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Expanding the user interface
Commissioning Manual, 11/2006, 6FC5397-0DP10-0BA0
Glossary-1
Glossary
Action
Anything configured within a → Method: → Functions, → Calculating variables, → Changing
properties, etc.
User variable
Variables defined by the user in the → Parts program or data block.
Array
An array can be used to organize data of a standard data type stored in the memory in such
a way that it is possible to access the data via an index.
Attribute
Characteristic that assigns specific → Properties to an object (→ Dialog or → Variable).
Menu tree
A group of interlinked → Dialogs
Group
Reload unit for → Configuration file
Dialog
Display of the → User interface
● Dialog-dependent softkey menu
Softkey menu, which is called from a newly configured dialog.
● Dialog-independent softkeys
Softkeys, which are not called from a dialog, i.e., start softkey and softkey menus, which
the user configures before the first, new dialog.
Definition lines
Program section in which → Variables and → Softkeys are defined.