Well, they have FoxPanels, but it doesn't stay out of the way as you are suggesting. It takes up way too much screen real estate to be useful. I suppose you could dedicate a screen to FoxPanels, but that's a bit excessive. Tim Lowell Control Systems Engineer Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company | 19100 Ridgewood Parkway | San Antonio, TX 78259 210-626-4929 (w) | 210-439-5914 (c) | timothy.lowell@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Corey R Clingo Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:04 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] Obsolescence and unavailability of 6 X 8 annunciator keypads I suppose we could build an onscreen annunciator that nestled in the extra space on a widescreen that Foxview cannot use :) Corey From: Terry Doucet <doucet427@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 03/16/2011 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [foxboro] Obsolescence and unavailability of 6 X 8 annunciator keypads Sent by: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx It is interesting that touch screen never really took off with process controls and I suspect your statement about Operators not wanting to lean forward is the key impediment. The plant where I saw them used the most had CRT's in panels so the Operator stood in front of the touch screen and manipulation was then quite easy. A couple of sites where I visited never used the modular or alarm keyboards and always used qwerty keyboards for Operators to enter data. Flashing points on overview graphics were used to get the Operator to the point in alarm. FoxView on Windows does allow the soft modular keyboards but I have not seen them in too many sites. Perhaps a reasonable solution would be for Foxboro to allow this application to run on Windows (no AW or WP or FV license required) and connect via USB to the AW or WP stations. A windows computer is probably much less expensive that the GCIO and Modular Keyboard. Terry _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave