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CHAPTER 15 – Connecting to a remote CX-Supervisor application
Creating a CX-Supervisor Client application
The client must retrieve the data, and process it. To create your application:
♦ Add any elements required by the Client application e.g. Graphics, Control, Logging,
Alarms etc.
♦ Configure DCOM on the client machine, to allow access from the server machines. See
Appendix A for further details.
♦ Create points for every data value required by the Client application following these steps:
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1.
Start CX-Supervisor Development and open your application, or start a new
application.
2.
Open the Point Editor by selecting the Point Editor option from the Utilities
menu or by clicking the toolbar button.
3.
In the Point Editor dialog click the Add Point button in the toolbar to open the
Add Point dialog.
4.
In the Add Point dialog move to the I/O Type: options and select the Input,
Output or Input / Output option as appropriate. Note that the I/O Update Rate:
and I/O Attributes: options and displayed.
5.
In the I/O Attributes: options select OPC/Other and click the Setup button.
This will open the Communications Control Attributes dialog.
6.
In the Communications Control Attributes dialog enter the appropriate
parameters as follows:
Communications Control Attributes
Server: This shows the name of the communications object to connect to the
server i.e. OMRONCXSupervisorCommunicationsControl. If you wish to use a
different object make your selection from the drop down list. To Add, Modify
or Delete an object click the Info button.
Selecting the Add option will open the Communications Control dialog. From
the list of control objects select 'OMRON CX-Supervisor Communications
OMRON
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