Opening Screens as Maps

Introduction

Hello and welcome to a new guide on how to best use Movicon.NExT..

In this technote, we will put together an example to show you how to open a screen as a map.

Maps in Movicon.NExT

Movicon.NExT offers the option to startup projects using a geographic map which is called a Geo Page. To start our example on how to do this, open the Movicon.NExT editor and create, or load, a project, then:

• Select the name of the project from the application tree.
• Open its Properties window and enter the coordinates of a point in the Startup Latitude Pos. and Startup Longitude Pos. field found in the GeoScada property section.  Please be reminded that the coordinates must be expressed in degrees, first and second, that is in the XXX° YY’ ZZ’’ format.
• Change the Startup Page Type property by selecting the GeoPage option.

When starting up the project in runtime, the application will display the map at the coordinates specified beforehand.
The maps can be used as screens and be opened by using a predefined command offered by the platform and associated to a button.
This guide will show you how this is done by using another example.

Example

Creating the synoptic

After having started up the Movicon.NExT editor and created, or loaded, a project, create the Main screen in this way::

• Look for the Screens resource in the project's tree structure in the Project Explorer window and select it..
• Right-click it and select the New option from the menu which opens.
• A New Screen popup will appear through which you can set the screen's main properties. Configure the screen as follows:
• • Width: 1920
  • Height: 1080
  • Name: Main
• Click the OK button to confirm the configuration.

Once the screen has been created, you can then change the project's properties by inserting the screen as the project's Main screen which will show when the project starts up. To do this:

• Select the name of the project from the application's tree structure.
• Open the Properties window.
• Change the following project properties in this way:
• • Startup Page Type: Main Screen
  • Startup Screen Name: Main

Once you have finished configuring the project startup page, click on the Save All icon located on the Movicon.NExT  editor’s toolbar at the top to save the project.

Make sure that the Main screen is open, click on the Toolbox tab on the editor’s far right, next to the properties window, to open the Toolbox library offered by Movicon.NExT.
Go to the Buttons folder and open the Standard subfolder and select and drag the Standard Metro Style button onto the screen.
Once placed on screen, open its Properties window and insert the Map string in its Text property.  Select the button and click on the Commands tab at the bottom of the Movicon.NExT editor’s window. Find and select the Open Map command to insert it on the Commands List associated to the button and keep its default configuration as it is.

Save the project by clicking on the Save All icon located on the Movicon.NExT editor’s toolbar at the top.  

Test Runtime

Launch the project into runtime by clicking on the Start Runtme button on the toolbar to run a test to see if everything that you have created so far works. By clicking on the Map button to activate it, the map should display at the coordinates you predefined in the initial project settings.