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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1996
William L Call, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Laurence A Clawson, Cave Creek, AZ (US);
Paul S Connolly, Glendale, AZ (US);
Ronald J Freimark, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Jay W Gustin, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Michael L Hodge, Cave Creek, AZ (US);
Paul McGaugh, San Antonio, TX (US);
Donald W Moore, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Elliott H Rachlin, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Steven C Ramsdell, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A system for, and method of, emulating, on a non-native computer, a native environment for a visual display object file for a real time process control system and a real time process control system employing the emulator. The visual display object file contains a drawing command, an address pointer for communicating data with the real time process control system and a rule for interpreting data received from a touch-sensitive screen. The system includes: (1) a display routine that causes the non-native computer to control a non-native visual display coupled thereto to display an image thereon as a function of the drawing command, (2) an address mapping routine that communicates the data between the visual display object file and the real time process control system as a function of the address pointer and (3) an input translation routine that translates data received into the non-native computer from a non-native pointing device coupled thereto into data suitable for interpretation by the rule, the system thereby allowing the non-native computer to display the image, communicate the data with the real time process control system and interpret the data received from the non-native pointing device.