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PLC Designer Visualization
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20.2 Create a new Visualization
A visualization object is a PLC Designer object which is managed in the 'Visualization'
register of the Object Organizer. It contains an arrangement of visualization elements
and can get certain object properties. One or several visualization objects can be
created in a PLC Designer project and might be linked with each other.
In order to create a visualization object in the Object Organizer, you must select the
register card for
Visualization in the Object Organizer.
Using the 'Project' 'Object Add' command, you can create a new visualization object.
Open the 'New visualization' dialog, in which you can enter the name of the new
visualization (see the remarks below). Once a valid entry is made, that is not a name
that is already in use and no special characters used, you can close the dialog with OK.
A window opens, in which you can edit the new visualization.
When the visualization object is marked in the Object Organizer, via command
'Project' 'Object' 'Properties' (see CoDeSys User Manual) the Properties dialog can be
opened, where you can make settings concerning the usage of the object in a Web- or
Target-Visualization as well as concerning a Master layout.
When defining the name of the visualization object, please regard the following:
• A visualization named "PLC_VISU" per default automatically will be used as start
visualization in a Target- or Web-Visualization resp. in CoDeSys HMI, if there not
explicitly another visualization is configured for this.
• A visualization may not get the same name as another object within the project
because this would result in problems when changing between visualizations.
Note!
If you want to use the implicit variable
CurrentVisu
(type STRING) for addressing the
currently opened visualization object, with compiler versions < V2.3.7.0 and if the
library SysLibStr.lib is not included in the project, you must use capital letters for the
names of the visualization objects (e.g. "PLC_VISU"). (For information on implicit
variables see here)