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WindowMaker provides graphic tools, a scripting language, and tag management utilities to define the behavior of objects that appear in your application’s windows. Using WindowMaker, you can create tags that represent data points associated with window objects. Data from a manufacturing process is ultimately associated as a tag value. This tag data can be used in your application for alarm monitoring, creating trends, and determining how the application behaves during run time.

The following figure shows some of WindowMaker’s tools to create InTouch HMI applications.

You can use a wide variety of graphic tools that range from simple shapes that can be combined to create more complex objects to standard Industrial Graphics with predefined properties. You can create different types of scripts based upon their triggering mechanism. You can also insert predefined InTouch functions into your scripts. You can define a variety of tag value thresholds with the Tagname Dictionary that determines when a tag is in a normal or an alarmed state.