
ifm
System Manual
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mobile
PDM360NG (CR1080, CR1081, CR9042) Target V01
2011-07-28
Visualisations in the device
Recommendations for user interfaces
104
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Visualisations in the device
Recommendations for user interfaces ...................................................................................... 104
Basic information about colours and bitmap graphics .............................................................. 119
Power reserves of the device.................................................................................................... 123
Special information about bitmap graphics ............................................................................... 125
Operate camera(s) on the PDM ................................................................................................ 127
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In this chapter you find important information about bitmap graphics in CoDeSys visualisations.
In addition to the graphical elements created with the CoDeSys visualisation editor, you can also
integrate graphics created with other programs. Such graphics files can, for example, be pictograms,
logos or smaller images. But before you integrate such an "external graphics" some basics have to be
taken into account which will be explained in the following chapters.
More information is given here:
Creation and parameter setting of visualisations:
CoDeSys programming manual (
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mobile
DVD "Software, tools and documentation")
ifm
manual "PDM – Handbuch zur Einführung"
See
the
Limitations and programming notes
(
→
page
)!
7.1
Recommendations for user interfaces
Recommendations for a user-friendly product design .............................................................. 105
Do you know the future users? ................................................................................................. 106
Check suitability for use ............................................................................................................ 107
Language as an obstacle .......................................................................................................... 107
Cultural details are often not transferable ................................................................................. 109
Directives and standards........................................................................................................... 111
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User-friendliness is a decisive criterion for the acceptance and use of technical products!
In this chapter we will give some recommendations how the user interface (also called
H
uman
-
M
achine-
I
nterface HMI) of a machine can be designed as user-friendly as possible.