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Press the function key and pop-up Frame 10 will cover the function key, which is caused by the

transparency of 0% for Frame 10, as shown below.

• When the transparency is 20%.

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Perform the offline test and press the function key, the displayed effect is shown as below.

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• When the transparency is 80%.

Perform the offline test and the effect is as shown below.

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Screen Creation

Clicking the

icon in [Screen Toolbar] can create a new screen.

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Screen Opening

After the screen is created, the previous screen can be displayed by selecting it in the pull-down menu

in [Screen Toolbar] or by clicking the

icon, and the next screen can be displayed by clicking

the

icon. If the mouse with the roller is used, the screen No. can be changed directly by using the

roller.

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Screen Deletion

In Project Work Space, select the screen No. to be deleted, and press the “Delete” key in the keyboard

or click the

icon in [Screen Toolbar]. When the Confirm Screen pops up, select “Yes” to delete this

screen, and all the components in this screen will be deleted and can’t be restored. Please be careful

when you use this function.

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Note Frame 0, Frame 1 to Frame 9 are all the default screens for the system, and they are not allowed to be

deleted.

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Components Related to Screen

The function keys which are directly related to the screen operations include: Change Screen,

Backward, Change Common Screen, Pop-up Screen and Change Menu Screen. Components which

are directly related to the screen operations include: Direct Screen and Indirect Screen. For the

contents of these components, refer to 3-6-16 Indirect Screen (Page 3-147) and 3-6-17 Direct Screen

(Page 3-150).

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Basic Design Method

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Designing Components

Generally speaking, one screen includes various kinds of components such as switches, lamps,

number input and shapes. It is simple to add one component to the screen, and it is basically divided

into 3 procedures as shown below.

z Component Addition

1

Drag the component icon from [Project Library Window]-[Parts] to the Edit Window.

2

When the Property dialog box of this component appears, set the various Properties for this

component such as PLC Read/Write Address, Vector Graphics or Bitmap, Label and Position

etc.

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After the various Properties of this component are set, click the [OK] button. And you can see

this component has been placed in the screen after exiting from this dialog box. If required, you

can adjust the size of the component by changing settings in “Position” in “Display Setting” tab

or drag it to the desired position.

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About ID No.

ID No. is the number automatically assigned to the component for differentiating the components on the

PT. The designer cannot change component ID number artificially.

The contents represented by ID No. are as follows:

BL0

0: Component No,

BL: Bit

Lamp

Parts:

SB: Bit Button

BL: Bit Lamp

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SW: Bit Switch

DW: Direct Screen

SWD: Command Button

WL: Word Lamp

MSW: Word Switch

SCR: Scroll Bar

MV: Moving Component

ANI: Animation

AD: Alarm

TR: Data Log

XY: XY Graph

BR: Level Meter

MT: Analog Meter

RCP: Recipe

ED: Event

IDW: Indirect Screen

ND: Number Display

TD: Text Display

NI: Number Input

TI: Text Input

OS: Oscillograph

NB: Note Book

NL: Word Neon Lamp

BNL: Bit Neon Lamp

TT: Touch Trigger

GR: Table

HDD: Data History

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Function Parts:

SC: Scale

FK: Function Key

AB: Alarm Display

TM: Timer

BG: Bitmap

VG: Vector Graphic

NP: Notepad

DT: Data Transmission

VM: Freeplotting

DTM: Date/Time Display

DG: Indirect Shape

UID: User Information

CO: Multifunction

EB: Event Display

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Additional Comments (Descriptions)

If necessary, you can add comments to each component. The comments are used for entering remarks

or descriptions of the program on creation. Therefore, the descriptions entered as the comments will be

referred in future or the text entered will be used to describe when the text is printing. The entered

comments will not cause any effects to the program. (The NB-Designer does not support comment

printing.)

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Read/Write Address for PLC

The correct area and address range vary with the PLC. In the following figure, PLC0 is manufactured

by OMRON, while PLC1 is manufactured by SIEMENS, so their addresses are different.

