Graphical Characters

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Under the tool box, is the list of Graphical Characters that you can drag onto your screen.

If you click and drag one of these characters onto a screen, you will see the following:

After selecting a graphical character that has been dragged onto the screen,

the properties panel will display the charcter's properties:

Data

Character - The ASCII value of the character to display. 

Display Properties

Hidden - Do not actually display this box on screen

ReverseVideo - if False, display black text on white background, if True then display white text on black background

Identifiers

ID - Read only object identifier

Name - User specified name of this object

Position and Size

Location - Upper left corner position of this object

X - Left side position of this object

Y - Top side position of this object

Size - This object spans Width spaces to the right and Height spaces down on the screen

Width - This object spans Width horizontal spaces on the screen, will always be 1

Height - This object spans Height vertical spaces on the screen, will always be 1

Additional Notes:

• Graphical Characters are not resizable.
• The font on the M5900 and the font in the designer are not the same.  Only ASCII character values listed in the Graphics toolbox are intended to be used.
• Graphical Characters like Static Text and Boxes do not show up in the TreeView.

Examples:

Examples of using Graphical Characters and how these examples would appear on M5900:

Characters 176-211:

Characters 212-223:

More complex samples:

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