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Section 4.3.7 · Chapter 4: Designing Screens

Picture Settings

This section describes how to define the picture settings for the following types of objects:

Multi-state Switch, Radio Button Group, Step Button, Page Selector, Multi-state Lamp, Picture Display, and Animated Graphic.

The property sheets of the above mentioned objects provide you the Picture page to define the picture settings of the objects. The following is an example of the Picture page.

The following table describes each property in the Picture page.

Property Description
Border Spacing The distance (in pixels) between picture border and shape border.
Picture The name of the current picture. You can use the drop-down list to select a picture from the picture database.
Click to select a picture from a file as the current picture. After the selection, the software imports the picture of the selected file and saves the picture in the picture database.
Click to bring up the Select/Import from Library dialog box. Select a picture from a picture library file as the current picture. After the selection, the software imports the selected picture from the selected library and saves the picture in the picture database.
Transparent Check this item to make parts of the picture transparent. The transparent parts are pixels whose colors are the same as the specified transparent color. This item is available when the picture is not a black and white picture.
Transparent Color The transparent color.
FG Color The color to paint the black part of a black and white picture. This item is available when the picture is a black and white picture.
BG Color The color to paint the white part of a black and white picture. This item is available when the picture is a black and white picture.
Flip/Rotate Specifies the method to flip or rotate the picture before drawing it. There are 8 options:
Method Description
0° No rotation
90° Rotates the picture clockwise by 90 degrees
180° Rotates the picture clockwise by 180 degrees
270° Rotates the picture clockwise by 270 degrees
X Flips the picture over the X axis
90° & X Rotates the picture clockwise by 90 degree and flips it over the X axis
Y Flips the picture over Y axis
90° & Y Rotates the picture clockwise by 90 degree and flips it over the Y axis
Tone Check this item to tone the current picture.
Toning Color The color to tone the current picture.
Fit to Object heck this item so the current picture can change its size automatically to fit inside the border of the object’s shape.
Position
The position of the current picture within the object.
Shape BG Color The BG color of the object’s shape for the current state.  

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Source.Section 4.3.7 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.

Text and figures are the manufacturer's and may describe features your panel or software version does not have. For a plain-language introduction read the PM Designer guide; for help with a specific panel contact TSL Automation.