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The maxVUE Editor Starting the MAXVUE EDITOR The maxSTATION maxSTATION Startup Prior to starting maxVUE you must ensure that you have logged on as an Engineer and that the maxVUE Startup has loaded the essential SBP applications.

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H U M A N M A C H I N I N T E R F A C E

The maxVUE EDITOR Display

Double-clicking the maxVUE Editor icon on the maxSTATION or selecting the Start menu > Programs > maxDNA > maxVUE Editor will load the maxVUE Editor.

The maxVUE Toolbar New

To create a new screen at any time, click the “New” button on the maxVUE toolbar. You will be prompted to define a location for the screen.

Open To open a screen, click on the “Open” button on the maxVUE toolbar. When the dialog box appears, select the screen in the File Name box, and then choose the OK button.

Save To save a screen, click on the “Save” button on the standard maxVUE toolbar. When you save a previously unnamed screen for the first time, maxVUE displays the “Save As” dialog box so you can type a name for the screen. The “Save As” dialog box is also available from the File menu.


Cut H U M A N M A C H I N I N T E R F A C E

To remove an object from the screen and copy it to the clipboard, you would first clic on the selected object them click on the “Cut” tool on the maxVUE toolbar. The cut function is also available from the Edit menu. Note: there is no DELETE function in maxVUE. Copy To copy to the clipboard you would first click on the selected object then click on the “Copy” tool on the maxVUE toolbar. The copy function is also available from the Edit menu.

Paste To paste from the clipboard you would click on the “Paste” tool on the maxVUE toolbar. The paste function is also available from the Edit menu. Print This will automatically print the file to the pre-defined local or network printer. The standard Windows print pop-up will allow the selection of printers, ranges, and number of copies.

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Help Clicking on this tool icon will display the standard Windows NT Help popup.


Layers Will display the Edit Layers and Control Order pop-up of the selected file. You may select objects from the folders and use standard maxVUE editing features to edit the objects, groups, and contents of the folders. Grid ON/OFF

Occasionally you may want to precisely align objects on the screen. maxVUE helps you do this by creating a grid of vertical and horizontal lines. To toggle this function, click on the Grid ON/OFF button on the maxVUE toolbar. A specific X, Y grid spacing may be entered via the Display Properties form. In this way the grid may be set to match exactly the desired resolution.

Snap The Snap feature allows you to make any designated point automatically jump to the closest grid point. This helps you line up such items as graphic shapes, and columns of text. It is also helpful in creating identical shapes and placing them uniformly on the screen.

Display Properties

Allows you to select the display background color, grid dimensions, position, size, and display type. It also allows you specify if it is to be Zoomable and to select a specific Horizontal or Vertical Toolbar to be used on the display.

Select Click on the “Select” tool icon then click on an object to select it. Once selected you can move, copy, change size, etc. After selecting the object, you can also right-click to display its properties or use the group features from the cascading context menu to further edit the object.


Rectangle

Filled Rectangle

You can draw either unfilled or filled rectangles or squares by clicking one of the “Rectangle” buttons. To draw your rectangle, click and drag to the shape you want. When you release the mouse button, your rectangle or square is placed on the screen. Rectangles and squares can be outlined and/or filled. Their outline width is taken from the last line you drew. The outline, line width, line color, and fill color can also be selected via the rectangle property sheet. Rectangles can also be made to appear raised or inset via the property sheet selection. The raised/inset border width is derived from the line thickness property. The filled icon presets the filled property to speed drawing but otherwise both are identical. Ellipse


Filled Ellipse

You can draw either unfilled ellipses or circles by clicking the “Ellipse” button. To draw your ellipse, click and drag to the shape you want. When you release the mouse button, your ellipse or square is placed on the screen. Ellipses and circles can be outlined and/or filled. Their outline width is taken from the last line you drew. The outline, line width, line color, and fill color can also be selected via the ellipse property sheet. Ellipses can also be made to appear raised or inset via the property sheet selection. The raised/inset border width is derived from the line thickness property. The filled icon presets the filled property to speed drawing but otherwise both are identical.

