Use a Distributed Alarm Display object at run time

The Distributed Alarm Display object uses a grid to show the alarm messages. This grid allows you to dynamically size column widths simply by selecting a column handle and dragging it to the desired width. This functionality is available only during run time.

Grid column changes are not saved; therefore, if you make grid column changes and close the window containing the alarm display, the grid columns will again be at their default width upon re-opening that window. You can adjust the default column width in WindowMaker.

The grid allows you to select single or multiple alarms in a list box. The selected alarms can be acknowledged by using the almAckSelect() QuickScript function. When you configure the Distributed Alarm Display object, you can also define the selection behavior to allow either toggle selection (item by item) or multiple selection (holding down CTRL or SHIFT keys in conjunction with a mouse click to select multiple alarms). You can turn off run-time selection.

You can also configure up to eight different colors for each shown alarm message based on the priority of the alarm and whether or not it is acknowledged.

The scroll bars are available if they were turned on at configuration time.

The alarm display object may have controls to page through alarm records, depending on how the control is configured.