Hardware manual
Impact Reference Guide CPM Controls
4-23 Datalogic Automation Inc.
To open the Link Browser window, click the Links tab.
To expand the browser window to include additional fields, click the Advanced Browser button. The link
direction arrow points from the source to the destination.
The following fields are displayed in the browser window, from left to right.
• Icon and name of the currently selected control or panel
• Source/Destination property or method name
• Source/Destination value (advanced browser)
• Link direction arrow
• Icon and name of the Source/Destination control
• Source/Destination value (advanced browser)
• Source/Destination data type (advanced browser)
The color of the Source/Destination field name indicates the link’s status:
• Blue - link endpoints
• Orange - method and event links
• Red - unresolved links (e.g. due to a vision program not being loaded on the device)
• Black - property link endpoints
To preview a printed list of all the link information, click the print preview icon. To print the list, click the
print icon.
To expand any column to the match the length of the data in the column, click the column header. You can
also click on the column divider on the column header and drag the column to the desired width.
CPM Controls
There are several types of CPM controls, including those that receive and display images and other data
(including regions of interest), and those that perform output operations (such as sending values to an
inspection task and controls to the Impact device).
Every control has a Name which is displayed on the General tab. Controls also have properties, methods,
and events which are shown on their respective tabs. The Impact Connector control also has Get Data, Set
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