Message Texts - IDEC SMARTRELAY User Manual

IDEC SmartRelay functions
4.4 Special functions list - SF
4.4.25

Message texts

Short description
With the message text function block, you can configure a message that includes text and
other parameters for IDEC SmartRelay to display in RUN mode.
You can configure simple message texts from the IDEC SmartRelay onboard display.
WindLGC provides an extended set of features for message texts: bar graph representation
of data, names for digital I/O states and more. Refer to the WindLGC documentation for
information on these features.
Global message text settings
You configure global parameters that apply to all message texts on the programming menu:
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Analog time: refresh rate in milliseconds that specifies how frequently analog inputs in
message texts are updated
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Tick time: frequency at which message texts scroll on and off the display
There are two ways that a message text can tick on and off the screen: line by line, or
character by character, which are described in more detail below. A line of a text message,
or each character of a text message in turn will tick on and off the IDEC SmartRelay
onboard display based on the tick time. For a message that ticks line by line, the actual
tick time is ten times the configured tick time. For messages that tick character by
character, the actual tick time is the configured tick time.
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Current character set: which character set is selected for the display of message texts.
Options Set1 and Set2 can be any of the supported character sets for IDEC SmartRelay:
Character set in
IDEC SmartRelay
ISO8859-1
ISO8859-5
ISO8859-9
ISO8859-16
GB-2312
Shift-JIS
Of the 50 possible message texts that you can configure, you can select any number of them
to be from the first language and any number from the second language. For example, you
could configure 50 message text function blocks that have a single message text for
Character Set 1. Alternatively, you could configure twenty-five message text function blocks,
each of which has two message texts: one for Character Set 1 and one for Character Set 2.
Any combination is valid such that the total does not exceed 50.
Within a single message text, the text must be from one character set. You can edit message
texts in any of the supported character sets from WindLGC. From IDEC SmartRelay Basic,
you can only edit text using characters from the ISO8859-1 character set.
The language and therefore character set of a message text is independent of the language
setting for menus on the IDEC SmartRelay onboard display. They can be different.
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Common Supported languages
name
Latin-1 English, German,
Italian, Spanish
(partly), Dutch (partly)
Cyrillic Russian
Latin-5 Turkish
Latin-10 French
Chinese Chinese
Japanese Japanese
Internet reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-16
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB2312
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift-jis
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