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RSVIEW MACHINE EDITION USER’S GUIDE
Testing your application
You can test your application in RSView® Studio™ at any time during the development
process, to make sure that everything works the way you intend.
If the development computer is connected to the data source, you can test all functions of
the application, including security settings, language switching, communications, and
alarm monitoring.
An RSView ME Station™ emulator opens on the development computer and runs the
application. This runtime version of the application is a temporary version for testing use
only. You cannot run it on another computer.
There is a two-hour time limit for test running the application in RSView Studio.
The procedure in this section shows you how to test your entire application. For
information about testing a single graphic display, see page 14-10.
To test your application in RSView Studio
1. On the Application menu, click Test Application, or click the Test Application tool.
Test Application tool
2. If your application uses multiple languages, specify the languages to include and the
initial runtime language, and then press Finish. For details, see Help.
3. Test your application.
4. To stop your application, press a shutdown button, or type the character ‘x.’
Make sure you provide the operator with a method for shutting down the application
at runtime. For more information about methods for shutting down applications, see
page 26-5.
Once you’ve tested your application to make sure everything works the way you intend,
create the runtime application file and transfer the file to the runtime computer.
Creating runtime application files
Before you can run your application, you must create a runtime version. When you create
the runtime version, RSView Studio compiles all of the necessary application information
into a single file with the extension .mer.
Creating .mer files for previous versions
You can specify the version of RSView ME Station for which to create the .mer file. For
example, if the application will run on a terminal that uses RSView ME Station
version 3.2, you can specify that version for the .mer file.
If the application contains features that are not supported by the version you select,
RSView displays a validation report that lists the unsupported features. The runtime
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