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All the available PLC devices can be displayed in the pull-down menu corresponding to “PLC No.”

option.

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The internal memory can be also selected, And the descriptions of internal memory are as follows:

Type

Device Name

Range

Descriptions

Bit

LB

0~9999

The address of the local memory

Bit

RBI

0.0~261000.F(*1)

The index address of the recipe memory that is

stored in the flash memory in D.H. format and H

ranges from 0 to 15.

Bit

RB

0.0~261000.F(*1)

The absolute address of the recipe memory that

is stored in the flash memory in D.H. format and

H ranges from 0 to 15.

Bit

FRB

0.0~134217727.F

The absolute address of the flash memory in

D.H. format and H ranges from 0 to 15.

Bit

FRBI

0.0~134217727.F

The index address of the flash memory in D.H.

format and H ranges from 0 to 15.

Bit

LW.B

0.0~10255.F

The address of the local memory in D.H. format

and H ranges from 0 to 15.

Word

LW

0~10255

The address of the local memory

Word

RWI

0~261000(*2)

The index address of the recipe memory that is

stored in the flash memory

Word

RW

0~261000(*2)

The absolute address of the recipe memory that

is stored in the flash memory

Word

FRW

0~134217727

The absolute address of the flash memory

Word

FRWI

0~134217727

The index address of the flash memory

Word

ERW0~ERW2

0~2147483647

External Recipe Word Memory is available by

connection with the external memory.

RB and RW point to the same area. For example, RB5.0~RB5.15 and RW5 map the same area, i.e.

RB5.0 is the Bit0 of RW5. But the addresses pointed by LB and LW in the memory are different,

because they map the different areas.

The memory addresses of LB9000~LB9999 in LB, LW.B9000.0~LW.B10255.F in LW.B, and

LW9000~LW10255 in LW are reserved by the system internally for some special purposes, and the

users can’t use them as the addresses for the common devices, but should use their special functions

according to the related manuals. For details, refer to 3-11 Address of System Memory (Page 3-328).

When the recipe memory is accessed by the index address, the index address will begin to search from the address

of the offset of the address displayed by LW9000. For example: If LW9000 is 50, the index address RWI100 will

access the data in the address of RW150 (100+50). (For details, refer to 3-12 Recipe Data (Page 3-343).)

*1

When using NB3Q-TW01B or NB5Q-TW01B, the range of addresses is 0.0 to 130500.F.

*2

When using NB3Q-TW01B or NB5Q-TW01B, the range of addresses is 0 to 130500.

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Vector Graphic

NB-Designer provides the powerful Vector Graphics and bitmap library, and you can create any desired

graphics (such as switch, lamp, piping etc.) in the library and even you can add your own pictures to the

library. The graphics can be 256-color bitmap, 16-color bitmap, 32-color bitmap or in JPG, BMP, GIF

and PNG format. Every vector graphics or bitmap can create 256 statuses. The created Vector

Graphics and bitmap are in [Graphics] in [Project File Window], as shown below:

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Of course, you can use the graphics library provided by the system. When you click the

[Import

Graphics] icon in the toolbar, the following dialog box will pop up:

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The system graphics library is located in bg_vg_lib\VG directory in which the NB-Designer was installed

and all the graphics are stored in the folders for each item. Select the Vector Graphics to be imported,

and click “Import”, then the Vector Graphics will be copied into the “vg” file of the current project.

Importing multiple Vector Graphics or bitmaps simultaneously is not supported and only one graphics in

the same folder can be selected at a time before “Import” is clicked. All the imported or created Vector

Graphics or bitmaps by the user in the whole project will be displayed in the [Vector Graphic] in [Project

File Window] to facilitate the user to view and use them.

The vector graphics can be used as static images or the images representing the status of various

components.

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z Procedure of Vector Graphics addition

1

Select [Add Graphics] in the [Draw] menu or click

icon in the toolbar, and then the

following dialog box will appear.

