Creating graphic displays, About graphic displays and graphic objects, Chapter 11 – Rockwell Automation 9301 Series RSView32 Users Guide User Manual
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Chapter
11
Creating graphic
displays
This chapter describes the Graphic Display editor and outlines how
to:
set up the drawing environment
draw, edit, and arrange graphic objects
use objects from the Graphic Library editor
About graphic displays and graphic objects
A graphic display represents the operator’s view of plant activity. The
display can show system or process data and provide operators with a
way to write values to an external device such as a programmable
controller. Operators can also print the display at runtime to create a
visual record of tag values.
The components that make up a graphic display are called graphic
objects. Objects can be:
created in the Graphic Display editor
dragged and dropped from a graphic library
copied and pasted from another Windows
®
application
created by another Windows application and inserted in the
graphic display using OLE (Object Linking and Embedding)
ActiveX
®
objects embedded in the graphic display