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Chapter 7: Displaying and Inputting Data: 32 topics
  1. 7.1Numeric Entries
  2. 7.1.1Numeric Entry - Operation Options
  3. 7.1.2Numeric Entry - Settings
  4. 7.1.3Numeric Entry - General Settings
  5. 7.1.4Advanced Settings for Numeric Entries
  6. 7.2Numeric Displays
  7. 7.2.1Numeric Display - Operation Options
  8. 7.2.2Numeric Display - Settings
  9. 7.2.3Numeric Display - General Settings
  10. 7.2.4Numeric Display - Advanced Settings
  11. Advanced Numeric Displays
  12. 7.3.1Advanced Numeric Displays
  13. 7.3.2Advanced Numeric Display - Operation Options
  14. 7.3.3Advanced Numeric Display - Settings
  15. 7.3.4Advanced Numeric Display - General Settings
  16. 7.3.5Advanced Numeric Display - Range Settings
  17. 7.4Character Entries
  18. 7.4.1Character Entry - Operation Options
  19. 7.4.2Character Entry - Settings
  20. 7.4.3Character Entry - General Settings
  21. 7.4.4Character Entry - Advanced Settings
  22. 7.5Character Displays
  23. 7.5.1Character Display - Operation Options
  24. 7.5.2Character Display - Settings
  25. 7.5.3Character Display - General Settings
  26. 7.6Time Displays
  27. 7.6.1Time Display - Settings
  28. 7.7Date Displays
  29. 7.7.1Date Display - Settings
  30. 7.8Day-of-week Displays
  31. 7.8.1Day-of-week Display - Settings
  32. 7.8.2Day-of-week Display - General Settings
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Section 7.5.3 · Chapter 7: Displaying and Inputting Data

Character Display - General Settings

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

The following table describes each property in the General page.

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 displays is TDnnnn.
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 The types of character codes of the string in the monitored variable. You can select ASCII (US) code or ISO-8859-1(Western European) or ISO-8859-5(Cyrillic) or Unicode (Chinese Class 1 & 2, PRC) or Unicode (Chinese Class 1 & 2, PRC & Taiwan) . If the target panel is a PC, the Unicode is also an option.
Used for keypad display Check this option if the character display is used to display the input from a custom keypad.
Display asterisks(*) instead If the character display is used for custom keypad, you can check this option to display asterisks instead of the character.
Monitor Address Specifies the monitored variable.
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 display can display.
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 Size The size of each character. You can select Byte or Word.
Byte Swap Check this option to display high byte first and then low byte.

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Source.Section 7.5.3 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.