Ns Series Screen Types; Display Colors - Omron NS Programming Manual

Section 2 NS Series Functions
NS Series Programming Manual

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Display Colors

Up to 256 colors can be used in NS Series displays (16-grayscale monochrome display for the
NS5-MQ). BMP and JPEG images can be displayed with up to 32,000 colors (4,096 colors for the
NS5-SQ, 16 grayscales for the NS-5-MQ).
Select the color to be displayed from the Color setting Dialog Box displayed when creating screens
using CX-Designer.
An alternative indirect method for specifying display colors is to change the display color based on the
contents of a set address.
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BMP and JPEG files created with more than 32,000 colors will be reduced to 32,000 colors for
display.
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Set a color code of between 0 and FF at the communications address to indirectly specify the
display color. If a value other than 0 to FF is set at the address, the display color will be undefined.
Monochrome Display
The NS5-MQ@@-V2 features 16-grayscale monochrome display. All display colors are converted to 16
grayscale levels. Even BMP, JPEG, and other color image data is internally converted by the NS5-MQ
and displayed in 16 grayscale levels.
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Although screen data for the NS5-MQ @@ -V2 is displayed in 16 grayscale levels on the
CX-Designer displays and the NS5-MQ @@ -V2 screen, the data will be displayed in color if it is con-
verted to data for a PT model with color displays on the CX-Designer or transferred to a PT with a
color display screen. The color codes that are used when creating the screen data for the
NS5-MQ @@ -V2 will be displayed for screen data and the image colors will be used for BMP and
JPEG data.
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All screen data created for PTs with color displays will be displayed in 16 grayscale levels on the
CX-Designer if the screen data is converted for the NS5-MQ @@ -V2 or it is transferred to the
NS5-MQ @@ -V2.
Through Display
If layers of objects are displayed, the background color for the object on top will normally overwrite the
object underneath and the bottom object will no longer be visible.
Some objects can be set so that the background will not be filled.
If the object is set for no tiling, the background of the object will not have a color and other objects un-
der the background or the screen background color will show through.
Tiling background No tiling
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