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This section describes how to define the general settings for character entries. The following is an example of the General page of the Character Entry property sheet.

The following table describes each property in the General page.

	Character Set		Description
Property	Description
ID	The object’s identifier. It is generated when the object is created. The identifier is unique within the screen where the object is located. The format of the IDs for Character entries is TEnnnn.
Note	You can type a note for the object.
Transparent Background	Select this option if you want the object to have a transparent background.
Shape settings	For details about the following properties, see Section 4.3.4 Setting up the Shape of an Object. , Border Color, BG Color
External Label	Check this option if you want the object to have an external label. Set up the external label in the External Label page.
Character Set	Select one of the following five character sets to encode characters into a string of code units.
	ASCII (US)		Defines 128 characters. Uses 8 or 16 bits per character.
	ISO-8859-1 (Western European)		Covers mostly Western European languages. Uses 8 or 16 bits per character.
	ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic)		Covers languages using a Cyrillic alphabet such as Bulgarian, Belarusian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian. Uses 8 or 16 bits per character.
	Unicode		Available only when the target panel is the HMI Runtime. Each character occupies one word and the code is Unicode.
	Unicode (Chinese Class 1 & 2, PRC )		Covers mostly Simplified Chinese characters for use in mainland China. Each character occupies one word and the code is Unicode.
Write Address	Specifies the destination variable where the entered character string will be written to. Click to enter an address for this field. Click to select a tag for this field.
Total Characters	Specifies the number of characters that the Character entry can display and the destination variable can receive.
Append a null character	Check this option so the Character entry will always append a null character to the entered character string before outputting it.
Accept Bar Code Input	Check this option so the bar code input from the bar code reader connected to the specified USB port will be displayed on the character keypad.
Byte Swap	Check this option to display high byte first and then low byte.
Monitor Address identical to Write Address	Specifies that the monitored variable is the same as the destination variable. With this item checked, you don’t need to specify the monitored variable in the Monitor Address field.
Monitor Address	Specifies the monitored variable. Click to enter an address for this field. Click to select a tag for this field.
Null Terminated	When Null Terminated is not selected, the object will display all the characters in the associated memory up to the specified length. For the character of code 0, the object will display a space instead. When Null Terminated is selected, the object will display all the characters in the associated memory up to the specified length if there is no character of code 0. If there is a character of code 0, the object will not display the character of code 0 and the remaining characters after it.
Font	The font of the displayed string. 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 displayed string. You can change the font templates before selecting a font in that dialog box.
Text Color	The color of the displayed string.
Alignment	The alignment of the displayed value. There are three types of alignment: Left, Center, and Right.
Code Type	Select one of the following two code types.
	Type	Description
	Byte	Each character occupies one byte.
	Word	Each character occupies one word.
	Available only when the character set is ASCII (US) or ISO-8859-1 (Western European) or ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic).
Data Entry	Specifies how to enter a character string for the Character entry at runtime. There are two options:
	Option	Description
	Pop-up Keypad	You can bring up the keypad by pressing the Character entry, and then enter a character string with the keypad.
	On-screen Keypad and/or Function Keys	You can move the cursor by using the function buttons with the operation of “Select Next Data Entry Object” or “Select Previous Data Entry Object” to select the Character entry. If there is an on-screen keypad, you can enter a character string for the Character entry with that keypad.
	Note: When the On-screen Keypad and/or Function Keys option is selected, you can only enter a character string for the Character entry with the input focus. To set the input focus to the corresponding object, you need to click that object first.