Operation

SUMMARY

How to operate the "AvReplay" program.

CONTENTS

  1. Program start
  2. User Interface
  3. read tables
  4. Marked List-Entry
  5. Time Filter
  6. Set Replay Mode
  7. Reset Replay Mode
  8. Single Step Replay
  9. Replay and Time Factor
  10. Pause
  11. Stop
  12. +/- 1 hour
  13. Deactivating the mouse click for Lists

Program start

By double click to “AvReplay.exe” the program is started.

User Interface

read tables

This function starts the import of an Archive= EventLog table pair.
See also: Introduction

WARNING
Tables can only read in if the runtime (Prcs.exe) and the according project are started.

In case of an error a message window is popped up, after restarting the runtime the tables may be reread.

When called up the first time a dialog for selecting the project is displayed; two for selection of Eventlog and Archive-Table follow. If the playback modus is not active yet the Table-Selection may be modified but not that one for the project.

To select a new project "Prcs.exe" and "AvReplay.exe" has to be stopped.

After reading in the tables a list is displayed. The fields “oldest Entry” and "latest Entry” show the oldest resp. youngest Entry available.

On closing down “AvReplay.exe” information about Project and tables are saved and set as a default on a restart.

Marked List-Entry

Always the marked List-Entry is replayed next.

The marker may be moved up or down via mouse click or via the keyboard, also when replay is active.
The selected entry is marked and replay of data is continued from there.

Time Filter

Via the Entry Fields for the Time Filter the period of time to replay may be defined.

Note:
The mask (DD.MM.YYYY hh:mm:ss) must be used carefully not to define an invalid filter.

Via the button “set Filter” the filter is applied to the List, thereby an eventually existing definition is overwritten. Empty Input Fields reset the filter and all table entries shown in the list.

Invalid Time Filters (older than the oldest, resp. later than the youngest time entry) will be ignored. The Entry Field is emptied.

When closing down the program Time Filter Entries are saved. On restarting "AvReplay.exe" there are shown as default when selecting “read tables”.

Set Replay Mode

That functions sets the runtime to replay mode and prepares it to replay old values. Specially the ACI is disconnected from the actual time and initialized with the time of the marked entry in the list.
If no list entry is marked the oldest table entry is taken.

When replay is active the recorder buttons can be used to control replay.

Reset Replay Mode

Via that function Replay Mode is abandoned; ACI is disconnected from the Table Time and set to the actual time.
It can be called only if replay has stopped. After it has terminated new tables may be defined.

Single Step Replay

Step by step replay of the events for a defined object. (Object numbers are compared) Independent of Real-time.

Replay and Time Factor

Restarts replay mode from the marked list entry.
The entry “1” defines that replay runs in real time i.e. a table holding data of one hour will take one hour for replay.
The default value for the time factor is one

By increasing the time factor the replay speed increases at the same rate, e.g. 2 = redoubles the replay speed. The time factor is limited to 60 (which means in one minute data of one hour are replayed) On a high time factor and a flood of data at any second there might be a timing problem; but that does not interfere with the replay (no list entries are missed out).

WARNING
Using a high replay speed on a Short-time-Recorder may lead to an inaccurate playback of values with an alteration interval < 1 second * time factor.

A time factor less than 1 results in a slow motion replay; e.g. 0.5 = half of the real time speed (within 1 minute 30 seconds of data are replayed).
Die minimale Lowest possible time factor is 0.001 but any rate below 0.1 is not very suggestive since list entries are made in a rate of tenth of a second.

Pause

Pause - Disrupts the replay and sets the marker to the list entry.

Stop

Stop – Stops the replay and sets the marker to the start position of the list.

+/- 1 hour

These buttons select the first entry of the following, resp. previous hour and reset replay mode.

Deactivating the mouse click for Lists

Via an entry into Vision2000.ini the mouse click for selection of objects may be deactivated.
The Vision2000.ini entry has to look like:

[AvReplay]
DisableListClicks=1
'1' mouse click deactivated
'0' mouse click activated.