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Input the Name, State No. and Description for the Vector Graphics (For example: To create a

Vector Graphics with the name of “Middle” and the state No. of “2”), and click “OK”, then the

following dialog box will appear:

If you think the Vector Graphics states added just now are not enough, you can use the following

methods to make addition:

Drag the mouse into State Preview Window of the Vector Graphics, select one state such as “state0”,

then click

icon in the toolbar to create a new state. And the states that can be created are up to

256 kinds.

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Create the graphics displayed in these two statuses, and then save the project.

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Go back to the Edit Window, and select one component, as shown below:

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Check [Vector Graphics] in the [Graphics] tab of Bit Button Property dialog box, and find the

name of the graphics created just now in the list, and then you can check the graphics at the

specific status each.

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Click the [OK] button to exit from this dialog box, and this component will be displayed as the

selected Vector Graphics and placed in the screen.

All the Vector Graphics imported into the project will be displayed in the [Project File Window].

If you want to modify any Vector Graphics or bitmap, you just need to find the graphics to be modified in

the Vector Graphic in the Project File Window, and double-click it to open the Edit Window of this

graphics, where you can modify the graphics drawn by yourself.

Note 1

When the new graphics was created, the project should be saved to keep the contents. Otherwise the con-

tent will be lost.

2

No text can be added to the Vector Graphics.

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Bitmap

One bitmap includes 256 kinds of states and the created bitmap can be used in the Edit Window. The

bitmap is mainly applicable to graphic area, i.e. external graphics addition.

Note The operations (such as line-drawing, drawing, text addition etc.) for the bitmaps can’t be made in the

Graphics Edit Window, and only the external graphics addition can be done.

z Procedure of bitmap addition

1

Select [Add Graphics] in the [Draw] menu or click

icon, and then the following dialog box

will appear.

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2

Select [Bitmap] in the “Type”, and input “State No.” and “Name”, then click “OK”.

If you think the bitmap state added just now is not enough, you can use the following methods to make

addition:

Drag the mouse into State Preview Window of the bitmap, select one state such as “state0”, then

click

icon in the toolbar to create a new state. And the states that can be created are up to 256

kinds.

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Click [Draw Toolbar]

icon, find the needed graphics, and click it to open it. Only the

pictures can be input into bitmap and the tools such as “Line” can’t be used in the bitmap, as

shown below.

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After the project is saved, you can use it through the bitmap component in the Edit Window.

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z Use of Bitmap

1

Double-click the component where the bitmap will be used and then enter “Graphics” tab.

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2

Check “Bitmap” option, and select the bitmap you want to use, then click “OK” button to close

the dialog box.

z Import of Bitmap

1

You can import the bitmap just like importing the Vector Graphics. Click “Import Graphics”

icon

, and select “Bitmap image (*.bg)” in the “Type” in the pop-up dialog box. You can

also import the bitmap used in the other project or the System Graphics Library. The system

graphics library is located in bg_vg_lib\VG directory in which the NB-Designer was installed

and all the graphics are stored in the folders for each item.

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In the same project, the bitmap and the Vector Graphics are placed in the same location, i.e.

“VG” folder under “Project File” folder. And all the imported bitmaps are stored in

“project\<project file name>\image” folder. Don’t delete these pictures; otherwise the graphics

library will not be displayed normally.

Note There is no limitations for the size of the graphics imported (BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG), and the graphics will be

compressed according to the maximum used size (The maximum used size = Maximum length × Maximum

Width in the project) during the compilation.

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Creating Label

Label refers to the text displayed in the surface of the components such as switch, lamp or the other

components.

z Label Addition

1

Select [Label] in the Property page of the selected component.

2

Check “Transport Font”.

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As shown below, write the contents to be displayed for the label in [Message].

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Set the display Properties such as the alignment method, font size and color etc.

