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What is MIStudio?
MIStudio is ErgoTech's visual development environment for building industrial dashboards, operator interfaces, and data-driven applications.
MIStudio projects can include graphics, logic, data sources, servers, scripts, and deployment configuration. These pieces work together to create applications that can display live data, respond to changing values, and provide user interfaces for industrial systems.
Common Uses
- Dashboards for viewing equipment, process, or production status
- Operator interfaces for tools, machines, and industrial systems
- Data-driven displays that update from live or simulated values
- Test projects for validating graphics, servers, data sources, and runtime behavior
- Applications that can be deployed to MIX
Basic Concept
A MIStudio project usually contains one or more applications. Each application can contain graphics and logic. Graphics are used to build the visual display. Logic and data sources are used to send values into those graphics or respond to user actions.
For example, a simple project might contain:
- A meter graphic
- A SineServer test data source
- A connection from the SineServer to the meter
- A saved application that can be reopened and tested again
Getting Started Flow
A good beginner workflow is:
- Understand what MIStudio is.
- Open MIStudio.
- Understand the project structure.
- Create or open a project.
- Create an application.
- Add one or more graphics.
- Edit graphic properties.
- Connect a data source to a graphic.
- Save, close, and reopen the project.
Continue to the next page: Opening MIStudio