Object
Explorer
The
Object Explorer provides the topmost, "bird's eye"
view of the XMP motion control system. Objects such as Motion
Supervisors and Motors are grouped together in their
own separate folders. When opened, folders reveal objects available
for mapping.
In
this example, the Filter icon is double-clicked to reveal
currently available Filter objects (or you can click once
on the file tree's "+" junction).
Tool
Buttons-- Clicking on a tool button causes an action to be performed
in relationship to the object or folder currently selected in the
object explorer. Another way to act on a selection is to right-click
on the selected icon. Actions that can be performed on a specific
type of object are unique to that object. Therefore, the user will
notice that the tool buttons in the toolbar will change when a different
object is selected.
The Tool
Buttons can be roughly divided up into two groups:
- buttons
that open and configure object Summaries
- buttons
that perform an action on the selected object
Summary
of Configuration Buttons
When you
click on a summary button, it opens and configures the selected
object's summary window (see below).
For example,
suppose Axis 1 is selected on the Object Explorer. Clicking on the
Filter Summary button will configure the Filter Summary window to
display the Filter objects that are mapped to Axis 1. Clicking on
the Axis Summary button will program the Axis Summary window to
display Axis 1.
Summary
buttons are lettered with the first letter of the object they represent.
In the case of Motion Supervisor and Motor objects,
the Motor is represented by an M, while the Motion
Supervisor is represented with an S.
Within
the View menu, summaries can also be displayed by typing
their hot keys ("c" for Controller, "a" for
Axis, etc.).
The Other
Tool Buttons include:
- Reset the selected controller(s)
- Refresh display of the selected controller(s) and sub-objects
- Upload the firmware of the selected controller(s) to a file
- Download firmware from a file to the selected controller(s)
- Remove the selected controller(s)
- Add a controller
- Disassociate (un-map) the selected sub-object from the object
containing it.
Object
Explorer: Mouse Controls
Shift-click-
When holding down the Shift key and clicking on a Summary window
icon, the selected object is either: 1) added to the Summary window
(if it is not already there); or 2) removed from the Summary window
(if it is already being displayed).
Right
mouse button-- The functions performed by the toolbar buttons
can also be accessed by clicking on the selected object or folder
with the right mouse button. This provides a drop-down menu listing
of all actions that can be applied to the selected item.
Each
item on the pull-down menu corresponds to an icon on the tool bar.
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