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Dialog: Options: Ladder editor

Symbol: ld_icon_ladder.png

Function: Display options for the Ladder editor

Call: Tools menu, Options command, Ladder editor category, General tab

Table 1. View

Show network title

The network title is displayed in the upper left corner of the network.

Show network comment

The network comment is displayed in the upper left corner of the network. When the network title is also displayed in CODESYS, the comment is displayed in the line below.

Show block icon

The box symbol is displayed in the block element in the Ladder editor. The standard operators also have symbols.

Show operand comment

CODESYS displays the comment which you indicated for a variable in the implementation part. In contrast to the "symbol comment", the operand comment refers only to the local occurrence of the variable.

The comment is automatically truncated, depending on available space.

Show symbol comment

The comment which you indicated for a variable or symbol in the declaration is displayed in CODESYS above the variable name. You can also assign a local "operand comment" in addition to or instead of the symbol comment.

Show symbol address

If an address is assigned to a symbol (variable), then this address is displayed above the variable name.



Table 2. Operand size

Maximum number of lines shown

Maximum number of lines of the operand name which are displayed

Maximum average characters per line

Maximum number of characters per line for displaying the operand name



Tab: Monitoring

Displayed digits for floating point numbers

List box for the number of digits.

Example: The value 750.15 for 5 set digits becomes 7.5e+02 for 2 set digits.

Displayed string length

List box for the number of characters