Managed Applications

In addition to the same InTouch components used to create and manage a stand-alone application, a managed application uses the ArchestrA IDE to provide advanced graphics capability. The following figure shows the InTouch components used to create, build, and run an application.

• You can manage InTouch applications using the ArchestrA IDE, if it is installed on the same computer as the InTouch HMI. These applications are called managed InTouch applications. 
• Unlike stand-alone InTouch applications that are managed entirely by InTouch Application Manager, managed applications are more integrated into the ArchestrA environment and support advanced graphics. 
• You can start the ArchestrA IDE from the Application Manager. Managed InTouch applications appear in the InTouch Application Manager as "Managed" and can be edited only by starting WindowMaker from within the ArchestrA IDE.

Key Points

• Each managed application is associated with an ArchestrA InTouchViewApp object, which is derived from a base template.
• The ArchestrA IDE includes the Symbol Editor, which you can use to create symbols that represent production processes in your InTouch application.
• A managed application appears in Application Manager as Managed and can be edited only by starting WindowMaker from the ArchestrA IDE.
• From Application Manager, you can only start a managed application in WindowViewer. When WindowViewer starts, it copies a managed application’s files to a folder during run time.
• You can fast switch from WindowMaker and WindowViewer to test a managed application only if the WindowMaker was opened from the IDE.