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Us ing a Pre de fined Bitmap . . . . . 131
Graphics Li brar ies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
What are 'states'? . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Us ing Shape Li brar ies . . . . . . . . 134
Us ing Bitmap Li brar ies . . . . . . . . 142
Us ing Group Li brar ies . . . . . . . . 147
Chap ter 7 - Cre at ing and Us ing Da ta bases and
Lan guages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Cre at ing and Us ing the Tag Li brary . . . . 153
Im port ing and Ex port ing the Tag
Li brary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Us ing the Tag Li brary . . . . . . . . . 155
Cre at ing the La bel Li brary . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Im port ing and Ex port ing the La bel
Li brary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Us ing the La bel Li brary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Us ing Lan guages with the La bel
Li brary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Chap ter 8 - Rep re sent ing Data with Graphics
Ob jects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Us ing In ter nal Data Mem ory of OIT . . . . 163
Non-vol a tile Stor age of Sys tem
Pa ram e ters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
PLC Set tings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Gen eral Set tings . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Se cu rity Set tings. . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Rep re sent ing PLC Coil Reg is ters . . . . . . . 170
The Bit Lamp Ob ject. . . . . . . . . . 170
The Set Bit Ob ject . . . . . . . . . . . 173
The Tog gle Switch Ob ject . . . . . . 175
Rep re sent ing PLC Data Reg is ters . . . . . . 177
The Word Lamp Ob ject . . . . . . . 177
The Set Word Ob ject . . . . . . . . . 179
The MultiState Switch Ob ject . . . 182
The Nu meric Data Ob ject. . . . . . 184
The Nu meric In put Ex tend Ob ject 187
The ASCII Data Ob ject . . . . . . . . 191
The ASCII In put Ex tend Ob ject . . 192
The Mov ing Shape Ob ject . . . . . 194
The An i ma tion Ob ject . . . . . . . . 197
Chap ter 9 - Us ing and Cre at ing Keypads . . . . 201
How to Cre ate a Key pad . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Dis play ing and Us ing a Key pad . . . . . . . 204
Us ing the Built-In Nu meric Key pad in
EasyBuilder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Chap ter 10 - Bar Graphs, Me ters, and Trends . 213
Cre at ing Bar Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Cre at ing Dis play Me ters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Cre at ing Trend Dis plays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Cre at ing XY Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Chap ter 11 - Cap tur ing Alarms and Events . . . 223
Us ing Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Mon i tor ing Alarms with the Alarm Scan
Ob ject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Dis play ing Alarms us ing the Alarm Dis play
Ob ject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
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Dis play ing Alarms us ing the Alarm Bar
Ob ject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Us ing Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Mon i tor ing Events With the Event Log
Ob ject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Dis play ing Events Us ing the Event
Dis play Ob ject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Us ing Events for an Alarm His tory . . . . . 234
Us ing the Alarm His tory . . . . . . . 237
Chap ter 12 - Data and Rec ipe Trans fer Ob jects 239
Us ing the Data Trans fer Ob ject . . . . . . . 239
Us ing the Rec ipe Trans fer Ob ject . . . . . . 240
Cre at ing a Rec ipe. . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Chap ter 13 - Mac ros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Us ing Mac ros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Macro Sam ple and
Im ple men ta tion . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Vari ables, Dec la ra tions and Mem ory
Us age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Mem ory Us age: . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Vari able Dec la ra tions. . . . . . . . . 248
Vari able Ini tial iza tion . . . . . . . . . 249
Ar ray Ini tial iza tion . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Re served Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Op er a tor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Or der of Pre ce dence . . . . . . . . . 250
Main Func tions and
Sub-func tions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Lo cal and Global Vari ables . . . . 251
Cre at ing Vari able Ar rays . . . . . . 251
Us ing Mac ros Within Rec i pes . . . 251
Us ing 32-bit Reg is ters Within
Mac ros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Us ing Float ing Point Reg is ters Within
Mac ros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
State ments, Con di tions &
Ex pres sions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Func tion calls and pass ing pa ram e ters
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Read ing & Writ ing Ex ter nal Reg is ters
in a Macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Pre cau tions, tips & tricks when us ing
Mac ros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Com piler Er rors & Er ror Codes . . . . . . . . 257
Chap ter 14 - Us ing a Printer With the
HMI530T/550T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Con fig ur ing the HMI530T/550T for a
Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Print ing a Win dow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Us ing a Func tion Key . . . . . . . . . 262
Us ing PLC Con trol Ob ject. . . . . . 262
Us ing Sim u la tion Mode . . . . . . . 263
Print ing a Re port . . . . . . . . . . . . 263