| ALPHA
Marquee ActiveX Control |
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Communicate
with your ALPHA electronic sign directly from any application
that supports the use of ActiveX controls including:
- Manufacturing Software such
as Human Machine Interfaces (HMI)
- Business Applications such
as Microsoft Excel
- Development Environments
such as Visual Basic and Visual C++
The ALPHA Marquee ActiveX Control comes
complete with everything you need to trigger messages, alarms
and display real-time information. Install, configure and use
the marquee driver in minutes. The ALPHA Marquee ActiveX
Control will communicate with any of the ALPHA electronic
signs via LAN (TCP/IP) or Serially (PC COM Port). Tek
Solutions is your authorized Alpha Distributor! |
| Features |
- Display real-time production
statistics
- Broadcast event/alarm
conditions
- Control text attributes such
as color, font, flashing, etc.
- Directly display your
existing database messages
- All options can be set
programmatically at run time
- LAN support via TCP/IP,
serial support via PC COM port
- Easy to install and use
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| Configuration
Methods |
Initialize:
- 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
- Updates a variable field on
the display
QuickDisplay
- Sends a text
string to the display desired
- Adds an alarm to the
control's alarm queue
AlarmAck/AlarmAck All
- Removes an alarm
from the control's alarm queue
- Removes all
alarms from the control's alarm queue
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