Advanced Tab

The Advanced tab contains further properties to configure the window's behavior at run time. Show picture

Beep

The beep option generates a "beep" every few seconds on the PC's speaker whilst the window is open thus alerting the user to its presence. The beep is only generated if an enabling bit variable is selected and its value matches the selected state.

Screen Resolution

The property Design Screen Resolution is used to scale mimics automatically to appear in their original physical size when a project is run on a PC with a different screen resolution to that for which the mimics were originally designed.

It is typically used when an old project is moved to a new platform (in terms of PC specification, operating system and/or version of PcVue) that has a screen with a higher resolution than the original.

Option	Meaning
Design screen resolution	The screen resolution for which the mimic was designed. The drop down list box contains the commonly supported resolutions up to 2560 x 1600.
Current screen resolution	The screen resolution of the PC on which the project containing the mimic is running. If the PC has more than one screen, the resolution of the primary screen is used.

This is best illustrated by an example. The following mimic was developed on a PC with a screen resolution of 800 x 600. At run time, on the original PC, it may have looked like this. Show picture

If the project is then run on a PC with a screen with a resolution of 1024 x 768, the same mimic would look like this. Show picture

Note that PcVue’s workspace has been sized to fit the whole screen.

In this example, to scale the mimic automatically so that it fits the whole screen again:

1. Select the window and open its Window Properties dialog to show the Advanced tab.
2. Change the option Design Screen Resolution to 800x 600.

The mimic will then look like this. Show picture