Menu Bar

The menu options differ depending on the selected view: Hardware Architecture, Link Architecture or Cyclic Data editor. The available options also change depending on whether the Configuration Editor is offline or online.

Toolbars

The Configuration Editor has the following toolbars:

• Main Toolbar

• View Toolbar

• Format Toolbar

Main Toolbar

The available items vary depending on whether a project is in on-line or off-line mode.

• Main toolbar in off-line mode

• Main toolbar in on-line mode

Main toolbar in off-line mode

Main toolbar in on-line mode

View Toolbar

The available items vary depending on whether the Hardware Architecture, Link Architecture or Cyclic Data view of a project is selected.

• View toolbar for the Hardware Architecture view

• View toolbar for the Link Architecture view

• View toolbar for the Cyclic Data view

View toolbar for the Hardware Architecture view

View toolbar for the Link Architecture view

View toolbar for the Cyclic Data view

Format Toolbar

The Format toolbar, only available in the hardware architecture view of a project, enables you to format text contained in project headers and annotations.

Context Menus

In comon with modern Windows applications, context menus offering various options are available throughout SYPT by right-clicking items or blank areas in the workspace. For example, the following popup menu is displayed when offline if a node is selected and the right mouse button is clicked.

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Output Window

The Output Window displays the status of program builds. It also displays information such as the reasons why nodes in a project could not be found when going online and communicating with drives.

In the following picture, the Output Window is displaying a message in the Log pane. The message is indicating that one of the nodes in the project could not be found when going online and searching for nodes.

In this picture, the Build pane of the Output Window is showing the result of building a user program.

To view the output window

• From the View menu, choose Output Window.

See Also

• Showing Build Errors

• Node Detection and Indications

Status Bar

The status bar displays the online/ offline status of the Configuration Editor together with some standard Windows indications such as Caps Lock, Num Lock and Scroll Lock.

To show or hide the status bar

• From the View menu, choose Status Bar.

The status bar appears at the bottom of the Configuration Editor.

Hardware Architecture View

The Hardware Architecture view displays the networks and nodes in a project. A PC is always shown connected to one of the networks. The PC will communicate on its attached network when going online, e.g. if the PC is drawn connected to a CTNet network, the PC will communicate over CTNet when the Configuration Editor goes online.

As an example, the following picture shows the Hardware Architecture view of a project containing two Unidrive SPs each with an SM-Applications module in slot 3. The PC will communicate with the Unidrive SPs using the CT-RTU communications protocol.

If a node or option is double-clicked, the program editor for the node will be opened. When the Configuration Editor is switched into online mode, the Hardware Architecture view shows the results of searching for nodes, e.g. it shows any new nodes detected which are not in the project. While in online mode, the Hardware Architecture view also displays indications showing which nodes are CTNet cyclic masters and which nodes are tripped.

The Hardware Architecture can also display a project header allowing the user to enter a text description for a project.

To show the Hardware Architecture view

• From the View menu, choose Hardware Architecture.

When developing an application, you can perform the following tasks in the Hardware Architecture view:

• Managing Projects

• Setting Communications

• Defining Nodes

• Defining Networks

• Inserting Annotations

• Accessing DPL Programs

• Node Detection and Indications

• Switching the Configuration Editor Online

• Adding Detected Nodes

• Defining a Project Header

See Also

• Configuration Editor

• Developing Applications