Integrated development environment

WindowMaker is the development environment you use to create InTouch HMI applications. You use WindowMaker to create the visual interface used by operators to view and manage your manufacturing processes. An InTouch HMI interface shows data from and writes data back to the production environment.

You can configure the following visual interface elements of your InTouch applications with WindowMaker:

• Windows contain interactive visual elements for plant operators to manage a production process.

• Basic objects are simple graphical elements, such as rectangles, circles, lines, and text.

• User-defined complex objects consist of one or more basic objects that represent elements in your production environment, such as valves and tanks.

• Pre-defined complex objects perform specific functions, such as alarming, historical trending, or Symbol Wizards.

• Animation links are properties of simple and complex objects to animate their appearance and transmit user input to tasks and production data changes.

• Wizards are pre-defined complex objects that perform specific functions or have specific appearance, such as sliders and meters.

• ActiveX controls are controls that you can place in InTouch windows to perform specific functions such as to show current alarms.