Patent ID: 7010753
Filing Date: 2006-03-07
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer program method for driving a computer processor for use with a graphics display device and for graphically representing, and facilitating a user in configuring, automation equipment, the automation equipment including a support having a plurality of receiving locations as well as a plurality of modules each capable of being coupled to the support in at least one of the receiving locations, the methods comprising the steps of: displaying on the display in a graphics window device images and in a text window text information, each representative of the receiving locations of the automation equipment; automatically visually indicating, immediately upon selection of a module, all receiving locations in said graphics window and respective text representations in said text window with which a module is capable of being associated; wherein, the selection of a module triggers the indication of said all receiving locations to facilitate the user's relation of the selected module with an associated location in either said graphics window or said text window, and wherein a graphical link between a selected receiving location in the graphics window and the text window is displayed.