10
Quick Start Guide
MN0480001E
Effective February 2011
XV Operator Interface Models
with Visual Designer
eaton Corporation
www.eaton.com
We will also discuss the Format tab of the Ribbon which is shown
when one or more objects are selected on a screen in the editor
Arrange
•
Bring to front, Send to back, Group, Align, Rotate
Position
•
Modify X and Y position of a single object
Size
•
Modify the Width and Height of a single object, Resize Width and
Height of multiple selected objects
Style
•
Modify the line color and thickness and the fill color of one or
more selected objects
Font
•
Modify the font of one or more selected objects
If a Tool is greyed out, it is not available in the current Mode or
ote:
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with the current Object
3.5.5 The Text I/O Object
In order to view the data from the tag in the database hmiCounter
on the screen first you need to place a text object on the page. To do
this, click on the Text icon on the toolbar. The cursor will change to a
cross-hairs cursor. Click on the page and type the following
Counter
Value #####
then hit the enter key and your text will appear as
shown below:
Next double-click on the text object on the page and the following
properties dialog will appear:
Text icon
Text Data
Link icon
You may modify the properties for alignment, colors, fonts and
even the text caption from this property dialog. To add the Text Data
Link property to this object, click on the Text data link… button to
the right of the Caption or click on the Text Data Link icon from the
Ribbon’s Graphics tab, Animations section. This can be done while
the object properties are being displayed or with just the object
selected in the display window. Once you’d added the Text data
link property you will see the following properties added to the text
object:
The
#####
characters in the text object become placeholders for dis-
playing tag information when the Text data link properties are added
to the text object. The Tag/Expression property defines the tag or tag
expression to replace the
#####
characters in the string. You may
use the ellipsis (…) button to the right of the property to open the
Object Finder window to pick a tag from the tag database or you can
just type the tag name into the field. The Object Finder dialog shown
below allows you to pick from application tags, system tags and vari-
ous math, logic and other functions for the tag/expression property:
For this exercise simply click on the tag ‘hmiCounter’ under the
Project > Integer tags and click on “OK”. Next click on the checkbox
for “Input Enabled” as shown below then close the dialog box with
the red “X” close button.
