Dialog Options - Visualization

Function: The dialog is used to configure the visualization editor.

Call: TwinCAT > PLC Environment > Visualization

General tab

Dialog Options - Visualization 1:

These settings are only used for integrated visualization, i.e. not for the TwinCAT PLC HMI (TargetVisu) and TwinCAT PLC HMI Web display variants.

Presentation options

Fixed

Dialog Options - Visualization 2: The visualization retains its original size.

Isotropic

Dialog Options - Visualization 3: The visualization retains its proportions.

Anisotropic

Dialog Options - Visualization 4: The visualization adapts to the size of the window in the development system

Antialiased Drawing

Dialog Options - Visualization 5: The visualization is characterized by antialiasing methods, both during editing and as integrated visualization at runtime.

Tip: If a horizontal or vertical line is drawn out of focus on a specific visualization platform, this can currently be corrected by a 0.5 px shift in the direction of the line thickness; see item property Absolute motion, option Use REAL values. Requirement: The platform supports the use of REAL coordinates

Editing options

Linking to shift/key variable

<Dialog Options - Visualization 6: The placeholder <Shift/Key variable> in the visualization element properties is enabled.

If you drag an item with the property Color variables, color change into the visualization editor, this property will be configured with the placeholder <Shift/Key variable>.

The following items are affected: button, frame, image, line, circular sector, polygon, rectangle, text field, scrollbar

Grid tab

Grid

Visible

Dialog Options - Visualization 7: Grid lines are visible in the visualization editor at distance size

Active

Dialog Options - Visualization 8: Grid lines are active in the visualization editor at distance size. The items are aligned with the grid, all position values are on a grid line. An item that is already in a visualization when the grid is enabled is not automatically aligned. To do this, you must first drag it to another position.

The grid lines can be active and invisible

Size

Distance of the grid lines in pixels

File options tab

Text file for textual "List components".

File name and location of a file of type .csv. It contains a table with texts in the format of a text list.

The entries in the file are provided if the List components function is used as input assistant.

You create this file as an export file of the global text list using the Command Import/Export Text Lists.

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