L-force | plc designer – Lenze PLC Designer PLC Designer (R2-x) User Manual

Page 776

Advertising
background image

L-force | PLC Designer

PLC Designer Visualization

774

DMS 3.2 EN 02/2011 TD29



In column Action you define what should happen as soon as the key (combination)
will be pressed. Select the desired action from the list and insert an appropriate
expression. See in the following the available actions and valid expressions,
corresponding to those which can be set in the configuration dialog of category
'Input':

Action

Meaning

Expression

Toggle

Toggle variable

Variable, e.g."plc_prg.tvar"

Tap true

Tap variable (set to TRUE)

Program variable, e.g. "plc_prg.svar"

Tap false

Tap variable (set to FALSE)

Program variable, e.g. "plc_prg.xvar"

Zoom

Zoom to Vis.

Name of the visualization object to which you want to
jump, e.g. "Visu1"

Exec

Execute program

Name of the executable file, e.g. "notepad C:\help.txt"
(Notepad will start and open the file help.txt)

Text

Text input of variable
'Textdisplay'

Number of the element for which the text input is to be
configured, e.g. "#2" (Display of element numbers can
be switched on in 'Extras' 'Settings'; also see
'Elementlist...')

In column Expression you must enter – depending on the type of action – either a
variable name, a INTERN-command, a visualization name of a text string, exactly like
you would do in the configuration dialog of category 'Input' for the corresponding
visualization element.

Use button Add to add another empty line at the end of the table. Use the Delete
button to remove the line where the cursor is positioned currently. OK resp. Cancel
will save resp. not save the done settings and close the dialog.

The keyboard usage can be configured separately for each visualization object. Thus
the same key (combination) can start different actions in different visualization.

Example:

The following key configurations have been done for the visualizations VIS_1 and

VIS_2:

VIS_1:

Shift

Ctrl

Action

Key

Expression

x Toggle

A

PLC_PRG.automatic

x

Zoom

Z

VIS_2

Advertising