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Press the [OK] button to complete the setup.

z State Number

State number is only effective for the component with multiple states. The text for every state can be

displayed independently. The text, font, color and alignment method for the corresponding state can

be set after the state is selected.

z Message

Input the text to be displayed in the component surface here. If there are several lines, you can use

“Enter” key to break them.

z Font Size

The size of Bitmap Font is as follows: 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 72, 96, 120 and 144 pixels.

z Position

When the input text for the label is 2 lines or more, Left, Right or Center can be selected for the

alignment between the upper line and the lower line.

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z Color

You can select color among 40 colors (65536 colors, which include supplementary colors). “Default

Color” palette contains the most commonly-used colors. “Custom Color…” palette allows the users

to customize the palette (65536 kinds of colors available).

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Task Bar and Operation Buttons

NB-Designer provides a simple method (i.e. the Task Bar) to make the screen pop up or be minimized,

to change the display of the screen and fast switch the screen display etc.

Task Bar has 2 operation buttons, one of which is used to control the Menu Screen, and the other is

used to control the Task Bar.

You can set the Properties such as the Task Bar, whether to use the Menu Screen, color and position

and so on in the [PT Property] in the Configuration and Setup Window. (By default, all the options in the

Display Task Bar are checked.)

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If “Menu Screen” is checked, one Menu Screen will pop up when the Menu Screen button at the left

side is pressed. Function keys put in the Menu Screen allow the different screen switched. Because the

Menu Screen is always displayed on all of the screens, therefore it can be operated at any time. If you

want to switch to a certain screen, it just needs to press the function key pointing to the destination

screen once, thus avoiding the boring process of looking for the screen.

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In the task bar, 16 icons can be arranged at the same time. The functions keys of [Minimize] or [Title

Bar in Pop-up Screen] included in Pop-up Screen allow the screens to minimize in the task bar. For

details, refer to 3-7-2 Function Key (Page 3-201).

z Process of Operation Button Setup

Double click PT in the Configuration and Setup Window. Then the PT Property dialog box will appear,

and set [Display Task Bar], whether the operation button will locate in the left side or right side of the

screen, the background color and the text position method of the taskbar in [Task Bar] tab. If the label

isn’t displayed completely, you can adjust the width or the height of the button area and the font size of

the label to solve this problem.

Note The Menu Screen is displayed on the left side or the right side of the panel during the operation. In edit

window state, the Menu Screen is an independent screen, and it is Frame 2 by default. For details, refer to 3-

10-2 Task Bar (Page 3-292).

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Fonts

z Type and Characteristics of Font

NB-Designer provides 3 available fonts, i.e. Bitmap Font, graphic font and vector font. The

characteristics of these three fonts will be described as follows:

Bitmap Font :

One bitmap font is prepared for each character. But this method has obvious disadvantages:

(a) Only SimSun is supported.

(b) The scaling effect is poor. For each character, 3 kinds of bitmaps (i.e. 8×8, 16×8, 24×16(height ×

width)) are reserved respectively, so the effect is very poor when the larger font is displayed, as

shown below:

(c) Single-byte character may be treated as double-byte character. ASCII code is treated as a single-

byte character, but the other character are converted to double-byte character in the software.

Therefore, a character varies in its width for each character (such as Russian) cannot be displayed

correctly.

Therefore, this method has the obvious disadvantages for the project with multiple languages.

Graphic Font:

Graphic font is converted to one bitmap and stored in the project. This method can make full use of the

fonts installed in Windows and the display effect is good.

(a) The capacity of the project becomes greater. There are 2 reasons for the large space needed for

saving the character string as bitmap. First, bitmap format itself needs a large space. For example:

Four characters “

” displayed in Zero SimSun needs 1824 bytes, as shown below:

In addition, the bitmap font should be intercepted again if the content, size or colors vary slightly,

thus causing a linear increase in the occupied space.

When a character is converted as a bitmap, it is converted as the unit of character string, not the

unit of the character. Even if a similar character is different with its content, font size, color, the

character is converted as an individual bitmap. As the converted bitmaps are stored in the NB

project file for each character string with different properties as above, the capacity occupied with

the fonts should be increased in the project.

