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PRIMITIVE DESCRIPTIONS
CRIMSON USER MANUAL - MODULAR CONTROLLER
and Colors tabs from the Tags window, and allow you to change the various properties. Note
that a change made via this mechanism will change all the primitives controlled by that tag if
those primitives are configured to obtain their configuration from that source.
THE MULTI-LINE TEXT PRIMITIVES
The Multi-Line Status Text primitive is used to display an on-off value, but split
over several lines. This allows larger amounts of text to be shown, perhaps to
provide prompts or help information to the operator.
The Multi-Line Multi Text primitive is used to display one of a series of text
values, but split over several lines. This allows larger amounts of text to be
shown, perhaps to provide prompts or help information to the operator.
Each of these primitives is as the associated single-line primitive, except that they do not
support data entry. The text string to be displayed is broken into lines by the inclusion of
vertical bar (“|”) characters wherever a line-break is required.
THE TIME AND DATE PRIMITIVE
The Time and Date primitive is used to display the current time and date, or to
display the contents of a time and date expression. It can also be used to edit such
an expression, or to set the Master’s real time clock.
The properties of a time and date primitive are displayed using three tabbed pages.
The first page is shown below…
• The Value property is used to indicate the time and date value to be displayed. If
no value is entered, the current time and date is shown. If an expression is
entered, it is taken to represent the number of seconds that have elapsed since 1 st
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