Introduction
FrameworX offers a comprehensive solution for advanced user interfaces, providing:
- Portable Displays: Seamless operation across Windows and web browsers, using WebAssembly and .NET CodeBehind for top-tier performance, with the same display drawing and configuration shared across both environments.
- Unified Designer and Runtime Themes: 12 versatile themes with light and dark variations for optimal visibility and comfort.
- Responsive Dashboards and Process Screens: Adaptive interfaces for desktop and mobile, ensuring consistency across devices. Advanced drawing tool for synoptic and process screens.
- Smart Symbols Library: Over 2,000 dynamic symbols for efficient SCADA and monitoring applications.
- Self-aware Dynamic Displays: User interfaces that adapt automatically to the connected data.
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Portable Displays
With unparalleled performance on the Web Pages
WebAssembly and .NET CodeBehind deliver blazing-fast performance for web pages, even with thousands of graphical elements.
Although you can create displays that need to open in only one environment or another, our platform supports the Portable option, where the exact same configuration can be used for both Windows/WPF clients and Web/HTML5 clients.
Users don't need to create two different kinds of screens for Windows and Web clients. Using the Portable option for the rendering engine creates displays that will automatically function in both desktop and web environments.
This feature enabled our users from previous releases to use the screens they created over the years on Windows desktops and open them directly in web browsers with no rework or modifications.
Designer and Runtime Themes
Our platform includes a thoughtfully curated set of built-in themes designed to elevate the user experience—whether you’re working in a bright office, a dark control room, or on a mobile tablet in the field. These themes enhance aesthetics, comfort, usability, and visual clarity across a wide range of industrial environments.
Themes apply consistently across both the design environment and runtime operator displays, ensuring a professional and seamless visual experience with no extra configuration.
We offer a full set of Light and Dark theme pairs, covering cool grays, vibrant blues, elegant purples, and rich earth tones. You can also create your own Light-Dark custom themes using our built-in visual customization tools.
Theme Pair | Description |
|---|---|
Light & Dark | Clean white and classic dark — optimized for bright or dim environments. |
Platinum & Onyx | Subtle gray tones paired with a sharp, modern black style. |
Steel & Graphite | Cool grayscale Light and Dark themes with a modern, minimal feel. |
Pearl & Indigo | Soft lilac-accented light theme with a bold, rich purple dark variant. |
Sky & Navy | Airy sky blue matched with a deep, calming navy. |
Gold & Coffee | Elegant golden hues paired with a warm, earthy brown. |
ContrastLight & ContrastDark | Accessibility-first options designed with maximum visual separation and clarity. |
Responsive Dashboards and Process Screens
Responsive Dashboards
Allows the easy creation of responsive User Interfaces that adapt automatically to the User's Device, from a Desktop to a Mobile, organizing the display elements. The same dashboard can be used by Desktop or Mobile users, in Windows Clients or Web Browsers.
Process Screens
For traditional process diagrams and synoptics, the Drawing tools allow extensive flexibility in layouts and frames, and include new features for customizing resizing: proportionally, using scrollbars, or allowing specific objects to resize or change position according to the client window.
Desktop, Mobile (Portrait and Landscape) and HTML5 preview
Easily customize your layout to work properly in various scenarios, with a centralized configuration and preview feature.
Smart Symbols Library
Smart Symbols
The Drawing tool includes a library of around 2,000 Smart Symbols, graphical elements typically used in industrial applications. Many of these symbols are more than just vector images; they also have dynamic behavior that allows for direct mapping to your Tags and Assets. It also includes a set of Industrial Icons, specially designed for typical visuals on process displays.
High-Performance HMI
The well-known book High Performance HMI proposed a set of standards for HMI design. Our platform fully supports the creation of solutions that adhere to these standards, including High-Performance Graphical (HPG) palettes in its themes and hundreds of ready-to-use symbols created according to those specifications.
Advanced Components and Controls
For advanced graphical interfaces, such as Gantt and Trend Charts, DataGrids, PdfViewer, and others, a set of graphical components for both WPF and Web is included. Additionally, third-party controls can be easily integrated into the solution.
Self-Aware Dynamic Displays
Data-centric applications can have their User Interface created automatically based on the assets found in the Data Model. Typically, these applications are organized around a Unified Namespace, MQTT Broker, or OPC UA servers. FrameworX establishes a dynamic connection with these servers, selecting the best UI elements according to the data found on the connected servers.
