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Concepts and Base Components
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DMS 4.1 EN 03/2011 TD29 93
3.7.14 Text List
Note: This functionality is only available if supported by the currently used feature
set.
A text list is an object managed globally in the POUs window or assigned to an
application in the Devices window. It is the base of
1. multi-language support for static and dynamic texts and tooltips in visualizations
and in the alarm handling and of
2. dynamic text exchange.
Text lists can be exported and (re-) imported. Export is necessary, if a language file in
xml-format must be provided for a Target-Visualization, but also might be useful for
translation purposes (see below).
Possible formats of text lists are text and XML. Support of Unicode can be activated.
Each text list is uniquely defined by its namespace. It contains text strings which are
uniquely referenced within the list by an identifier (ID, consisting of any sequence of
characters) and a language identifier. The text list to be used is specified when
configuring the text for a visualization element.
Depending on the language which is currently set in the visualization the
corresponding text string will be displayed in online mode. The language used in a
visualization can be changed by a "Change the language" input, i.e. by an appropriately
configured mouse action on any visualization element. Each text is available in the list
at least in the "default" language (the default language depends on the currently used
»PLC Designer« configuration) and optionally in further languages. If no entry is found
which matches the language currently set, the default language entry will be used.
Each text might contain formatting definitions.
Basic structure of a text list:
Identifier (Index) Default <language 1> <language 2> .... <language n>
<unique string of
characters> <text abc in
default language> <text abc in
language 1> <text abc in
language 2>
...
<unique string of
characters> <text xyz in default
language> <text xyz in
language 1> <text xyz in
language 2>
...