automatic syntax checking
- Multi level Undo-Redo
- Line Numbering
- Consistent color coding
- Syntax error indication
scripts
using powerful exception handling. It comes with new Logging functions for
error, warning,
and
trace to simplify the process of debugging scripts.
XML
Import or Export Capability: Expanding further upon Invensys’ Open Format
philosophy,
InTouch
2014 now permits publishing of graphic elements in an open format schema to
support the
programmatic
import and export of graphic elements and most animations with advanced
editors.
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