Component: Numeric Display (Indicators)

Author	Matrix TSL
Version	1.0
Category	Indicators

Numeric Display component

Allows a numeric value to be displayed on the user panel using virtual 7 seg displays. Used for displaying the value of a variable during simulation runtime. Provides up to 5 customisable ranges to automatically alter the colour of the label based on the value.

Component Source Code

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Detailed description

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Examples

An example of a numeric display changing colour set out within the display properties

Basic Numeric Display Example

Macro reference

DisplayAsInt

	DisplayAsInt
Displays an integer value on the label. Capable of displaying positive and negative values.
- LONG	Value
Integer value to display
- VOID	Return

DisplayAsReal

	DisplayAsReal
Displays a floating point value on the label with a confiiguarable number of decimal points
- FLOAT	Value
Real floating point value to display
- BYTE	Precision
Number of decimal point values to show e.g. 2 = 0.00
- VOID	Return

SetBackgroundColour

	SetBackgroundColour
Allows the user to manually specify the default colour of the background.
- LONG	Colour
RGB colour in the hexadecimal form 0xBBGGRR
- VOID	Return

SetForegroundColour

	SetForegroundColour
Allows the user to manually specify the default colour of the foreground text.
- LONG	Colour
RGB colour in the hexadecimal form 0xBBGGRR
- VOID	Return

Property reference

	Properties
	Title
	Show Title
Decides if the title is shown on the panel.
	Title Text
Specifies the title displayed on the panel.
	Title Scale
Specifies the size of the title on the panel, default 1.2
	Title Colour
Specifies the colour of the title text
	Title Offset
Distance above component center to draw the title
	Display Properties
	Number of Digits
Number of digits in the indicator. The number of digits sets the range available For example 4 Digits can display 0000 to 9999, out of range items will be shown as - - - -
	Colour Ranges
Allows ranges to be specified to automatically format the foreground and background colours based on the numeric value
	Defaults
	Foreground Colour
The label foreground Text colour
	Background Colour
The label background Surrounding colour