The Development Environment Graphics tab The Graphics tab of the Project Explorer contains all of the screens, screen groups, and symbols in your project. Graphics tab of the Project Explorer The folders on the Graphics tab are described on the following pages: • Screens contains all of the screens created for the current project. • Screen Group contains the entire screen groups (individual screens combined into manageable groups) created for the current project. • Web Pages contains all of the Web pages (i.e., screens saved in HTML format) created for the project. • Mobile Access allows configuration of the mini-site that is targeted to cell phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices.
• Project Symbols contains all of the user-defined symbols , which can be groups of images and/or text. You can create custom symbols for the project and save them into this folder. • Graphics Script contains predefined functions that are executed when certain screen actions occur , such as when the Thin Client is launched on a remote station. • Symbols contains the library of common symbols and graphics provided with the project. Double-click the Library icon to open the Symbol Library . • Layout displays all screens currently open in the Screen Editor and allows you to visualize how the screens fit together during runtime.
Tasks tab The Tasks tab of the Project Explorer organizes the worksheets that are processed as background tasks during project runtime. Tasks tab of the Project Explorer The folders on the Tasks tab are described on the following pages: • Alarms contains the Alarm worksheets used to configure alarm groups and the tags related to each alarm group in the project. You also use the Alarm task to define the alarm messages generated during project runtime. • Trend contains the Trend worksheets used to configure history groups that store trend curves for the project. You can use the Trend task to declare which tags must have their values stored on disk, and to create history files for trend graphs.
Your project stores the samples in a binary history file ( *.hst ), and displays both history and on-line samples in a trend graph screen. • Recipes contains the Recipe worksheets used to configure how data is exchanged between the project database and disk files in ASCII or DBF format, and how values are transferred between files and real- time memory. InduSoft Web Studio Page 63