Graphical Displays
The .NET Framework, among the various advances in technology, brought the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) which is a graphical technology that allows easy access to maximum potential of graphics cards and hardware accelerators for images. Another benefit was the introduction of XAML (Extended Markup Language) that allows the user interface to be created declaratively, creating more powerful interfaces and functionality with less programming time.
Tatsoft FactoryStudio is entirely created on top of WPF and XML, both the engineering tools, providing a great world-class user experience, as well the runtime displays, empowering the engineers to create advanced state-of-art applications, accessing the full potential of currently available graphics cards, with superior development speed and effectiveness.
FactoryStudio includes a full featured graphical editor and designer to create the runtime applications, uniquely created to provide the best integration with the other modules and the real-time database, including a rich set of dynamic animations and a smart extensible symbol library
Five types of remote clients are supported:
Rich Clients: Runs as a desktop application, allows the blocking of the Windows task-switch. This is ideal for process control applications that need high performance and enhanced security.
Smart Clients: Uses Click-Once technology, installs and updates on remote clients with a single click from a browser and it is automatically updated on the remote clients when it is updated on the server. It uses all the power of the remote computer yet retains the advantages of a centralized install.
Web Clients: Runs directly from the Web-Browser with no installation of any software required (nor any active-x controls!). The partial-trust security guarantees it runs in a completely isolated secure environment.
Thin Clients: Runs using remote desktop connection or Terminal server or other thin client technology. Typically used to run on tablets using Android or WinRT.
Tables, iPad native app. The same displays created on Windows computers are automatically rendered to run natively on iPads on iPhones, combining the rich user experience and security of a native app with the benefits of have only on project configuration.