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| The file menu is primarily used to create, open, print and save new display pages. The open, save as, and print dialogs are unmodified, standard Windows dialogs which [hopefully] are already quite familiar. The New item opens up the Recall Display New Page Wizard to provide a step-by-step procedure for creating new pages. The Clone item currently allows you to pre-load the point list from an existing page into a new page wizard session. A future version may also allow you to pre-load a page's settings as well. The Workspace item allows you to save a collection of pages, including their current layout and position, thus preserving the current view exactly as-is. Also available on this menu is a list of the most recently opened pages, and the program exit command. WARNING: When running on PICS subsystems (i.e. control room displays) you should NEVER exit Recall Display because doing so will cause the computer to reboot in order to recover from what it perceives as a task failure. |
| The Clone item currently allows you to pre-load the point list from an existing page into a new page wizard session. A future version may also allow you to pre-load a page's settings as well |
| The Workspace item allows you to save a collection of pages, including their current layout and position, thus preserving the current view exactly as-is. When Recall Display first loads, it looks for a workspace named "default" and automatically loads it, if found. This allows a [relatively] unattended computer to automatically restore the desired displays in the event of a reboot. |
All recall display pages have some sort of configurable properties. However, the properties available vary across the different types of pages, for obvious reasons. The properties menu offers access to recall display's common options (like Plant Local Time, Save Settings on Exit, etc) and page-specific options, like "The 'Big X'".
| Provides access to an alpha page's property sheet, allowing selection of which columns are displayed, in what order, and more. When enabled, "The 'Big X'" feature will render a reverse video X over a page that is not receiving any live data. While this may appear valuable, one must remember that a single point in a group of fifty that is updating will prevent the X from being shown. In other words, there's no substitute for attentive operators. |
| Provides access to a graph page's property sheet, allowing adjustment of almost all parameters governing the rendering of strip graphs. This menu also has a selection to manually trigger a historical backfill for real time strips. This may be necessary when a long period strip is uncovered. And as with Alpha pages, you can also choose to have the "Big X" drawn over a graph whose data is no longer updating...along with the same considerations. |
| This relatively standard menu allows you to organize all of the open MDI child windows (alpha and graph pages) in recall display with a single command. Programmer's Note: By the way, the code determining the actual page order, size and layout is written by Microsoft, so complain to them if you don't like it. |
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