Line

The “Line” tool lets you draw straight lines. Your lines can be tilted at any angle, or you may make them horizontal and vertical. The Line tool can be selected by clicking the icon. The line thickness you choose here also affects any ellipses, rectangles, and polygon objects you might draw later. To draw a straight line, you must drag your mouse. Don’t click one point then click another because that on’t draw anything. The line width and line colors can also be selected via the line property sheet. Polygon

You can make irregularly shaped polygons with the “Polygon” tool. Like rectangles and ellipses, polygons can be outlined and/or filled. Their outline idth is taken from the last line you drew. The outline, line width, line color, and fill color can be selected via the property sheet. Polygons may be filled b selecting either Winding or Alternate mode To start a polygon, click and drag to create a line. You can make this line vertical, horizontal, or diagonal. After the first line is drawn, you can click once to add more lines to the first one. Add as many lines, as you want. To finish the polygon you double-click the last point and maxVUE will close the endpoints of your polygon together for you. Right-clicking brings up a pop-up menu and the ability to select the polygon’s property sheet for line width and color changes.


Text H U M click A N M A C H I N I N T E R F A C E

You can place text on your display by clicking on this button. To draw text, and drag to create a focus rectangle. When you release the button, your text rectangle is placed on the screen. You may enter your own text and associated Font information via the Text property sheet. The text rectangle may be filled or unfilled and text color is changed via the Line color property sheet. Bitmap

You can place a bitmap (bmp or .wmf file) on your display by clicking on this button. When you click this button, you will be presented with the “File Open” dialog from hich you may select the desired file. After you have selected the file, click and drag to create a focus rectangle. When you release the mouse button, your bitmap is drawn on the screen. You may select the "Not filled" property for bitmap files to display their background in transparent mode. Although you may navigate anywhere to select a bitmap, if it is not in a standard location, you will be prompted to save it to a standard location.

OLE Animator Clicking on this button opens the Animators toolbar if it is not already open. The Animators toolbar allows you to select OLE Controls to be placed on your display. Due to a programming anomaly, the button will remain depressed and the cursor will change to crosshairs. To release the button and return the cursor to normal just click on the select button.

Browse Configuration


T the maxVUE Graphical Configurator is another function of the maxVUE editor. The Browse Configuration button will bring up the Browse Configuration window that allows you to choose the HID to view and/or edit using the maxVUE Graphical Configurator function.

Alternate Language Dialog The Alternate language Dialog button will allow you to defined the alternate language text corresponding to the English text defined on the current display.

Test Alternate Language (red)

Test Mode (blue)

Once you have created a display and configured the OLE Controls with system points, you may click this button to test your display using the selected alternate language. You will be shown the display, as it will appear in the Run-time environment. If the test Alternate Language button is used the English text previously defined by the Alternate Language Dialog will be substituted with the alternate language set.

World View You may click this button to return to normal magnification mode where the display is scaled to show the complete screen within the area surrounded by the editor toolbars etc. Zoom In

As you might suspect, the “Zoom In” tool gives you a close-up look at your object Each click on the Zoom In button on the maxVUE toolbar will increase the magnification factor by one level. You can continue to work on your object while it’s magnified. This allows you to do some fine-tuning to the details of your object. Zoom Out To zoom out, click on the “Zoom Out” button on the maxVUE toolbar. maxVUE will decrease the magnification factor by one level for each click .


Pan By default when you open a display file or create a new display, you are shown a thumbnail dialog that presents a 'thumbnail' view of your display. This button allows you to close the thumbnail if it is up, or open the thumbnail i you have closed it. You may rubber band an area of the thumbnail as an alternate method of zooming in and out on your display. Runtime Size The Runtime Size button allows the user to view his display in its runtime size. Scroll bars are added to allow for scrolling to parts of the screen that would not otherwise be visible due to the space occupied by the editor toolbars etc. Runtime Size Mode will NOT be maintained through any user action that changes the viewing scale or the size of the maxVUE Editor View window.

The Animator Tool Bar The Animator Tool Bar displays the current OCX Controls buttons that have been registered for use by MAXDNA. In addition customized Control added and correctly registered will added to the Animator Tool Bar for use. After you have selected a control, click one of the control buttons and drag it to create a focus rectangle. When you release the button, your control is drawn on the screen. Controls have property sheets that allow you to set their attributes.


