Objects; User Interface Objects; Application Objects - ABB MicroSCADA Pro SYS 600 Technical Description

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System Overview
Technical Description
When you have written a new SCIL program you can check the syntax directly in
the editor, instead of testing your program in the tool menu and recognising a syntax
error there. Syntax errors are identified by specific error codes and their explanations
can be found in the Status Codes manual (1MRS751850-MEN). An example of a
SCIL program is shown below:
;show the trend basket dialog
!WIN_NAME FORMAT/BASKET
!WIN_BG_COLOR FORMAT/BASKET ("M",1)
!WIN_POS FORMAT/BASKET (10,15)
!WIN_PIC FORMAT/BASKET F_USE/FTU_BASKB
!SHOW FORMAT/BASKET
Predefined functions
SCIL contains a large number of powerful predefined functions for various types of
data processing. For example, the following important categories of functions are
available in SCIL:
• Arithmetical functions
• Time functions
• Database functions
• File handling functions

Objects

MicroSCADA has an object-oriented environment. An object is a programmable
entity that presents something. In MicroSCADA an object presents process units,
system functions or SCIL programs. Objects are defined by their attributes. The
following three objects types: user interface objects, application objects and system
objects, are described in this section.

User interface objects

The user interface in a MicroSCADA system is the content of the MicroSCADA
monitor. The user interface object is an object that forms an application user
interface. Pictures, Visual SCIL dialogs and dialog items are user interface objects.
They are programmed and controlled with SCIL. The user interface object types are
organised in pictures and Visual SCIL Objects. The user interface is described in
details in Section 3.6.

Application objects

Application objects are programmable units, which perform various tasks such as
real time process supervision, control procedures, data registration and storage,
calculations, automatic time and event activation. Application objects are created,
accessed, modified and deleted with SCIL and application object definition tools.
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