(b) Text library or some component labels do not support the graphic font.

Vector Font:

The characters used for labels or supposed to be used in future are abstracted through specified fonts

by NB-Designer. Only the abstracted characters are stored as True Type font (ttf style) and can be

used by the NB-Designer units.

Using vector font in NB-Designer can avoid the disadvantages of Bitmap Font and graphic font.

Vector font has the following advantages:

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(a) Limitations to ASCII codes for the vector font: The text contents used for the component dealing

with text string often can’t be decided during the compilation of the project, and due to the

limitations to the storage capacity, all the characters that may be used can’t be downloaded to the

PT. Therefore, these components can only use ASCII characters (The matrix information

supporting all the ASCII characters for this font have been downloaded to the PT by the software.)

when using the vector font.

(b) Unicode character encoding. When the Bitmap Font and the Unicode are selected simultaneously,

you can use the function key to input Unicode character to the text input component.

6 Time Component

Time component can display the information such as year, month, day, hour, minute, second and

week etc. of the current system in the simplest way.

When the vector font is selected, the time will be displayed according to the set vector font.

7 List and Drop-down List

List and drop-down list options are available for selection in the Word Switch component, and in

such state, the label for the component is listed as the list. Similarly, fonts can be set for each

language and each state.

8 Alarm and Event Information

Alarm and event information component can also set different vector fonts for each piece of alarm

information and for each language (When the text library is used.) respectively.

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Use of Font Toolbar

The software provides the toolbar for convenient font operation. When you select one or more

components, you can use the font toolbar to change the font Properties of the related components.

Please pay attention to the following conditions:

(a) The font attributes set through the toolbar for the current state and current language. If the

attributes of other states and languages need to be changed, you can do it through the component

dialog box or by changing the current state or the current language of the project, as shown below:

(b) When multiple components are selected, if the component doesn’t support a certain font attribute,

the attribute of this component will not be affected by using the font toolbar to set the font attribute.

z Notes for Using Vector Font

Based on the special realizing method for the vector font, the following conditions should be paid

attention to when the vector font is used:

1 If the font which is not supported for text to be displayed is used, the font cannot be displayed

correctly.

For example, if you want to display four characters “

” using Arial font, but because these

four characters are not included in the Arial character set, so four square boxes will be displayed in

this case, as shown below. Therefore, you must select the fonts supporting text to be displayed.

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2 Use the vector font as much as possible if the smaller capacity of project file is preferable.

Because the Bitmap Font and graphic font have many disadvantages in the storage space and

resizing etc, therefore, use the vector font as much as possible.

3 The types of the vector font can be reduced when the screen can meet the requirements.

If too many types of vector fonts (e.g. dozens or more) are used by the user, the number of font

files will be too many, thus affecting the compilation speed, downloading speed and screen

switching speed.

4 Install the same fonts for all the PC environments to edit text strings.

If a certain project uses “Microsoft Elegant Black” font when it is edited on PC, and when it is

transferred to another PC where no “Microsoft Elegant Black” font exists for editing, then all the

“Microsoft Elegant Black” characters used in the project will be changed to arbitrary font which is

decided as optimal by the operation system.

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Note When the font installed with Windows is used, use it only after confirming the font will not give rise to

problems under the Copyright Law.

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Basic Properties of Component

Basic Properties of Component

Priority

It is pre-reserved for the function.

Write

If the component supports read only, you cannot set to writing addresses. The status of the components will

Address

be displayed based on the reading addresses.

PT

Number of the controlled PT. The numbers are allocated automatically when the PT is

placed on [Configuration and Setup Window].

PLC No.

Number of the controlled PLC. The numbers are allocated automatically when the PLC

is placed on [Configuration and Setup Window].

Change Station

This option can be used to access the specific PLC during the communication with

Number

multiple PLCs. This option is applicable when editing only one PLC in the case one PT

is connected with multiple devices or multiple PTs are connected with multiple devices.