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Show All These are the current OCX controls. Some of these are defined below. New controls may be added as needed by Metso Automation. maxSCRIPT Control

The maxSCRIPT Control Button will implement programming language for simple calculations/logic. One or more instances of this control may be placed onto any maxVUE graphic. Time/State Control

The Time/State Control add the capability to display AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) and BMP (Bitmap) files based on state that represents a value obtained from the real time system. It will also have the capability to display up to four live data values in any of its views four corners: upper left, upper right, lower left, and lower right.


List Control

The Multi-Column List Control will provide the capability to display tabular textual and numeric information. Primarily intended to show Variable and Tagname attribute information but this control will be capable of displaying general text and any real time data. It will provide for basic list processing capability found in standard Windows list controls, plus provide customization options to allow user selection and control of all the control’s attributes. Bar Chart Control

The Bar Control will provide the bar graph capability by displaying a scaled bitmap which represents a value obtained from the real time system. This control also provides support for elliptical regions, which will be used in filling tanks etc. Button Control

The OLE Button Control provides the basic push button capabilities. It will also be customized to perform additional processing such as writing data to the Software Back Plane and changing the appearance of the button according to a specific Boolean expression.


Trend Wrapper Control The Trend Wrapper Control is an OCX compliant Microsoft Windows control (created in Visual Basic) that uses the MAXDNA Core Trend Control as a base and adds on-line editing capabilities for the operator/technician. It is primarily used as trend wrapper example for customers to use. However the Trend Wrapper Control is a fully functional trend control that displays a time-based series of data (maximum of 8 traces) and provides for on-line editing capabilities. Text State Control The Text State control provides the ability to display text and color that varies depending on the state of a point attribute. The control evaluates the state against predefined criteria and displays the first state that evaluates as “True”. The relationships which can be tested include >, <, =, >=, <=, !=, and BOOL (T/F). Note that “!=” means “Not Equal”. Single Point Control The Single Point Value control will display a single point attribute value. It includes the ability to blink the value. This control will be similar in functionality to a special case of the List Control showing only one cell of live data.


Core Trend Control

The Core Trend Control is an OCX compliant Microsoft Windows control that is used to display a time-based series of data. This control provides the base (core) for trending and is primarily to be used in conjunction with a wrapper. The customer can create or customize a wrapper to suite specific process applications. The primary purpose is to quickly allow an operator to evaluate the state of the process in order to take corrective actions if necessary to protect the process. A secondary purpose is to allow the engineer to analyze the dynamics of the process in order to suggest process modification in order to increase efficiency, throughput, or safety. Alarm Summary Control

The Alarm Summary Control displays a list of alarms based on Alarm Summary F il ter s (includes Al arm Summary H I D F il ter and Al arm Summar Qualifier ). The Alarm Summary Control is automatically loaded on the Animator Tool Bar. Alarm List Control

The Alarm List Control displays the top alarms based on Alarm L ist F il ter (includes Alarm List HI D F ilters and Al arm L ist Quali fi er ). The Alarm List Control is automatically loaded on the Animator Tool Bar.


The maxVUE Pull Down Menus. maxVUE Editor’s Menu Files

Files pull down Menu.

There are several other options under the pull down menus that are not included in the maxVUE Tool Bar. The Close, Save-As, and Print Preview could be quite useful in some situations. In addition, the most recently used list at the bottom of the File drop down menu will list the last screens you worked on.

Edit

Edit pull down Menu.

Additional menu options like Undo, Redo, and Paste Special are found in the Edit menu.

View

View pull down Menu.

Through the View pull down menu you can toggle the Toolbar and Status bar you can also call up the Manage Controls Toolbar.

Manage Controls Toolbar This popup window allows you to specify which controls and in what order the controls are seen in the normal “N” and the extended, ALL “X” view of the Controls Toolbar. Clicking on the selection successively rotates through the three options of none, normal and extended.

Window

Windows pull down Menu.

Apart from icon control and cascading or tile window management, the Windows cascading context menu provides for easy navigation between existing opened displays.

Help

Help pull down Menu.

The Help Topics and About maxVUE options are also available from the pull down menu.

The Status Bar maxVUE Status Bar.

The Status Bar will show the current target group you are working with. It also shows help text for maxVUE Tool Bar buttons and menu items.

The Display View

maxVUE Editor Display View.

The Thumbnail Tool

The Thumbnail Tool Display.

This will provide a thumbnail of the entire screen. You can zoom in/out and also perform screen area selection by clicking within the thumbnail.


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maxVUE Editor

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