Omron NT-SERIES - SUPPORT TOOL FOR WINDOWS V4, Operation Manual

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5-3 Section Continuous/Overlapping Screens
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5-3-1 Continuous Screens
Two to eight screens can be registered for one continuous screen. The base
screen where multiple screens are registered is called a parent screen and multi-
ple screens registered to the parent screen are called child screens.
[ ↓ ] [ ↓ ]
Screen No. 1
Screen No. 15
Screen No. 20
Screen No. 10
Parent
screen
Continuous
screen 1
Continuous
screen 2
Continuous
screen 3
[ ↑ ] [ ↑ ]
When screen No. 10 is specified, the first continuous screen, screen No. 20, is
displayed. Pressing touch switch [
↓ ] changes the screen to screen No. 15.
Pressing the touch switch again changes the screen to screen No. 1.
Since the screen of screen No. 10 is set as the parent screen of continuous
screens, it cannot be displayed independently.
Screens set as continuous screens are switched by the pressing of the touch
switches [
↓ ] and [ ↑ ], for which system key functions are allocated.
In the parent screen setting dialog, show page number can be set or reset to indi-
cate currently activated child screen number out of total pages on the upper right
corner of the parent screen.
Child screens should be created on standard screens in advance.
Continuous screens are set in the procedure described below.
(1) Create child screens using standard screens.
(2) Specify [Parent Screen] from [New] command in the [Screen] menu.
(3) In the parent screen setting dialog box, set a parent screen number, child
screen numbers, and whether or not a page number is displayed.
a. Set the number of the parent screen for [Screen No.] in [Parent].
If the number of screen data has been already created, it cannot be regis-
tered as a parent screen.
b. Select [Continuous].
c. If necessary, tick [Show Page Number].
d. Specify child screens.
Select screens that are specified as child screens by selecting them from the
[Standard] field, then click on
.
The selected screen moves to the [Child] field. If a wrong number is moved,
click on
: the screen returns from the [Child] field to the [Standard]
field.