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Tab: Dialog Settings

Symbol: _visu_icon.png

The tab manages the settings for standard dialogs which open when virtual user input is desired, for example, because no external keyboard or mouse is available.

Important

The global settings in the Visualization Manager are effective for use in a TargetVisu or WebVisu only.

If a corresponding setting is also available in the input configuration of the respective visualization element, then it is used.

Tip

In the input configuration of an element, you define which action is opened by the standard dialog defined here.

Note

0_Sample_Project Sample project for visualizing dialogs in Structured Text (ST)

0_Sample_Project Source library with dialogs available in visualization

Table 25. Settings for Default Text Input

Numpad

Dialog representing a virtual numeric keypad

Setting: VisuDialogs.Numpad2

Opens when the visualization user clicks in an input field for a number

Keypad

Dialog representing a virtual keyboard

Setting: VisuDialogs.Keypad2

Opens when the visualization user clicks in an input field for a text

Use text input with limitation

Dialog which also displays and controls the value range limiting the input

Default: VisuDialogs.TextinputWithLimits

standard icon: Enables a special dialog for the input restricted to a range of values. This dialog shows the value range accepts values only within the given range.

Requirement:

  • The visualization must be executed as a TargetVisu or a WebVisu.

  • Moreover, in the object of the variant (below the Visualization Manager), the Default text input option has to be configured as Keyboard in the Input Handling Options group.



Table 26. Global position settings for numpad / keypad

Note: The origin of the coordinate system of the visualization window is located in the upper left corner. The positive horizontal X-axis runs to the right. The positive vertical Y-axis runs downwards.

Centered

The dialog opens in the middle of the screen.

Open centered on the element

The dialog opens in the middle above the element and hides it.

Open next to the element

The dialog is placed next to the element dynamically and optimized.

Open at defined position

The dialog opens at the position set with X and Y.



Table 27. Settings for User Management Dialogs

You can configure your visualization with a user management. To do this, configure an element input for opening a user management.

The VisuUserManagement library provides ready-made dialog visualizations for this purpose. The library is located in the installation directory (example: C:\Program Files (x86)\CODESYS\4.1.0.0 \Projects\Visu\Dialogs\VisuUserMgmtDialogs.library).

Tip

You can also use other visualizations as user management dialogs. The presets must be changed here in order to do this.

Login dialog

User management dialog for login, prompting the user for a user name and password.

The dialog appears in the input event for an element that executes the follow-up action User Management, Login.

Preset: VisuUserManagement.VUM_Login

Change password dialog

User management dialog for changing the password, prompting the user for the current and new passwords.

The dialog appears in the input event for an element that executes the follow-up action User Management, Change User Password.

Preset: VisuUserManagement.ChangePassword

Change configuration dialog

User management dialog for changing the configuration, displaying the current user configuration and the option to change it.

The dialog appears in the input event that executes the follow-up action User Management, Open User Configuration.

Preset: VisuUserManagement.VUM_UserManagement



Table 28. Settings for modal dialogs

Use background color

Enables the background color



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