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

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