Ci Technologies has announced the release of Citect Version 5.40, the latest release of its award-winning Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software.
“Citect Version 5.40 offers users richer product customization and automation via the inclusion of CitectVBA, Graphics Builder OLE Automation, and improvements to the programming environment,” says Martin Roberts, Ci Technologies’ technical director. “Additionally, Citect Version 5.4 provides a new ‘QuickStart’ project together with various product enhancements to make system configuration quicker and easier.”
With the inclusion of CitectVBA, users are now offered the option of programming in Cicode or CitectVBA. CitectVBA is a true multi-threaded Microsoft VBA compatible scripting language that is now fully integrated into Citect. As well, Citect V5.4 significantly improves the ease, speed, and readability of the software.
The new QuickStart project feature provides a standard project infrastructure. Based on many years of Citect solution engineering experience, the QuickStart project feature provides a range of project and configuration utilities, such as:
- New alarm, report and trend displays
- Inbuilt page navigation system
- Redundancy configuration
- Pre-defined user types and User Profiles and
- Runtime configurable features
The QuickStart project feature is designed to eliminate much of the initial learning curve for new users while providing a solid project basis on which to engineer robust solutions.
The Citect Graphics Builder now offers support for OLE Automation. This interface enables Citect Graphics Builder to act as an Automation Server exposing many Graphics Builder functions as well as some Project Editor and Citect Explorer functions. This object model can be used by custom 3rd party tools built with applications such as Microsoft Visual Basic to automate the creation or maintenance of Citect graphics pages. A number of new drivers have been incorporated in this release including but not limited to MELSCQNA, SNMPII, and SIMPPI.
