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8.7 Start Visualization
The "Start Visualization", that is the visualization object which should be opened first
after login on the PLC with an application, must be inserted in the Devices window
below the respective application object.
If only one visualization is assigned to an application, that will be used as Start
Visualization automatically.
If several visualizations are assigned to the same application, the Start Visualization
must be explicitly defined in the Visualization Manager. In this case this option will be
deactivated automatically for the other visualization objects.
8.8 Frames, References, Interface - Placeholder
The »PLC Designer« V2.3 concept of visualization references and placeholders is
substituted by a similar concept in »PLC Designer« V3:
• Basically a visualization can be inserted in another visualization, thus getting
"referenced". For this purpose use the frame element which can enclose one or
several references to visualizations. Which visualizations are currently available for
getting inserted depends on their positions within the POUs or Devices trees in
relation to the current visualization.
• Each visualization can provide an interface (to be opened with the Interface Editor
command), where you can define input variables like usual for a function block.
These inputs work as "placeholders". In an instance (reference) of the visualization
they must be replaced by values or expressions for the specific usage in the local
object.
The replacement is to be done in the Properties view of the frame element
containing the visualization instance. Mind that the inputs of a visualization
instance assigned to a certain application must be assigned to valid application
variables.
• Toggling visualizations: If a frame element includes several visualizations (Frame
Configuration), you can configure the inputs on further visualization elements in a
way that they each effect the display of a particular visualization in the frame. The
Input Configuration for this purpose provides the option 'Switch
Framevisualization'.
Example: a visualization contains three buttons 1,2,3 and a frame having got
assigned the visualizations Visu1, Visu2 and Visu3. The buttons are configured in a
way (input: OnMouse-actions: change frame visualization) that activating a button
will display the assigned visualization. Thus - in contrast to »PLC Designer« V2.3 - in
one and the same visualization element various other visualizations and a "switch
board" can be displayed.