Animating a Text Display

An animation of the text display can be configured in the property Font variables . All basic elements have this property as well as tables, scrollbars and text fields.

Example: animating the font size

Requirement: A project with a visualization is open.

1. Open the visualization and add an element Rectangle.

   ⇒ The view Properties displays the configuration of the element.

2. Configure the property Texts ‣ Text with Important:

3. In the application in the POU PLC_PRG, declare a type-compliant variable:

   ⇒ iFontHeight : INT;

4. Configure the property Font variables ‣ Size with PLC_PRG.iFontHeight.

5. Implement a change of the font size.

   ⇒ iFontHeight := iFontHeight + 1) MOD 20;

6. Compile, load and start the application.

   ⇒ The application runs. The visualization opens. The rectangle is labelled with Important. The font size grows from 1 to 20.

See also

• Visualization Element 'Rectangle', 'Rounded Rectangle', 'Ellipse'