Section 4.3.6 · Chapter 4: Designing Screens
Text Settings
This section describes how to set up the text of the inner label for the following types of objects:
Multi-state Switch, Radio Button Group, Step Button, Page Selector, Multi-state Lamp, Message Display, and Day-of-week Display.
The following table describes each property in the Text page.
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Property |
Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Language | The language that you are setting the text to. | |
| Border Spacing | The margin (in pixels) of the border for the text body to the object’s shape. | |
| Use the text of the first language for all other languages | Check this item so the text object always shows the text of the first language regardless of what the current language is. | |
| <State list> | Lists all states and the corresponding texts. To view and modify the state attribute and its text, click the row of that state. | |
| Move Up | Click this button to move the current text (and picture) up the list, and thus the associated state number of the current text (and picture) is decreased by one. | |
| Move Down | Click this button to move the current text (and picture) down the list, and thus the associated state number of the current text (and picture) is increased by one. | |
| Copy to all states… | Click this button to use the text of state 0 to replace the text of all other states. | |
| Copy from state 0… | Click this button to use the text of state 0 to replace the current text. | |
| Font |
The font of the current text. You can use the drop-down list to select a
font, or click
 to bring up the Font Templates dialog box and select a
font for the current text. You can change the font templates before
selecting a font in that dialog box.
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| Color | The color of the text. To specify the color, click the corresponding Color icon and select a color from the Color palette. | |
| Transparent | Check this item to make the background of the text transparent. | |
| BG Color | Specifies the background color of the text. | |
 |
The alignment of the text. | |
Position |
The position of the text body. | |
| Blink | Select blink effects to make the text blink. Color switching changes the color of the text from its original color to the color of the background. Text On/Off displays and hides the text. | |
| Shape BG Color | The BG color of the object’s shape for the current state. | |
| Text | <Edit Box> / <Combo Box> | The text for the selected state in current language. |
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 |
Click
to view and edit the text for the selected language in
this edit box, or click
to select a text from dropdown text table that lists all
the texts from Text Database. You can change the text
database before selecting a text. |
|
| Line Spacing | The distance (in pixels) between two adjacent lines of the text. | |
| Character Spacing | The distance (in pixels) between two adjacent characters of the text. | |
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Source.Section 4.3.6 of the PM Designer Software User Manual, Edition 2.0, © Cermate Technologies Inc. (www.cermate.com, service@cermate.com). Reproduced online, with the manual's own figures, by TSL Automation Solutions, authorised Cermate distributor, for users of Cermate HMI panels. PM Designer and PanelMaster are trademarks of Cermate Technologies Inc.
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