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Updating UserInterface Windows

The states in your AE system change all the time. They start, are active, wait for a group or fulfill specific Preconditions. Current states can seen in the Activity Window, in monitors and other views. These windows are constantly refreshed; several settings are available in which intervals can be specified.


Setting

Description

In the Server

Setting in the variable UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS in the key EH_KICK_INTERVAL for Server-message intervals.

In the UserInterface

Setting for manual and automatic activity refreshing.

F5 key,
menu command Refresh and
push button 

Immediately refreshes the currently selected window, regardless of the settings mentioned above.

The UserInterface receives Server messages which include information about changed states. For each client, the administrator can specify the interval in which the Server sends these messages (variable UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS). Only active UserInterfaces receive messages, but only when a status has changed. In doing so, good performance can be kept.

The UserInterface refreshes all open windows based on the information received about changed states in the interval specified in its settings. Keep in mind that manual refreshing (e.g. via the F5 key) immediately refreshes the selected window. In this case, the UserInterface retrieves information about changed states from the Server.