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1 Introduction
1.1 ADAMView Overview
Congratulations on your purchase of ADVANTECH’S application builder for data acquisition and
control — ADAMView.
ADAMView is a comprehensive application development tool for data acquisition and control. It supports
functions and utilities to develop automation applications for use in Windows 95/98 and Windows NT
Windows 2000/XP environments. ADAMView provides an icon-based, mouse driven system for designing
real-time Autoimation and Control Strategies, System Monitor Displays, and Dynamic Operator Displays.
The magic of ADAMView lies in its ability to provide advanced programming features and tools while
maintaining ease of use. A library of Icon Blocks representing data acquisition and control, math-
ematical and control functions is provided through Task Designer. You simply arrange Icon blocks into
a strategy, connect them, and then draw your dynamic display or configure your daily report. Display
Designer provides a variety of graphic objects to design monitoring and control displays. Report
Designer features a configurable format design utility and scheduler to generate reports automatically.
In addition to the features listed above, ADAMView’s built-in VBA compatible programming tools
strengthen its ability to perform complex calculation or analysis.
The ADAMView package consists of two major software modules and several utility programs. The two
major executables are ADAMView Strategy Editor/Runner (“ADAMView.exe”), and ADAMView Runtime
only program (“ADAMViewRun.exe”). ADAMView.exe is for designing and testing Strategies.
ADAMViewRun.exe is for running strategies in a live environment. ADAMViewRun.exe uses fewer
resources and achieves better runtime performance because it does not perform validity checks on
objects and links between objects. It does not allow any changes to be made to the strategy being run.
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