Status section

Status

General status of ibaVision

Button <Start>

General functions of ibaVision will be initialized, like opening interprocess communication channels, checking if the external programs and libraries are available, etc.

Button <Stop>

Stop the general functions.

Port

The default port number is 7110. If you want to manually change this value, stop the program with the <Stop> button. Enter the desired port number and restart the program with the <Start> button.

Auto-start when Windows starts

This option has to be activated, if ibaVision is supposed to start automatically with every system start.

Programs section

The programs section displays information on the currently configured ibaVision programs. The toolbar contains three buttons:



opens the configuration dialog where the ibaVision configuration can be edited



starts all configured ibaVision programs



stops all configured ibaVision programs

Operating elements and status information of the ibaVision programs are available in the section below. Each ibaVision program is enumerated in a corresponding tab. The name of the ibaVision is shown in the tab.



Starts the currently selected ibaVision program. The Initialization procedure is executed and the Main procedure is executed in a loop until the user stops the program.



Stops the currently selected ibaVision program. The Main procedure will be finished and the Cleanup procedure will be executed.



Restarts the currently selected ibaVision program.

Status

Current status of the ibaVision program: Stopped, Starting, Started, Stopping or Error.

<Open log file>

Opens this program’s current log file in the default text editor. Each ibaVision program generates individual log files.

Timing

Each procedure execution consists of setting the values of iconic and control variables, running the procedure and getting the values of iconic and control variables. ibaVision constantly times each of these steps for the three procedures and displays the results here in microseconds. In addition to the actual values, the minimum and maximum values for the Main procedure execution are also displayed. To reset the minimum and maximum values, click the <Reset statistics> button.

The maximum size for ibaVision log files can be set in the Windows registry by changing the “MaxLogFileSize” entry under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\iba\ibaVision

The value is in units of megabyte and the default size is 524288 MB.