Area/Variable

Refers to the memory of PLC device to be controlled or the internal memory of the PT.

For the internal address type of PT, refer to 3-5-4 Read/Write Address for PLC (Page 3-

59).

Address

Specifies address to be written to.

Data Format

The code type includes BIN, BCD, and LSB. When BIN or BCD code is used, it allows

to display 256 of statuses at maximum and when LSB code is used, it allows to display

17 of statuses at maximum. (Refer to 10 LSB Type (Page 3-379) in the section 3-16).

Word Length

Refers to the number of the occupied memories. The default number is 1, and it varies

with the different component or area/variable.

System memory

Refers to the internal memories provided by the PT for some special purposes. For

details, refer to 3-11 Address of System Memory (Page 3-328).

Format (Range)

Refers to the formats of the address types of the PLC memories or the internal memory

address of the PT.

Use Variable

Determines whether to use the addresses registered in the variables. For details, refer

to 3-8-2 Variable Table (Page 3-244).

Use the index

Determines whether to use the specified memory as the index memory for the control

memory

memory of the current component. The new [Read/Write Address] = the specified

[Read/Write Address] + [Index Address]. For example, when the specified written

address is D100 and the index memory address is LW0, if LW0=10, the new write

address is D100+10=D110.

Read

If the component supports write only, you cannot set to reading addresses. The status of the components

Address

will be displayed based on the writing addresses.

Description

Refers to the reference name assigned to the current component (not displayed).

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Control Setting of Component

Control Setting of Component

Option

Descriptions

Touch

Enable

Checking this option means the state value can be written into the controller by triggering the

Enabling

Input

effective area for the current component.

Setting

Disable

Checking this option means the state value cannot be written into the controller even when

Input

triggering the effective touching area for the current component.

Conditional

Security Level: Checking this option means only when the security level of the operator is

Enabling

higher than the minimum security level already set, the current component can be touched,

and the state value can be written into the controller.

User Permission Control: Checking this option means the operator must have the permission

to touch the current component and write the state value into the controller.

Indirect reference: Checking this option means only when the state of the specified bit memory

or word memory meets the set conditions, the current component can be touched, and the

state value can be written into the controller.

Auto show

Checking this option means the Password Input Screen Frame 9 (Login

login screen

screen) will pop up automatically for the user to login when the security level

or the permission of the current user doesn’t meet the requirement of the set

level or authority.

Show

Checking this option allows Unable-to-Input figure will be displayed when the component is in

Unable-to-

invalid to input. This function is optional only when [Enable Input] or [Conditional Enabling] is

Input

checked; and touching invalid color can be set in [PT Property]-[PT Extended Properties].

Security

ON Delay

When the current component is pressed consecutively for this set time, the state value can be

Setting

written only to the controller. The minimum unit is 100 ms. When this option is 0, this function is

invalid.

Confirm

Checking this option means the Confirmation Screen will pop up automatically when the

Operation

current component is touched, and the state value can be written into the controller when

“YES” is clicked, while the operation will be cancelled automatically when the user have clicked

“Cancel” or haven’t confirmed “YES” after the set “wait[s]” is exceeded.

Operation

Checking this option means the operation event will be recorded, and displayed through the

Log

operation log element and the file in CSV format will be saved into the external memory.

Min Inteval

Refers to the minimum interval between 2 operations for the same component or different

components. The minimum unit is second. When this option is 0, the minimum interval is

invalid.

Triggering

Macro

Checking this check box allows the macro which was specified before the current operation

action

was completed will be triggered and executed. *

Write

Word

Notice Before

Writes the write-value into the specified address before the

Notice

Written

current operation is performed successfully.

Notice After

Writes the write-value into the specified address after the

Written

current operation is performed successfully.

Bit

Notice Before

Writes ON/OFF signal into the specified address before

Written

the current operation is performed successfully.

