Use the Display Editor dialog to create and configure displays.


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You can open the Display Editor dialog using any of the following ways:

  • Click the

    Edit

    button on the menu

  • Click the

    Edit Displays

    button on the toolbar

You can close it multiple ways as well:

  • Click the

    X

    button

  • Keyboard shortcut applicable to the OS.

Display Editor toolbar

This dialog contains the following toolbar commands:

  • Add New Display

    – Adds a display row to the dialog and a tab to the

    Display view

    .

  • Delete Display

    – Deletes the selected display row from the dialog and removes the tab from the Display view.

  • Move Up / Down

    – Moves the selected display row up or down in the dialog, and accordingly rearranges the order of the tabs on the Display view.

Display row

Use the fields in the display row to enter the display

Name

, select the

Type

, and specify the number of

Symbols

. Use the [

Tab

] key to switch between the fields, as needed, or select the field using the mouse.

Name

Shows the names of configured displays: Display0, Display1, etc. Each name is unique. It may contain upper or lowercase letters, underscores, and digits. However, the first character cannot be a digit.

Type

Shows the types of displays to select from the pull-down menu:

  • Bar/Dial Graph

    – Consists of 2 or more pixels. The number of pixels (the bar graph length) is defined by the

    Symbols

    parameter. On the

    firmware layer

    , this type is considered as a non-symbolic display with one pixel per symbol. It supports up to 255 segments.


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  • 7-Segment Display

    – Consists of 7 segments per symbol.


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  • 14-Segment Display

    – Consists of 14 segments per symbol.


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  • 16-Segment Display

    – Consists of 16 segments per symbol.


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    Note:

    A decimal point/apostrophe/colon, or any other sign besides the segment display symbol, is not supported as a part of the symbol itself. These signs can be treated as stand-alone pixels.

  • Matrix Display

    – For a symbol sized 5 (width) x 8 (height) pixels.


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Symbols

The number of display types to include on the corresponding

Display view

tab.