Integration

QuickPanel application development uses standard CIMPLICITY Machine Edition tools and editors, including:

The Panel Editor, with both a "drawing grid" and a "tiling grid" (for aligning QuickPanel graphical objects with the panel display's touch cell matrix).

The Toolchest, for creating templates (or "fxClasses") of graphical object collections, scripts, alarm groups, message groups, and panels. You can even share graphical fxClasses between Windows NT/CE targets and QuickPanel targets, as long as the fxPart uses simple graphical objects common to both.

The Languages grid for projects in multiple languages.

Importing Existing QuickDesigner applications

Experienced HMI developers may have existing QuickPanel projects created in QuickDesigner. You can import existing QuickDesigner projects into View, either from a QuickDesigner project file or (in some cases) directly from a QuickPanel unit.

Basic scripting support

Scripts are short, user-defined executable programs composed of sequences of instructions. Scripts in QuickPanel targets can draw items on the QuickPanel display or monitor, control, and modify project data. All scripts on QuickPanel targets are written in QPScript, a simple scripting language based loosely on D-Script. You edit QPScript scripts in the View Script Editor, just like other HMI scripts. Scripts can be configured to run periodically, or they can be triggered when a specified condition occurs.

Grid editors

The appearance of Local Message Display, Triggered Message Display, and Local Image Display graphical objects depends on the values of associated variables. In CIMPLICITY View, you can edit the list of conditions and associated appearance attributes (collectively known as "message groups) in intuitive, easy-to-use grid editors. Similar grid editors are used throughout QuickPanel applications, such as when editing alarm groups, Selector Switches, and Trend displays.

Support for standard QuickPanel graphical objects

On QuickPanel targets, View supports the standard set of QuickPanel graphical objects listed below. Interactive graphical objects (such as Alarm Windows and Push Buttons) also have a 3D appearance for improved usability. 
 

Alarm Window Analog Meter Arc Wedge ASCII Data Entry Bar Graph Image (bitmap) Circle/Ellipse Goto Button Illuminated Push Button Legend Plate Line Local Image Display Local Message Display Numeric Data Display

Numeric Data Entry Polygon Polyline Print Button Push Button Rectangle Round Rectangle Selector Switch Text Text Data Display Time/Date Display Trend Display Triggered Message Display Word Button

Support for standard QuickPanel features

CIMPLICITY View supports the following standard QuickPanel features:
Password security: Restrict access to specific panels to operators with a specified security level.

Optional attached keypad: Configure actions for keystrokes on an attached keypad.

Alarms: Configure bit alarms and word alarms with an intuitive spreadsheet-like editor.

Message groups: Easily configure sets of variable values and associated messages or images for Local Message Displays, Local Image Displays, and Triggered Message Displays.

Compact Flash transfers: Copy QuickPanel 4 application runtime files to Compact Flash (CF) cards for later transfer to a QuickPanel unit.

GE Fanuc PLC target integration

If you're using Logic Developer-PLC to program GE Fanuc PLCs, you can use variables defined in Logic Developer - PLC in your QuickPanel application directly. To use this feature, both the GE Fanuc PLC target and the QuickPanel target must be in the same project. You must also add and configure a PLC Access driver in the QuickPanel target to be used for communications between the two units.
You can then select and use variables belonging to the PLC target the same way you would any other variable on the QuickPanel target. For example, you can drag a variable reference from a Logic Developer - PLC editor into a QuickPanel panel to automatically create a Numeric Data Display.

QuickPanel Models Supported

View supports all QuickPanel 3 and QuickPanel 4 models and a selection of QuickPanel 2 models. The complete list of models supported includes:
10.5"Color (QPI-3xxxx)
9"EL Mono (QPI-3xxxx)
jr. 6"Color (QPK-3xxxx)
jr. 6"Mono (QPK-3xxxx)
jr. 6"STN Color (QPK-3xxxx)
Mini 6"Blue-Mono (QPM-3xxxx)
7.4"TFT Color (QPGCxxxxxxx)
10.5"TFT Color (QPICxxxxxxx)
12.1"TFT Color (QPICxxxxxxx)
10.5"Monochrome (QPI-2xxxx)
jr 5"QPJ Color (QPI-2xxxx)
jr 5"QPJ Monochrome (QPI-2xxxx)

Drivers support

QuickPanel targets support a wide variety of PLC Access drivers, which let QuickPanel applications communicate with industrial PLCs. The current list of drivers supported includes the following (additional drivers will be released over the next few months via Service Packs):
Allen-Bradley ControlLogix
Allen-Bradley DH485
Allen-Bradley DHPlus
Allen-Bradley Remote I/O
Allen-Bradley SLC500 DF1
Allen-Bradley TCP/IP (QuickPanel 4 models only)
GE Genius
GE SNP
GE SNP-X
GE Fanuc TCP/IP (QuickPanel 4 models only)
Modbus
Modbus TCP/IP (QuickPanel 4 models only)
Profibus DP
Uni-Telway