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Animation of the text display

You can configure an animation of the display of text in the Font variables property. All basic elements have this property as well as tables, scroll bars, and text fields.

Procedure. Example: Animate the font size

Requirement: A project with a visualization is open.

  1. Open the visualization and add a Rectangle element.

    The Properties view shows the configuration of the element.

  2. Configure the Texts → Text property with Important.

  3. In the application, declare a type-compliant variable in the PLC_PRG POU.

    iFontHeight : INT;

  4. Configure the Font variables → Size property with PLC_PRG.iFontHeight.

  5. Implement a change in the size of the font.

    iFontHeight := iFontHeight + 1) MOD 20;

  6. Compile, download, and start the application.

    The application runs. The visualization opens. The rectangle is labeled Important. The font size increases from 1 to 20.

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