13.3.3 Client

13.3.3.1 Overview

13.3.3.2 Facets

13.3.3.2.1 Basic Control Client Facet

This facet contains the basic functionality required for a client to monitor and control a vision system server using DataChange subscriptions and basic methods.

13.3.3.2.2 Full Control Client Facet

This facet contains functionality required for in-depth control of a vision system including StateChanged and Error events and the StepModel methods and events.

13.3.3.2.3 Basic Result Content Client Facet

This facet contains basic functionality required to monitor and access result information, including the distinction between real and simulated results.

13.3.3.2.4 Simple Result Content Client Facet

This facet contains the same functionality as the Basic Result Content Client Facet in Section 13.3.3.2.3 and in addition the capability to process the – potentially dynamic – application-specific result content and to access black-box result content using TemporaryFileTransfer objects.

13.3.3.2.5 Full Result Content Client Facet

This facet contains the same functionality as the Simple Result Content Client Facet in Section 13.3.3.2.4 and in addition the capability to access result nodes exposed by a server in the Results folder.

13.3.3.2.6 Result Meta Data Client Facet

This facet contains functionality to process the entire range of meta data a vision system server can provide for a result.

13.3.3.2.7 Configuration Handling Client Facet

This facet contains the capabilities required to access the full potential range of configuration handling functionality potentially provided by a vision system server.

13.3.3.2.8 Recipe Handling Client Facet

This facet contains the capabilities required to access the full potential range of recipe handling functionality potentially provided by a vision system server.

13.3.3.2.9 Vision State Monitoring Client Facet

This facet contains the capabilities required to access the full potential range of state and condition information functionality potentially provided by a vision system server.

13.3.3.2.10 Production Quality Monitoring Client Facet

This facet contains the capabilities required to access production-quality relevant information potentially provided by a vision system server, including the distinction between real and simulated results, result contents and the processing times which can be an important indicator for problems in either production or vision system.

13.3.3.2.11 Data Backup Client Facet

This facet contains the capabilities required to manage the retrieval and organized backup of all types of data from a vision system server.

13.3.3.3 Profiles

13.3.3.3.1 Basic Control Client Profile

This FullFeatured Profile defines a client capable of basic monitoring and control of a vision system server and its results.

13.3.3.3.2 Simple Control Client Profile

This FullFeatured Profile defines a client capable of in-depth monitoring and control of a vision system server and full utilization of its results.

13.3.3.3.3 Full Control Client Profile

This FullFeatured Profile defines a client capable of in-depth monitoring and control of a vision system server and full utilization of its results including all potentially provided result meta data.

13.3.3.3.4 Result Content Client Profile

This FullFeatured Profile defines a client capable of full utilization of the results of a vision system server including all potentially provided meta data. The intention of such a client is not control of the vision system server but observation and retrieval of its results.

13.3.3.3.5 Monitoring Client Profile

This FullFeatured Profile defines a client capable of monitoring all aspects of the state of a vision system server as well as production-quality relevant data and events. The intention of such a client is not control of the vision system but observation and condition monitoring.

13.3.3.3.6 Configuration Management Client Profile

This FullFeatured Profile defines a client capable of retrieving and providing all meta data and black-box data for vision system server configurations, recipes and results. The intention of such a client is not control of the vision system server, but management of all relevant data in connection with the server.