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Cursor position 0
Example: MR 2814 = 0
LCD cursor positions
Application-oriented manual – Control of alphanumeric HMIs (LCD) and printers
3.4 Cursor position
This parameter defines the position on the screen of the first character of a text
string or variable to be displayed.
INFO
Limitations
There is no cursor position evaluation for devices 8 through
11.
Cursor position 0 has a special meaning. The controller evaluates this parameter
performing the following steps:
Step
Description
1
The controller reads the content of MR 2814.
... MR 2814 is greater than 0,
... MR 2814 equals 0,
Tab. 10: Cursor position 0
DisplayText(0, 1,
DisplayValue(0, 0, Temperature);
Result: The temperature is displayed directly after the colon from cursor posi-
tion 7 onwards.
The following table shows the correlation between the cursor position as a com-
mand parameter and the position on the screen:
Designation
LCD 16, LCD 110
LCD 23, LCD 25,
LCD 27, LCD 34
LCD 52, LCD 54(Z)
LCD 60
If...
'Temp
:');
Line
1
2
3
4
1
2
1
2
3
4
1
2
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... then...
... the value is used as cursor
position.
... the message is displayed
from the current cursor position
onwards.
Cursor position
1 ... 20
21 ... 40
41 ... 60
61 ... 80
1 ... 24
25 ... 48
1 ... 16
17 ... 32
33 ... 48
49 ... 64
1 ... 40
41 ... 80
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