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CONFIGURING THE COLOR VIRTUAL HMI
PRIMITIVE DESCRIPTIONS
The Quarter Dial Gauge primitive functions as does the full dial gauge, but
displays a pointer with a 90º swing within a quarter-circle. All the other
formatting and display options remain the same.
Just as with other rich primitives, the dial gauge primitives are capable of deriving much of
the required formatting information from the tag used as their controlling value. Just as with
tag text primitives, multiple tabbed pages are used to edit the primitives’ properties.
The first of these pages is shown below…
• The Value property is used to define the value to be displayed.
• The Show Label property is used to indicate whether a label should be included
with the gauge. The label is displayed in the center of the primitive, above the
optional value. If a tag is used for the value property, the label may be obtained
from that tag. Otherwise, it must be entered on the Format tab of the dialog box.
• The Show Value property is used to indicate whether the value of the data should
be displayed within the gauge. If a tag of the appropriate data type is used for the
value property, the format may be obtained from the tag. Otherwise, as with the
label, it must be entered on the Format tab.
• The Get From Tag properties are used to indicate from where the label text, the
field format and the text colors should be obtained. The options presented
depend on what was entered for the Value property. In each case, you may
manually enter the data in the appropriate properties, or, assuming a suitable
expression has been defined, you may instruct the primitive to get the required
information from the underlying data tag.
• The Orientation property is used to indicate the direction in which the scale’s
minor tick-marks should point. The major tick-marks always point inwards.
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