Installation and Commissioning

RobView 3.1In addition, also a button can be linked to variables or I/O in the robot and made tochange its bitmap picture, the colour of the text or become invisible, dependent on thevalue in the robot.GridA grid can be connected to both complex variables or arrays. It will dynamicallyupdated the data field displaying the value of a robot variable, and has the ability to editthe value and send it back to the robot.The user can define grids in any view. It is easy to set the size of the grid from the Gridproperty page. You may also define column and row header texts.The user-input on a grid can be protected, so that only qualified users are allowed tochange data in the robot.IconThe icon control is used for drawing a picture on any of the views. The picture files aretypically bitmap files (.bmp) or icon (.ico) files that you for example have preparedwith the Windows Paint application, or have exported from some other drawingprogram. The icon can be linked to a variable or digital I/O in the robot and made tochange picture or become invisible dependent on the value of the robot variable.Hot-SpotSelect the Hot-spot control to draw a hot-spot in any of the views. It is usually placedon top of other controls (e.g. Icon), to make RobView change view when you click onthe hot-spot. The hot-spot is invisible in run mode.Peripheral equipmentThe user defined controls can also be linked to signals in peripheral equipment. Thiscan be done in two ways: 1) By using spare I/O in the robot where signals from theperipheral equipment are connected so that RobView can reach them or 2) by using adedicated DDE Server if one is available for the equipment in question, so thatRobView can connect to the variables of that DDE Server and in this way be able tocontrol and monitor the external equipment.Multiple robotsRobView can be supplied with support for one or multiple robots. For use with onerobot, the robot is connected directly to the serial port in the PC.If the robots are equipped with a network option, they can be connected directly byethernet to the networked PC.Product Specification RobotWare for BaseWare OS 3.1 71