Real Time Displays
Real Time Displays provide the ability to display real time data feeds coming from ACQ on your user interface. You can display RAW data exactly as it comes out of the sensor and/or parsed data if you are interested in the data fields themselves. Real Time Displays are extremely simple to setup and are the primary widgets to use when you wish to to view data streams as text.
Designing the Widget
Click the Real-Time Displays link on the Manage My Widgets panel then click the +Create New Real-Time Display button on top of the grid.
Enter the standard information for widget creation including a name, description, any keywords and permission level you wish this template to have and hit OK.
This will bring you to the editor for this widget.
The editor is broken down into 3 columns. On the left you will find the standard sensor selection screen, in the middle you will see the command buttons and on the right you will see all the sensors you wish to display on your UI in this widget.
Simply pick one or more messages/data-fields on the left, click the +Add button to add them to your display and change their order on the right as you see fit.
The current data for each of the items in the right hand list will be displayed, in the order as you see it, on the widget when it is run. You can build logical groupings (eg all GYROs in one display, or the relative winds and true winds in one display, or all data needed by the bridge, etc) and create as many real time display widgets as you need to accommodate your various QA/QC and data visualization goals.
Run Time
Real Time Displays are, like other widgets, added to a layout via a Widget Group.
Simply find the Real-Time Display node and expand it to see a list of all RTD templates available to you. Create a new one if needed or load a previously defined one into your group.
Each of the items you added to your RTD template will start to update itself with it's current value as supplied by ACQ.
Right clicking on the RTD provides a context menu allowing for different actions to be performed.
