Performing an Automatic NAD Update

You can start an automatic NAD update during application development.

When you run the Notify Clients command, a flag is set to notify all remote View nodes that the master application has changed. Clients can automatically start an update process based on the Change Mode option defined for each node.

The first time a standalone application (with embedded Industrial graphics) is opened on a View node, graphics may not appear and errors are logged in the Logger. To avoid this, run the Notify Clients command from the master node and the Industrial graphics will be loaded on the View node based on the Change Mode option.

To perform an automatic update

1. Open the application in WindowMaker.

2. On the Properties menu, in the Clients group:

   1. Click Notify now to notify clients immediately.

   2. Click Notify on-close, to be reminded to notify NAD clients, when WindowMaker is closed.

   Note: If the Notify on close option is selected, every time WindowMaker is closed it will verify if there are any changes from the last notification. If there are any changes, a dialog box with the prompt ‘Do you want to notify the NAD clients?’ will appear. Click Yes to notify the clients, click No to ignore the changes.