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Component: Numeric Display (Indicators)

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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