General Parameters

The citect.ini file contains the following general parameters:

• [General]AdvancedDDEPoll - The rate at which CitectSCADA polls I/O devices for data requested by another application (using DDE).
• [General]BadOptimise - Obsolete in version 7.0.
• [General]BufferIO - The size of the compiler's file buffer.
• [General]CheckAddressBoundary - Determines whether the compiler checks for correctly-aligned I/O device variables.
• [General]CitectRunningCheck - Obsolete in version 7.0.
• [General]Ctl3D - Determines whether dialog boxes in the runtime system display with a three-dimensional effect.
• [General]DeadlockTimeout - Specifies the number of seconds to wait before await on an event is considered timed-out.
• [General]DeadlockWarning - Specifies whether an error message is displayed if a time-out occurs.
• [General]DebugInfo - Determines whether symbolic information is included in the compiled Cicode. This controls whether Cicode can be debugged or not.
• [General]DisablePlotSetupForm - Determines whether the Plot Setup form displays when the TrnPrint() function is used.
• [General]DisableRemoteBlocking - Disables blocking on a remote I/O device.
• [General]FormatCheck - Determines whether alarm values are truncated when they are longer than the field in which they are to display.
• [General]InfoDestroy - Determines whether the VARIABLE.DBF file is closed automatically after a call to the DspInfoField() function.
• [General]LockDelay - Sets the time delay in millisecond between file operation retries.
• [General]LockRetry - The number of times to retry an operation that does not succeed because a file is locked.
• [General]LongFilename - Enables long filename support for CitectSCADA projects, pages, and filenames.
• [General]Multiprocess - Detemines whether CitectSCADA runs as a multi-process or single-process application.
• [General]OSErrors - Enables/disables CitectSCADA trapping of Operating System errors.
• [General]PasswordExpiry - Determines how long your user and operator passwords will take to expire.
• [General]PointCountHigh - The percentage figure at which the first watermark message will be displayed.
• [General]PointCountHighHigh - The percentage figure at which the second watermark message will be displayed.
• [General]PointLimitMsg - Determines whether CitectSCADA will shutdown when the I/O point limit is exceeded.
• [General]PrinterColourMode - Determines the default setting (black & white, or color) for trends printed using the TrnPrint() function.
• [General]RegionalNumbersFormat - Determines how CitectSCADA outputs data containing decimal numbers.
• [General]ServerMonitoringPeriod - Defines how often a Alarm Client will send an additional transaction to its server.
• [General]ShareFiles - Enables/disables the opening of projects by the compiler in Shared Mode.
• [General]ShowDriverError - Determines whether an error dialog displays when an internal driver error occurs.
• [General]Stack - The size of the CitectSCADA general-purpose stack.
• [General]StartDelay - Delays the startup of CitectSCADA for a specified period.
• [General]SymbolicInfo - Enables/disables AN help information.
• [General]TagAssMode - Obsolete in version 7.20. Refer to [General]TagDB instead.
• [General]TagDB - Determines whether the Variable Tags database is loaded when the project is compiled.
• [General]TagStartDigit - Allows you to use tags that have a number as the first digit.
• [General]TagWriteEventFmt - Allows the formatting of writes to the TagWriteEventQue.
• [General]TagWriteEventQue - Enables/disables logging of tags from IO Devices to a queue called TagWriteEventQue
• [General]TrnPrinter - The default printer port used in the TrnPrint() function.
• [General]TypeRemapAllowed - When set the Data Type field on the form is not editable when the variable tag is linked .
• [General]Verbose - Enables/disables the display of the startup dialog box, which shows the opening runtime databases and other information.
• [General]VerboseToSysLog - Enables startup messages displayed by the Kernel in "Verbose" mode to be logged in the SYSLOG.DAT file.
• [General]WatermarkedPointCount - A flag indicating if watermarking is to be displayed for proximity to point count limits

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