Installation and Commissioning

RobComm 3.0Following is a brief description of each ActiveX control included the RobCommtoolkit.The Helper ControlThis is the primary communication interface for RobComm. The Helper control is aninvisible control that provides methods, properties, and events to expose the entire S4communication interface.The ABB Button ControlThe ABB Button control is a derivative of the standard Windows button control. AnABB Button can be connected directly to a specific digital I/O signal in an S4 control.The Button control provides a simple way to view and modify a digital signal, and, inmost cases, can be used without adding code to your application.The display of the button can be configured via property settings to automaticallyupdate itself based on the current state of the communication link to the robot controland the state of the digital signal assigned to the button control. Optionally, you candisplay bitmaps, text strings, text colors, and/or background colors based on the signalstate (on or off). The button action can be configured to turn a signal on, turn a signaloff, toggle a signal, pulse a signal, or do nothing in response to a mouse click.The Pilot Light ControlThe Pilot Light control tracks the state of a specific digital signal. This control isconfigured via properties and requires no additional code.The display of the Pilot Light is modeled after status lamps commonly used in hardwiredoperator panels. The Pilot Light displays bitmaps to represent the on and offstates of the associated signal. The user selects the on and off colors via properties.A Caption Property is used to label the Pilot Light.When the communication link to the robot control is down, the Pilot Lightautomatically disables itself and re-enables itself when the communication link isrestored.PC System Requirements- Pentium processor.- 8 MB RAM memory minimum for Windows 95, 16 MB RAM for WindowsNT (32 MB RAM recommended).- Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0.- Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual C++, or Wonderware InTouch 7.0 (for applicationdevelopment).- 20 MB free hard disk space.- VGA compatible display (1024 x 768 recommended).Product Specification RobotWare for BaseWare OS 3.1 65