Step 3: Launching the Quick Client

You can launch our OPC Quick Client at any time by clicking on the Quick Client button on the toolbar of the TOP Server as shown here. When the Quick Client launches it will automatically connect to the TOP Server, browse it for available tags, subscribe to them, and start displaying the live data.

Once you have launched the Quick Client, you will see it on your taskbar. The Quick Client is shown in action below.

• Caution: Each time you click the icon shown above we will launch another instance of the Quick Client as there is no hard coded limit on the number of clients you can have simultaneously connected to the server.  Quick Client automatically connects to TOP Server with a 1000 ms update rate.  You can easily change the default group update rate in Quick Client by clicking Tools->Options.
   
• Note: the Quick Client can also be started directly by clicking Start->Programs->Software Toolbox->TOP Server 5->Quick Client. Quick Client can connect to any OPC Sever, create a group and browse for particular tags - great for troubleshooting! Learn more in the OPC Quick Client Users Guide.

Once you have the quick client launched you can right click on any tag name to write different values to the tags. Remember though that tags that reference R registers are over-written by the simulated data as soon as you write a new value - you will see your write though. For example, if the tag has a value of 2359 when you write a 0 to it, you'll see our simulator automatically keep counting up from 0 after your write.