Changing The Ac Tive Com Mon Win Dow - Maple Systems Silver Plus Series Installation And Operation Manual

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Changing the Ac tive Com mon Win dow

Although only one common window can be on the OIT display at one time, you do have the ability to create
multiple common windows by using base windows as common windows. Then, with the help of a Function Key
object, the OIT operator can change the active common window.
The ability to change the common window adds more flexibility to your project should you need it. For example,
you may have a series of full screen windows which all need a keypad for entry. Another series of full screen
windows may require a common alarm message. By changing the common window with each series of windows,
you can customize each common window to contain only the graphics objects that are needed.
To change the active common window
1. Create a common window.
2. Create a base window that is full screen. This will be used as another common window.
Note that when a base window is used as a common window, the Start Pos:, Style, Frame,
and Background settings are ignored by the OIT. For this example, let's use Window#30 as
the alternate common window.
3. Create another full screen base window that can be displayed along with the common
windows, (such as a startup window). Let's use Window#10, the initial window, for our
example.
4. On Window#10, create a Function Key object that is used to change the common window.
From the Objects menu, click Function Key. The New Function Key Object dialog box
appears.
5. On the General tab, select the Change Common Window option button.
6. In the same frame, select 30 from the Window no drop down menu.
7. Click the Shape tab. Click Use Shape.... and then click on the Shape Library... command.
Select Shape#19 from the button1 library. Click OK to return to the Create Function Key
Object dialog box.
8. Click the Label tab. Click the Use label checkbox.
9. For our example, type CCW (meaning Change Common Window) into the Content box.
Click OK to exit the Create Function Key Object dialog box and go back to the EasyBuilder
main screen.
10. Place the new Function Key object somewhere on Window #10.
Below is an illustration of what the default common window, Window#30 (alternate common window), and
Window#10 (startup window) might look like:
Default Common
(objects such as circles, lines, rectangles, etc.). Therefore, a Set Word object on a base
window will cover a Rectangle object on a common window which occupies the same
space even with the Above base screen attribute enabled.
Window #30
121
Window #10
1010-1007, Rev 05