ABB AC 800M

Window Appearance Section 4 Engineering Interface
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Typically, Control Module types are more complex than Function Block Types.
Therefore, interaction windows are more often necessary for Control Module types
(normally to facilitate configuring). Otherwise, the same rules as for function blocks
apply.
Window Appearance
General Properties for interaction windows:
• Occupy a minimum of screen space
• If possible, group the window contents
The window width shall be a 0.192, 0.30, 0.35, 0.50 or 1.00 of the screen. The
height of the window shall be set to 0. This means that the height is determined by
the width and the shape of the control module.
The size of the window shall further be multiplied with the project constant
cWindowSizeFactor. The cWindowSizeFactor is defined in a way that a window,
showing a control module with width 4.0, has the same width as the screen if
cWindowSizeFactor is 1.0. The project constant cWindowSizeFactor in BasicLib has
a default value of 0.6.
The property Owner of interaction windows should normally not be used. The
property should only be set if the operator window is a full size window (XSize =
1.00) that contains smaller windows. The attribute RelativePos is normally used if
an interaction window is popped up from another window. The second window
should be positioned relative to the first window using the attributes xPos and yPos,
so that no part of the first window is covered by the second window. For full size
windows the attribute RelativePos should be false.
An interaction window (popped-up from the control module instance in the control
module editor) should appear with its lower left corner in the middle of the control
module icon (achieved by setting relative position x = 0, y = 0). If it is possible to
pop-up more windows from the interaction window, there top should be aligned
with the interaction window top. They should also appear edge to edge with the
interaction window. When window placement is made by adjusting relative x- and
y-positions, the relative positions must be multiplied with cWindowSizeFactor to
keep the alignment for different cWindowSizeFactor.