Siemens SINUMERIK 808D ADVANCED Series

Commissioning Manual
6FC5397-4EP10-0BA8, 07/2018
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Tag identifier
Meaning
FORM
The tag contains the description of a user dialog. The relevant tags are described in the
section on generating menus and dialog forms.
Syntax:
<FORM name="<dialog name>" color="#ff0000">
Attributes:
•
color
Background color of the dialog form (color coding, see Section "Color coding
(Page 309)")
– Default white
•
name
Identifier of the form
•
type
Permissible value is
cycle , which identifies a user cycle screen form
•
xpos
X-position of the top left corner of the dialog box (optional)
•
ypos
Y position of the top left corner (optional)
•
width
Extension in the X direction (in pixels) (optional)
•
height
Extension in the Y direction (in pixels) (optional)
FORM
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Attributes:
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truetypefont
Whether the font of the dialog form is of the true type (optional)
Values:
•
true
The font of the dialog form is of the true type regardless of the value of machine data
MD1113
•
false
The font of the dialog form is set via bit 0 of MD1113 (default)
– Bit 0 = 0: the fixed type font is used for text display (default)
– Bit 0 = 1: the true type font is used for text display
Example:
<FORM name="dialog name" truetypefont="true">
…
…
…
</form>