Work with InTouch tags

You start by creating an InTouch application. You define tags for the application using the Tagname Dictionary, which is a WindowMaker tool. The figure below shows the InTouch development and run-time environments.

You assign the name and type of tag with the Tagname Dictionary. For some types of tags, you have other options in the Tagname Dictionary to specify additional properties of tags. For example, I/O type tags include additional options to specify the connection to a remote data source.

InTouch applications run in the WindowViewer environment. When WindowViewer starts an application, it reads the tags from the development repository and places them into run-time memory.

The InTouch application communicates with the tags placed into run-time memory using animation links or scripts. The InTouch application tracks the current values and other status information from the component properties assigned to tags.