Getting Started with Canvas.View.Lite

Canvas.View.Lite is a read-only runtime companion application to Canvas. While Canvas.View can create complex layouts of multiple screens in pinned, docked, tabbed, or floating states, Canvas.View.Lite utilizes a single main screen that drives all other screen navigation. It is always fullscreen and removes all user interaction that is not part of the screen’s HMI (no file menu, toolbar, backstage view, status bar, etc.). The main screen is opened via command-line.

Both visualization applications are valuable for different HMI configurations. Because Canvas.View.Lite doesn’t use the docking framework that Canvas.View does, it loads faster, at the cost of a far simpler UI and simpler layout options.

Canvas.View.Lite can only open Canvas (.can) files:

• any Canvas screen (.can), opened directly or via hyperlink
• any Canvas screen (.can) containing a Nested View control, which can reference a CygNet Studio screen (.csf). Canvas.View.Lite does support CygNet Studio files that contain Nested View Tools.

Canvas.View.Lite is 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.

You can customize the user interface to choose a color theme for the entire application, options include: dark, light, or blue. The theme is configured in the Canvas Backstage view, Settings page, and is stored in the Canvas workspace settings. The application must be restarted to pick up the new theme from the workspace settings. The default color theme is Dark.

Start Canvas.View.Lite

Canvas.View.Lite must be started via the command-line interface.

Exit Canvas.View.Lite

Use the Alt+F4 keyboard shortcut to exit Canvas.View.Lite. Or exit the application via the Task Manager (use Windows logo + Down arrow to minimize Canvas.View.Lite).