Knowledge Base

PcVue treats a PC with multiple screens as one large screen. To open a mimic on a particular screen you have to configure the number of regions, each region corresponding to a screen. You can then request that a mimic is opened in a position relative to a particular region (screen). Mimics opened from a Link Open animation will open in the same region as the caller window.

Configuring PcVue to use multiple regions

There are two configuration changes requred.

1. In the Regions tab of the Workspace Properties dialog.
   1. Right click anywhere in the workspace and, from the context menu, select Workspace Properties
   2. In the Regions tab select Region System – System with two regions and Resolution – Workspace.
      
2. In the the HMI Properties dialog.
   1. Open the HMI Properties dialog using the Menu command Configure.HMI Properties.
   2. Navigate to the Regions section and select Advanced mode and Multi open capability of the same mimic.
      

Starting PcVue with two mimics

The project needs to start up displaying two mimics, one in each region, each behaving as the root mimic for navigation in its region. The simplest way to do this is to use a SCADA Basic script configured to run at startup. The script might look something like this:

Sub Main()

Region(“SETREGION”, 1);
Window(“OPEN”, “syno1”, “” );
Region(“SETREGION”, 2);
Window(“OPEN”, “syno2”, “” );

End Sub

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