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next time VPM starts. If you click No, the Device Connect dialog will be displayed the next time VPM
starts.
Editing a vision program from multiple VPM programs
The first VPM program to connect to a device acquires exclusive editing privileges on that device. Other
VPM programs can connect to the device and display data (Read Only mode), but they cannot modify its
vision programs. (See “Special Case Editing” on page 4-3.) When a second VPM program connects to that
device, the following dialog is displayed (WORKSTATION2 is the network name of the computer running
the currently connected VPM program).
When the first VPM disconnects from the device, another VPM program can connect to the device and edit
on it. If that second VPM program had already connected, it must disconnect from the device, then recon-
nect.
If the Display tab is selected in the first VPM, the Display tab on the second VPM is enabled and the second
VPM can access and modify values on its Display tab.
Put device online/offline
Click this button to toggle the Impact device on and offline. When the device is online (the switch is labeled
"1" and is colored yellow), the device accepts triggers. Any tasks that are loaded are executed when they are
triggered by their selected trigger events. If you try to exit VPM while the device is online and there are
unsaved changes in the vision program file, a warning dialog is displayed.
When the device is offline (the switch is labeled "0" and is colored grey), tasks that are loaded remain
loaded, but the device does not accept hardware triggers and VPM stops generating software triggers.
New
This creates a new vision program and adds it to the vision program list. A vision program may contain mul-
tiple tasks. See “Creating a Vision Program” on page 3-30 for details.
Load
This opens a browser dialog so you can open (load) an existing vision program into the device’s operating
system and make it ready to edit or run. Vision programs are stored on the device and may also be loaded
from the Settings Tab - File Manager - Setup.