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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 · Chapter 7: Displaying and Inputting Data

Character Displays

You can use a character display to display the string stored in a variable. This object can display Unicode string if the target panel is the HMI Runtime.
Note: The difference between a character display and a text object is:

A character display is used either to display text, request text, or both. The text of the Character display is not allowed to be set at design time but can easily be set at run time. You can specify the text by changing its defined variable.
A text object can be used to create a label at design time, which is a short text that accompanies another control to indicate its use. The text object cannot be changed at run time.

You can complete all the settings of a character display in the Character Display property sheet. This sheet contains the following three pages. Some of the pages appear only when they are needed.

■ General
Described in Section 7.5.3.

■ Visibility
Described in Section 4.4.6.

■ External Label
Described in Section 4.3.8.

In this section

  1. 7.5.1Character Display - Operation Options
  2. 7.5.2Character Display - Settings
  3. 7.5.3Character Display - General Settings

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Source.Section 7.5 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.