Rockwell Automation 5370-CUPK Color CVIM USER-PAK Option User Manual

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Chapter 8

Defining Strings for Serial Ports and Viewports

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Example 2 – Using the Change Color Code

The

Graph

viewport, which plots the results of window 1 and 2, is headed

by the actual result values for the two windows. These two window results
were created by a single viewport string, and each result is colored to match
the respective window result being plotted. Generating the change in color
within the string required the used of a color code within the string text.

Figure 8.13 Example of changing colors in runtime displays

Example 2

In the string text shown below, the code

assigns a color (blue) to the part

of the string to the right of the code. Thus the first part of the string (the
window 1 results) is displayed in the color assigned through the

Color

Selection

menu, and the second part (window 2 results) is displayed in blue.

Note that both of the data codes in the string,

and

, include the format

code (–), which causes the window results to be left-justified within the
display field – this means, in this case, that the results are displayed
immediately after the “=” sign, with no intervening spaces.

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