Lenze PLC Designer PLC Designer (R3-1) - Manual (Page 100)

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Concepts and Base Components
98 DMS 4.1 EN 03/2011 TD29
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Support of Unicode format
If the Unicode format should be supported, the respective option must be activated in
the Visualization Manager. Further on a special compilation directive for the
application must be set: Select the application in the Devices tree, open the 'Properties'
dialog, category 'Build': In the Compiler defines field enter "VISU_USEWSTRING". Also
notice the necessary export of any language files, described in the following.
Export and Import of Textlists
Static and dynamic text lists can be exported in text- or xml-format. If a language file
is needed for a Target-Visualization, this must be provided by an explicit export of the
respective text list(s) in text format. Exported files also can be used for adding texts
externally, for example by an external translator. However notice that only files
available in text-format (*.txt, *.csv) can be re-imported.
See the description of the respective commands for details.
The folder in which the export files should be saved is to be specified in the
Visualization Project Settings.
Formatting of texts
The texts can contain formatting definitions (%s,%d,…), which i.a. allow to include the
current values of variables in a text. For the possible formatting strings see the help
page on text in visualization.
When later using a text, the replacement will be done in the following order of steps:
1. The actual text string to be used is searched via list name and ID.
2. If the text contains formatting definitions, those will be replaced by the value of the
respective variable.