Object: CODESYS TargetVisu

Symbol:

Function: The object is used for configuring CODESYS TargetVisu in order to display the visualization directly on the controller of an integrated or connected panel.

Requirement: The CODESYS Control runtime environment is equipped with the CODESYS TargetVisu component. The object itself is inserted below the Visualization Manager.

CODESYS TargetVisu can be executed on different platforms, from embedded controllers to powerful PC-based systems on different operating systems. Therefore, it can be run on Windows, Windows Embedded CE, Linux, QNX, or VxWorks. A ready-made adaptation to the graphics interface of the systems is available on these operating systems. An adaptation is required for embedded controllers or other operating systems. In addition, there are device manufacturers that integrate visualizations into external applications by means of ActiveX controls.

Start Visualization

Name of the visualization where the start is displayed as CODESYS TargetVisu.

Hint: Use the Input Assistant to select another visualization.

Update rate (ms)

Refresh rate (in milliseconds) of the visualization

Example: 200

Show Used Visualizations

The link opens the Visualizations tab in the Visualization Manager editor.

The tab provides information about the visualizations downloaded to the display variants.

Scaling Options

Fixed

: Fixed size of the visualization (original size)

Isotropic:

: The size of the visualization is adapted to the dimensions of the web browser, retaining the proportions of the visualization.

Anisotropic:

: The size of the visualization is adjusted to the size of the display device, for example a screen.

Use scaling options for dialogs

: The dialogs (also for keypad and numpad) are scaled as the visualization (drawn with the same scaling factor). This is an advantage when a dialog was created to match the visualization because then they are scaled together.

Use automatically detected client size

: The visualization fills the screen of the display device completely.

Use specified client size

: The values in Client height and Client width are used for the size of the visualization. The visualization fills this screen area only.

Client height

Height of the visualization (in pixels).

Client width

Width of the visualization (in pixels).

Presentation Options

Antialiased drawing

: Antialiasing is used in the visualization editor for drawing a visualization as a TargetVisu and a TargetVisu variant.

Hint: If a horizontal or vertical line is drawn blurry on a specific visualization platform, then this can be corrected by an offset of 0.5px in the direction of the line thickness (see element Absolute movement property, Use REAL values option). Requirement: The platform in use supports REAL coordinates.

Default Text Input

Input with

 

Touchscreen

Text input on the display variant with touchscreen. The keypad or numpad dialog opens.

Keyboard

Text input on the display variant with an ordinary keyboard or a virtual keyboard (on Linux for example)

Effect:

When you configure a user input for default text input, select an input configuration for input action Write Variable, and configure the Input type as Default, then the settings are used here.