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3.3 Meter Element

Fig. 3.3.1 Meter element options

Table 3.3.1 Property Description of Meter Element

Property Description of Meter Element
The users can set meter appearance in the property table, such as the style, the color (including border
color, background color, stitch color, scale color) and the scale region number, etc. Also, the max. & min.
value and high & low limit can be defined in Detail Setup dialog box. It can be used to calculate the specified
address and measure if it exceeds the limit or not. The users can also use various colors to show clearly and
this is convenience for the users to recognize.
Read Address It is used to set the read address. The link type can be Base Port or Internal
Memory. (Please refer to Table 3.2.2 Property Description of General Buttons.)
Text / Text Size The users can set the text, text size, font and text color that provided by Windows®
Font / Text Color to determine the text display on the element. (Please refer to Table 3.2.2 Property
Description of General Buttons.)
Border Color It is used to set the border color of meter element.
Background Color It is used to set the background color of meter element.
Style Standard Raised Sunken

Detail Setup Data There are 16bits Word and 32bits

Length Double Word two options.
Data There are following data format
Format provided:
Word/Double Word
1. BCD
2. Signed BCD
3. Signed Decimal
4. Unsigned Decimal

Minimum Value It is used to set the display minimum and maximum value.
Maximum Value

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Property Description of Meter Element

Target The users can decide if the target value display or not by using
Value this option. If this option is set, the target value and its color set
by the users will display just like the figure shown below: (Here
Color
we set the target value is 60 and its color is in blue.)

Ranges (Enable Please refer to the description of Low & High Region Color.
range setting)
Variable When the target value and low & high limit is a variable value,
target/range limits the low limit address is Read Address+1, the high limit address
is Read Address+2 and the address of target value is Read
Address+3.

Integral Digits Use this option to determine the digit number of integer and
decimal fraction. The digit number is not a real digit number
Fractional Digits value. It is only the display format.
When the users have input the target value, minimum and maximum value, after
pressing OK button, HMI will examine the value by referring to the selected data
length, data format, integral and fractional digits.
Low Region Color This option is available and displayed in the property table only when the “Ranges”
High Region Color option in the Detail Setup dialog box is selected. If the users set the low limit value is
30 and the color of low limit region is in green, and then set the high limit value is 70
and the color of high limit region is in red, the meter element will be shown as the
figure below:

Stitch Color It is used to set the stitch color of the meter element.
Scale Color It is used to set the scale color of the meter element.
It is used to set the scale region number of the meter element. The users can use
Scale Region Number the up or down buttons to increase or decrease the scale region number. The setting
rang is within 1 ~ 10.

Example of Meter Element:

Fig. 3.2.9 Example of Meter element

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