Specifications

Level I Developer’s Toolkit
Extensions Categories
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extension. The toolkit includes tools and information for integrating a
customer-developed extension with the SPECTRUM CD formats and
the SPECTRUM installation script. CDs created using the SEI Toolkit
utilities will be installed at a customer’s site. Tools are also provided to
export models from the SPECTRUM database, icons from
SpectroGRAPH, and protocols from SPECTRUM. Purchasers of the
toolkit receive a unique Developer Identification Code to ensure that
their SPECTRUM extensions can be integrated into any SPECTRUM
site in the world.
Aprisma encourages purchasers to become SPECTRUM Partners. We are
committed to keeping the SPECTRUM Partners Program dynamically
responsive to your needs, and we welcome new partners who can further
extend the range and flexibility of solutions available through
SPECTRUM. For more information and an application to become a
SPECTRUM Partner, please contact SPECTRUM Partner Development
(email: [e-mail]; phone:++1-877-437-0291; www:
http://www.aprisma.com).
Extensions Categories
Several categories of extensions are developed using Level I Developer’s
Tools:
• Simple model types and relations (those that involve only the addition
of attributes) can be derived from existing ones by using tools such as
the Model Type Editor (MTE).
• The process of adding new alerts, mapping alerts to events, and events
to alarms (for simple model types or for complex ones) does not involve
writing C++ code. SPECTRUM’s Event Configuration (EC) Editor may
be used to add or edit events, generate an alarm from an event, and
delete events.
• New base icons can be created by simply creating a new information
block. Views can be made to display new icons by modifying the
Perspective Information Blocks (PIBs) associated with them.