OMRON GLOSSARY OF TERMS - CX-Supervisor User Manual
Release 2.0 Page 335
SVGA mode A mode of video display that provides 800 × 600 pixel resolution (or
higher) with 16 or more colours and is supported on Super Video Graphics
Adapter systems.
CX-Supervisor A SCADA software application which creates and maintains graphical user
interfaces and communicates with PLCs and other I/O mechanisms.
Target Value An ingredient must specify a target value for its related point. This is the
value to which the point will be set in runtime when the recipe is
downloaded.
Taskbar An integral part of Microsoft Windows which allows Microsoft Windows
based applications to be started. CX-Supervisor is run from the Taskbar.
Text Object In CX-Supervisor, a text object is a string on a page. Attributes such as
typeface, point size, embolden, italicise, underline, left justify, flush right,
and centre can be applied to enhance its presentation.
Text Type A type of point that holds a string.
Unicode A Multi-Byte Character Set, which not only includes European Characters
like DBCS, but can also include global support including for Japanese,
Chinese and Cyrillic fonts. However, Unicode is not supported on all
Windows platforms.
Validation Code Recipe validation code is CX-Supervisor script language which is used to
check point values before downloading a recipe.
VBScript A Visual Basic style scripting language supported by Microsoft’s
Windows Scripting Host.
VGA mode A mode of video display that provides 640 × 480 pixel resolution with 16
colours and is supported on Video Graphics Adapter systems.
Windows Desktop An integral part of Microsoft Windows which allows Microsoft Windows
based applications to be started from icons and for all applications to be
organised. CX-Supervisor can be run from Windows Desktop.
Windows Scripting Host A scripting engine supplied by Microsoft to run VBScript or JScript. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting
Wizard Wizards are dialogs used by the CX-Supervisor development environment
to take the user through complex operations in a simplified step-by-step
process.
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