Alpha Marquee ActiveX Control
Overview
Alpha Marquee ActiveX Control is a toolkit for programmers -- a set of programming utilities to simplify the creation of software programs that communicate between business applications and Alpha message centers.
Any application that supports the use of ActiveX controls can be interfaced easily to Alpha message centers using Alpha Marquee ActiveX Control. Such ActiveX applications include:
- Manufacturing
software with Human Machine Interfaces (HMI)
- Business applications, including Microsoft Excel
- Development environments, including Visual Basic and Visual C++
Includes tools to trigger messages, alarms and display real-time information.
Easy to install and configure. New and existing software applications can be modified to include the Alpha marquee driver in minutes.
Communicates with Alpha message centers via LAN and TCP/IP or via most Serial COM Port protocols.
Features
- Display
real-time production statistics.
- Broadcast
event and alarm conditions.
- Control
text attributes such as color, font, flashing, etc.
- Display
your existing database messages.
- All
options can be set programmatically at run time.
- Ethernet LAN and TCP/IP supported.
- Serial
communication protocols supported.
- Easy to install and use.
- Initializes the network connection and the display
ChangeMode:
- Changes the current operational mode of the display (Statistics vs. Alarms)
Reset:
- Sends a soft reset to the display
UpdateVariable:
- Updates a variable field on the display
QuickDisplay:
- Sends a text string to the display desired
AlarmAdd:
- Adds an alarm to the control's alarm queue
AlarmAck/AlarmAck All:
- Removes
one or all alarms from the control's alarm queue