Us ing a Pre de fined Bitmap .....131
Graphics Li brar ies .................133
What are ‘states’? ...........134
Us ing Shape Li brar ies ........134
Us ing Bitmap Li brar ies ........142
Us ing Group Li brar ies ........147
Chap ter 7 - Cre at ing and Us ing Da ta bases and
Lan guages ............................153
Cre at ing and Us ing the Tag Li brary ....153
Im port ing and Ex port ing the Tag
Li brary ....................154
Us ing the Tag Li brary .........155
Cre at ing the La bel Li brary ...........155
Im port ing and Ex port ing the La bel
Li brary ....................158
Us ing the La bel Li brary..............158
Us ing Lan guages with the La bel
Li brary ....................160
Chap ter 8 - Rep re sent ing Data with Graphics
Ob jects...............................163
Us ing In ter nal Data Mem ory of OIT ....163
Non-vol a tile Stor age of Sys tem
Pa ram e ters ......................169
PLC Set tings................169
Gen eral Set tings ............169
Se cu rity Set tings.............170
Rep re sent ing PLC Coil Reg is ters .......170
The Bit Lamp Ob ject..........170
The Set Bit Ob ject ...........173
The Tog gle Switch Ob ject ......175
Rep re sent ing PLC Data Reg is ters ......177
The Word Lamp Ob ject .......177
The Set Word Ob ject .........179
The MultiState Switch Ob ject ...182
The Nu meric Data Ob ject......184
The Nu meric In put Ex tend Ob ject 187
The ASCII Data Ob ject ........191
The ASCII In put Ex tend Ob ject ..192
The Mov ing Shape Ob ject .....194
The An i ma tion Ob ject ........197
Chap ter 9 - Us ing and Cre at ing Keypads ....201
How to Cre ate a Key pad ............201
Dis play ing and Us ing a Key pad .......204
Us ing the Built-In Nu meric Key pad in
EasyBuilder ................207
Chap ter 10 - Bar Graphs, Me ters, and Trends . 213
Cre at ing Bar Graphs ...............213
Cre at ing Dis play Me ters .............216
Cre at ing Trend Dis plays .............218
Cre at ing XY Plots ..................220
Chap ter 11 - Cap tur ing Alarms and Events ...223
Us ing Alarms .....................223
Mon i tor ing Alarms with the Alarm Scan
Ob ject ..........................223
Dis play ing Alarms us ing the Alarm Dis play
Ob ject ..........................224
Dis play ing Alarms us ing the Alarm Bar
Ob ject ....................228
Us ing Events .....................230
Mon i tor ing Events With the Event Log
Ob ject ....................230
Dis play ing Events Us ing the Event
Dis play Ob ject ..............232
Us ing Events for an Alarm His tory .....234
Us ing the Alarm His tory .......237
Chap ter 12 - Data and Rec ipe Trans fer Ob jects239
Us ing the Data Trans fer Ob ject .......239
Us ing the Rec ipe Trans fer Ob ject ......240
Cre at ing a Rec ipe............243
Chap ter 13 - Mac ros ....................245
Us ing Mac ros ....................245
Macro Sam ple and
Im ple men ta tion ............245
Vari ables, Dec la ra tions and Mem ory
Us age ..........................248
Mem ory Us age: ............248
Vari able Dec la ra tions.........248
Vari able Ini tial iza tion .........249
Ar ray Ini tial iza tion ...........249
Re served Words .............249
Op er a tor ..................250
Or der of Pre ce dence .........250
Main Func tions and
Sub-func tions...............250
Lo cal and Global Vari ables ....251
Cre at ing Vari able Ar rays ......251
Us ing Mac ros Within Rec i pes ...251
Us ing 32-bit Reg is ters Within
Mac ros....................252
Us ing Float ing Point Reg is ters Within
Mac ros....................253
State ments, Con di tions &
Ex pres sions ................253
Func tion calls and pass ing pa ram e ters
.........................255
Read ing & Writ ing Ex ter nal Reg is ters
in a Macro .................256
Pre cau tions, tips & tricks when us ing
Mac ros ...................257
Com piler Er rors & Er ror Codes ........257
Chap ter 14 - Us ing a Printer With the
HMI530T/550T.........................261
Con fig ur ing the HMI530T/550T for a
Printer ....................261
Print ing a Win dow .................262
Us ing a Func tion Key .........262
Us ing PLC Con trol Ob ject......262
Us ing Sim u la tion Mode .......263
Print ing a Re port ............263
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