Effective February 2011
Quick Start Guide
MN0480001E
XV Operator Interface Models
with Visual Designer
Contents
1. General ............................................................. 2
1.1 Document Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Scope of Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Installation ....................................................... 2
2.1 General Remarks to Wiring . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.2 Starting the device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.3 Switching off the device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.4 Calibrating the Touchscreen . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.5 Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.5.1 Examining and Adjusting the
IP-Address of the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.5.2 Wiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.5.3 Test the Ethernet Connection . . . . . . 3
3. The first VISUAL DESIGNER Project ............. 3
3.1 Creating a new Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2 Select a Display Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.3 Saving Your Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.4 Tags - Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.4.1 Tag Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4.2 Tag Nomenclature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4.3 Visual Designer tag data types . . . . . 5
3.4.4 Tag Scope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4.5 Declaring Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4.6 Visual Designer tag arrays . . . . . . . . . 6
3.4.7 Visual Designer Class Tags . . . . . . . . . 6
3.4.8 Defining Tag Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.4.9 Accessing tag parameters
during development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.4.10 Accessing tag fields
during runtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.4.11 Add a tag to your Project . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.5 Application Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.5.1 Creating a Standard Screen . . . . . . . . 8
3.5.2 Saving the Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.5.3 Selecting the Application
Startup Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.5.4 Visual Designer Toolbars for
Screen Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.5.5 The Text I/O Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.5.6 The Pushbutton Object . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.5.7 The Button Object with Colors
and Command Properties . . . . . . . . 11
3.5.8 Selecting the Startup Screen . . . . . . 12
3.5.9 Testing the Application . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.5.10 Configuring a Communications
Driver and Linking Tags . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.5.11 Verifying the Application and
Creating the Runtime Web Pages . . 14
3.5.12 Connecting to the XV Unit
with Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.5.13 Downloading Visual Designer
Runtime Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.5.14 Downloading Visual Designer
Project Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4. Operation from the Internal Flash or
SD-Card .......................................................... 15
4.1 Switch between Booting from the
Internal Flash or SD-Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.2 Version Change of the
Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
