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Application-oriented manual – Control of alphanumeric HMIs (LCD) and printers
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3.4 Cursor position
This parameter defines the position on the screen of the first character of a text
string or variable to be displayed.
INFO
Limitations
There is no cursor position evaluation for devices 8 through
11.
Cursor position 0
Cursor position 0 has a special meaning. The controller evaluates this parameter
performing the following steps:
Step
Description
1
The controller reads the content of MR 2814.
If...
... then...
... MR 2814 is greater than 0,
... the value is used as cursor
position.
... MR 2814 equals 0,
... the message is displayed
from the current cursor position
onwards.
Tab. 10: Cursor position 0
Example: MR 2814 = 0
DisplayText(
0
,
1
,
'Temp :'
);
DisplayValue(
0
,
0
, Temperature);
Result: The temperature is displayed directly after the colon from cursor posi-
tion 7 onwards.
LCD cursor positions
The following table shows the correlation between the cursor position as a com-
mand parameter and the position on the screen:
Designation
Line
Cursor position
LCD 16, LCD 110
1
1 ... 20
2
21 ... 40
3
41 ... 60
4
61 ... 80
LCD 23, LCD 25,
LCD 27, LCD 34
1
1 ... 24
2
25 ... 48
LCD 52, LCD 54(Z)
1
1 ... 16
2
17 ... 32
3
33 ... 48
4
49 ... 64
LCD 60
1
1 ... 40
2
41 ... 80