Notice After

Writes ON/OFF signal into the specified address after the

Written

current operation is performed successfully.

* Please refer to 3-9-3 Macro Triggering (Page 3-273).

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z Example of Control Setting

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Example: Setting the parameters as below to enable the value input to LW0 when LB10 is ON.

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1 Perform the offline test. When LB10 is OFF, the input by the number input component is invalid,

and the icon indicating [Unable-to-Input] is displayed, as shown in the following left graphics.

2 When LB10 is ON, the input by the number input component is valid, and the icon indicating

[Unable-to-Input] isn’t displayed as shown in the following right graphics.

z Example of Security Setting

Example: Set LW0 to the address of number input component, check Operator Comfirm, and select

10 s for “wait[s]”.

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Perform the offline test. Operate the number input component, and the Confirm Screen will pop up

during the confirmation operation. In this case, press “Yes” to input the data successfully, press

“Cancel” to cancel the input. If 10 seconds pass without pressing “Yes” nor “Cancel”, the

Confirmation Screen will disappear automatically.

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z Example of Notifications

Example: Set LW0 to the address of number input component. Set After Written Notice as LB10 is

ON after writing the address.

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Perform the offline test. And when no data is written into the number input component LW0, LB10 is

“Off”, as shown in the following left graphics.

When the data is written into the number input component, LB10 is “On”, as shown in the following

right graphics.

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Display Setting of Component

Display Setting for Component

Lock Position

Checking this option means the component is locked. Once the component is locked, it can’t

be moved by the mouse or the moving keys in the keyboard.

X/Y

Refers to the coordinate value of the vertex in the upper-left of the component.

Width/Height

Refers to the width and height of the component (The unit is pixel point).

Display

Checking this option means the current component is always in displayed state.

Not Display

Checking this option means the current component is always in “hide state” and the touching is

[Touching is invalid]

invalid when the component is hidden.

Conditional Display

Security Level Control: Checking this option means the current component can be displayed

only when the security level of the operator is higher than the minimum security level already

set.

User Permission Control: Checking this option means the current component can be displayed

only when the operator has the set permission.

Indirect Reference: Checking this option means the current component can be displayed only

when the state of the specified bit memory or word memory meets the set conditions.

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3 Functions of NB-Designer

z Example of Display Setting

Example: Set LW0 to the address of number input component make display setting and keep LB10 as

“On”.

3

Perform the offline test. When LB10 is Off, the number input component is hidden, as shown in the

following left graphics.

When LB10 is On, the number input component is displayed, as shown in the following right

graphics.

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3 Functions of NB-Designer

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Parts

Parts are designed to meet specific needs. Generally speaking, one component can realize one

function, but some components should be combined with the related components or PLC to realize

some specific functions, as shown below.

Components

Related Components

Descriptions

Number Input

Function Key

To create the keyboard by “Function Key”

Text Input

Function Key

To create the keyboard by “Function Key”

Indirect Screen

Screen

The created “screen”

Direct Screen

Screen

The created “screen”

Alarm Setting

Alarm, Alarm Display

To display the registered alarm information by “Alarm”

or “Alarm Display”

Alarm

Alarm Setting

To display the alarm information registered by “Alarm

Setting” component

Alarm Display

Alarm Setting

To display the alarm information registered by “Alarm

Setting” component

Event Setting

Event

To display the registered event by “Event” component

Event

Event Setting

To display the event registered by “Event Setting”

component

PLC Control

PLC

To make PLC program control the operations of the

functions

Most of the PLC part support “bit” or “word” addresses (“Double-word” operation can be performed by

some components such as Number Input and Scroll Bar etc. Due to some PLCs have “double-word”

addresses, so some PLC drivers will make conversion between “double-word” and “word”, and the user

must pay special attentions to the instructions of PLC driver.

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Bit Button

Bit Button component defines one touching area. When this area is activated, the bit

address inside the PT or in the PLC can be switched to “On” or “Off” forcefully.

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