Creating and Editing Screens

Screens are used to define what will be displayed on the M5900 and how as the user enters data.

Rename your new screen

Your Screen editing Tools:

The basic tools you can use to draw your screen:

Static Text - Never changing text that is simply drawn on the screen

Box - A box is already drawn for you with graphic characters

Field - An area of the screen reserved for display only or user entry fields. These are where the user can edit or enter data.

Graphics - One static character that can be placed on the screen as part of line graphics.

To add these Tools to a screen the are dragged onto the Screen Grid using the mouse.

With the exception of graphical characters, you can click and drag on the edge of any Tool that you placed on the screen to resize it.

Once an Item has been dragged onto the screen, or if you click on an item on the screen,

its properties will display in the properties window.

The properties window is split into 2 sections.

1. The white backed settings editor

2. The grey backed context explanation.

Clicking on a setting in the settings editor will cause the context explanation to display help about that setting.

Custom actions can be scripted when screens are displayed or hidden. For more information see Screen Events.

Note: If you do not like the position the Screen has in the TreeView, you can drag and drop the Screen to the position that you want.