The Basic Control Engine combines the power of the CIMPLICITY event handler with a Visual Basic™ compliant language, allowing you to script and program applications and routines from the simple to the complex.
The Basic Control Engine consists of three main components.
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Event Editor |
Provides the tools to defines actions to take in response to events that occur in a process. An event can be a changing point, alarm state, or even a particular time of day. One event may invoke multiple actions, or one action may be invoked by many events. |
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Program Editor |
Provides a set of sophisticated development tools that let you create programs with a Visual Basic compliant programming language. These programs can then be executed as actions in response to events. The programming language has a rich set of nearly 500 standard Basic functions, and also provides an object interface to CIMPLICITY points, alarms, and the Status Logger, further enriching the language. |
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Basic Control Engine |
Monitors for events and executes the configured actions. The Basic Control Engine is based on a multi-threaded design that allows the system to invoke and execute multiple Visual Basic programs concurrently. |