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.

Canvas is a 64-bit application by default. When started the application will detect the platform and will run as 64-bit on a 64-bit machine and 32-bit on a 32-bit machine.

Other Canvas Applications

Canvas View is the read-only runtime 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 runtime companion application to Canvas. Canvas View and Canvas View Lite are 64-bit applications by default.

Canvas User Interface

Click the thumbnail to see a sample Canvas workspace with callouts

Click the thumbnail to see a Canvas Backstage view, Settings page

Canvas contains a set of controls and features that are compatible with CygNet Software v9.5, 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:

Alarm Grid Button Chart and Default Chart Check Box Combo Box CygNet Grid Detail

Donut Edit Box Heat Map Image Linear Gauges Navigator Nested View

Object and Screen Object Container Radio Button Relative Facility Tree Search Box Shape Sparkline

Tab Control Tag Chooser Text Tool Tile View Tree Map Value Indicator

• 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 runtime companion application (as CygNet Vision currently is to CygNet Studio)
• Canvas View Lite — A read-only fullscreen-only runtime companion application that relies on screen navigation only