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Introduction to <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Components</strong> 2.3<br />

4.8.4.3 Data Point<br />

The process variable to be displayed is selected under Source. A process variable which is not in the Source list<br />

can be selected from the variable dialog box using the Assign... button.<br />

The inserted tag consists of the formatting and the process variable in brackets. Text and tags can be inserted<br />

individually. The number of tags in Text Groups is limited to a maximum of 4 per text and language.<br />

The same procedure is used with alarm texts. However, texts are limited to a maximum of 4 numeric<br />

variables regardless of how many languages are configured.<br />

4.9 VC Project Multilingual Capabilities<br />

<strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Components</strong> provides the opportunity to create projects in several languages. These languages are<br />

configured during project creation. Picture contents can also be viewed in several languages in the picture<br />

editor. In this way, screen page changes can be checked using different texts.<br />

The editor also allows language texts to be exported in either a .CSV format (Excel) or plain text. Texts can be<br />

translated there and then imported back into the <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Components</strong> editor.<br />

The language can then be switched to a different language layer during runtime. The picture on the display is<br />

redrawn after the language variable is changed.<br />

It is also possible to activate and deactivate configured languages. If the project is recompiled, then only the<br />

active text layers are compiled which changes the project size on the target system.<br />

The necessary steps for creating a multilingual project are explained in the following sections. The sections<br />

contain a step−by−step example and should be read in order.<br />

4.9.1 Project Multilingual Capabilities<br />

4.9.1.1 Adding and Activating Text Layers<br />

A text layer indicates all the texts which belong to a language and can be compiled. Static texts, dynamic texts,<br />

and alarm system texts are all parts of text layers.<br />

By default, a new project is created with only one text layer. This text layer is called 'Default'. All configured text<br />

layers can be seen in the project tree under 'Languages'.<br />

4.8.4.3 Data Point 365

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