SFC Editor
Overview
The dialog box provides settings concerning the editing in an editor (Sequential Function Chart).
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The settings are to be made in grid units. One grid unit = font size currently set in the options ().
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step element height in grid units possible values: 1...100 |
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step element width in pixels in grid units possible values: 2...100 |
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action element display width in grid units possible values: 2...100 |
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qualifier display width in grid units possible values: 2...100. |
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property display width in grid units possible values: 2...100. |
These settings will affect all open SFC editors immediately.
Layout options in SFC
Options of the for step actions:
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When you copy the step, the reference to the action objects that are called by the step are also copied. The source step and new step call the same action. |
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The reference to the action objects that are called by the step are linked to this step. When you copy the step element, new action objects are created for the new step. The implementation is duplicated. |
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When you insert a step action, you are prompted whether the actions of a step element should be duplicated when it is copied, or whether the reference to the existing action should be used.
NOTE: If a step already contains an embedded action, new inserted actions of this step are also embedded. Likewise, new inserted actions are not embedded when the step already contains a non-embedded action. In these cases, you are not prompted to select the duplication mode.
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If the option is selected, action and transition objects that are embedded in the SFC block by a step are displayed as a node in the . |
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Here you can define which of the Element Properties (step attributes) should be displayed next to an element in the SFC editor view: The and the properties for each element type are shown in the table. You can activate the checkbox in the field in order to display the property value right to the element in each SFC object. If you additionally activate the checkbox in the field, the value will be preceded by the name of the property. |
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If the option is activated, in online mode, the current step time will be displayed to the right of each step element for which time properties are set. |
