The Development Environment You can deploy your project as a web application to be accessed by thin clients such as desktop web browsers, tablets, and smartphones. You can even deploy different versions of your project with different levels of functionality for each type of client. Project Symbols This folder contains all of the custom symbols that you create for your project. A symbol is a group of interconnected screen objects that work together to perform a single function — for example, lines, rectangles, and text fragments that have been arranged to make a slider control.
Graphics Script You can use this worksheet to define VBScript sub-routines that are called only when the graphics module starts (i.e., when a client station connects to the server and displays the graphical interface), while it is running, and when it ends. Native Symbols This folder is a library of the symbols that are created with the native graphics tools in Studio. It contains not only the custom symbols that you create (see Project Symbols above), but also a large selection of premade symbols that are installed with Studio.
Industrial Graphics Symbols This folder is a library of the symbols that are created with the Industrial Graphics editor, which works as a companion to the native graphics tools in Studio. Layout The layout editor displays all of the screens the are currently open for editing. You can use it to visualize how the screens are arranged together and reuse screens in multiple layouts — for example, to create a common navigation bar across your entire project. Tasks tab The Tasks tab of the Project Explorer organizes the worksheets that are processed as background tasks (i.e., server-based maintenance tasks that are not directly related to screen operations or device I/O) during project runtime.
Tasks tab of the Project Explorer The folders on the Tasks tab are described in the following sections: Page 38