Catapult Software - Menu for iFIX
A complete navigation system for Proficy iFIX
Navigation using Menu for iFIX is immediately intuitive to any Microsoft user, with familiar functions like “Back”, “Forward”, Favorites” and “Home” as standard. Users can add navigation links to standard iFIX functions, for example Workspace configure, Database Manager and Mission Control. They can also include standard iFIX operations, for example alarm horn on/off, login and print picture. Menus can even be configured to run VBA scripts. On top of all of these functions, users can add navigation to any of the iFIX pictures in their system.
Menu for iFIX even provides automatic picture inclusion, so new pictures can be immediately and automatically added into just the right place in the menu.
Menu for iFIX provides common Windows and Internet navigation functions that are instantly familiar:
- Back - Recalls previously displayed picture or pictures
- Forward - Returns after using ‘Back’
- Home - Displays your chosen home or start-up picture
- Favorites - Lets each user add/organize quick access to their personal favorite displays
| Acknowledge picture |
Exit workspace |
Open picture group |
| Alarm horn toggle |
Login/Logout |
Print picture |
| Alarm horn silence |
Mission control |
Shutdown iPower |
| Close picture |
Operator message |
Switch to configure |
| Database manager |
Open picture |
VBA script |
Active X Control
Menu for iFIX is an ActiveX Control inserted into an iFIX picture during configure mode in the iFIX Workspace. The menu is delivered with useful default settings, but is easily configured:
Multi-tier Menus
Any top level menu can have multiple levels of nested sub-menus:
Automatic Picture Insertion
You can configure Menu for iFIX to automatically include any new pictures into the appropriate location in your menu structure. Different types of pictures can be easily directed into different menus or sub-menus, based simply on how you name them. It is easy to set up, 100% flexible and completely automatic.
Run VBA
Configure menus and sub-menus to trigger your VBA scripts
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