Canvas Overview

Canvas provides high-quality screen design functionality, utilizing a variety of specialized tools and controls, which you can use to create user screens to interface with your CygNet Software installation and data. The Canvas plugin model allows the creation of custom or third-party control types, and once added to Canvas they will be available for addition to your screens.

Other Canvas Applications

Canvas View is the read-only run-time companion application to Canvas providing a standard multi-document interface to your Canvas screens. You can also open any CygNet Studio file (.csf) in Canvas View. Canvas View Lite is a very light read-only run-time companion application to Canvas.

Canvas User Interface

Canvas contains a set of controls and features that are compatible with CygNet Software v9.4, including:

• Screen creation, including style sheets, find and replace, multi-select editing, screen preview, layers
• Script editing in C# or VB.NET
• The following controls provide access to CygNet data:

• Support for property inheritance from the screen or other controls and overriding at the control level
• Support for sending and receiving facility tag information from one control to another
• Support for facilities and group-based navigation
• Support for navigation by facility
• Support for searching by facility or other custom searching
• Support for custom color palettes to override the default point state colors for any point type
• Support for visual and audio alarm notification
• Support for relative facilities
• Support for on-demand charting
• Custom control framework
• Debugging capabilities
• Canvas View — A read-only run-time companion application (as CygNet Vision currently is to CygNet Studio)
• Canvas View Lite — A read-only fullscreen-only run-time companion application that relies on screen navigation only