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Overview

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Multi-Screen Engineering

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tool is also known as Multiple Document Interface (MDI)

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 MDI stands for a graphical user interface in which multiple windows reside under a single parent window.

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Quick video tutorial

How to Use

 The Multi-Screen Engineering Tool Engineering tool is available in two environments, Draw and Scripts.

New This is a new engineering environment feature that allows the user to edit multiple displays or scripts at the same time. This way makes it is possible easier to copy content between documents easily, facilitate comparison between different documents, and decrease the switching time between documents that are being edited.

It is also possible to close a document that is open in the last document bar on top of the display. 

Draw Environment

At In the Draw Editor Tab tab (Edit -Draw-Drawing), you should see the MDI enable button at in the toolbar located on the top of the display.

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If the button is not available, close the current Project, make sure a WebServer application in is running, and launch the Project again.

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Once this button is clicked, a child window will be opened and the Page will enter a locked state.

MDI Enable in Draw Environment.


Child Display for Draw Editor.


In Edit -Displays-Displays you can see which Users are editing a page.

User Control for Draw Editor.


Scripts Environment 

At the Scripts Environment (Edit -Scripts-Tasks/Classes) you should see the MDI enable button at the toolbar located on the top of the display.

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If the button is not available, close the current Project, make sure a WebServer application in running and launch the Project again.

MDI Enable in Scripts Environment.

 

Once this button is clicked, a child window will be opened with the Code Editor Environment.

Child Display for Code Editor.


In Edit -Scripts-Tasks/Classes you can see which Users are editing a page.

User Control for Code Editor.


Switch Between Documents

On the Project Header Bar you can easily navigate through the last opened pages and code editors.

This feature provides easy access to the recently used information, enhancing user experience and improving the workflow.

Navigation Bar.