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Generating user dialogs
1.13 Sidescreen application
1.13 Sidescreen application
1.13.1 Easy XML in the Sidescreen
The Easy XML scripting language can also be used to create dialogs in the Sidescreen area.
The Sidescreen components Page and Widget are available for displaying the dialogs. The
connection is made via the slsidescreen.ini file. Sidescreen components are automatically
started when the operating software starts up and are only terminated when the system shuts
down. This means that the parser loads the assigned scripts once when the Sidescreen
component is activated for the first time.
The dimension of the Sidescreen area is determined by the layout parameters from the
slsidescreen_<screen resolution>.ini file. To enable independent configuration, the usable
width for Easy XML scripts is 276 pixels. The usable height of an Easy XML dialog depends
on the Sidescreen component used. For a page, 768 pixels are available. For a widget, the
height is determined by the Sidescreen management and can be queried with the
GETHMIResolution function.
The script parser expects a menu to activate a shape or branch to other shapes. The main
menu must be named main. Sidescreen does not support softkey tags, so that you need to
navigate to other shapes using an operator control for the shape.
The number of Sidescreen pages or Sidescreen widgets is not limited by the parser.
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