Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 319)

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where Application Name is the name of your application.
5. Click Open. The display is copied into the Libraries folder.
Use libraries as displays in your application
The graphic libraries are available on the development computer, but do not appear at run
time. To use a library as a graphic display at run time, you must add the library into your
application’s folder of graphic displays.
If the library doesn’t contain strings for languages supported by the current application,
the undefined strings are shown with question marks (?).
To use a library as a display in your application
1. In the Explorer window, in the Graphics folder, right-click the Displays icon.
2. Click Add Component Into Application.
3. In the dialog box, navigate to the Libraries folder, and then click the .gfx file for the
library to use.
The Libraries folder is located in:
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents\RSView Enterprise\ME
(Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003)
or
\Users\Public\Public Documents\RSView Enterprise\ME
(Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server
2008, and Windows Vista)
4. Click Open. The library is copied into the Displays folder.
Use libraries to store displays with multiple languages
The maximum number of languages an application can use is 40 during development, and
20 at run time. Since the libraries are stored outside of the HMI project folder and are
available to all applications, they do not have this limit. However, since they are not stored
in the HMI project folder, you cannot export the strings in library displays for translation.
Instead, export a graphic display for translation, import the translated strings, then add the
display into the library.
When you use a library display in your application, make sure you add to your application
the languages that you plan to use from the library.