Software: Windmill Graphics

Create process mimics and virtual instruments with Windmill Graphics

Create process mimics and virtual instruments with Windmill Graphics

This optional module of the Windmill software suite has

• Alarm indication on all inputs
• Dynamic bar graphs
• Analogue meters
• Changing icons, showing two alternative states
• Time and date labels
• Analogue, digital and DDE control buttons
• No programming required
• Protected Run mode

You can quickly create bar charts, wiring diagrams, process mimics or other customised layouts by

1. Painting a screen background and saving it as a bitmap file. You could use, say, Windows Paint to do this.
2. Loading the bitmap into Graphics and double-clicking the mouse where you want live text or graphics to appear.
3. Choosing the type of live item you want and setting its properties through dialogue boxes.
4. Switching to Run mode.

Adding Graphics to an existing Windmill system costs £295.

You can download a free Windmill Graphics demo. Choose wmldemo.exe and save to disk.