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Graphics


Graphics can be used to enhance the appearance of your Panelview screens. Standard Panelview terminals have some limited graphic support. Let's take a look at a few of the features you will be able to utilize in your projects:


Simple Graphics


  1. Click Objects | Graphics | Line. Draw a Line under the Title of each page. This is probably the simplest graphic object.




  1. You will also notice that you can draw connected lines, rectangles, ellipses, circles, and freehand lines.





  1. The object we'll spend a little more time with for this exercise will be the graphic image object. Some graphics images are already defined in Panelbuilder32 software, while others that we use in the project can be imported from an external source.


ISA Images




  1. Click Objects | Graphics | Graphic Image.





  1. Now that we have the Graphic Image object, Let's draw the object onto our Motor Control screen .





  1. Select the pull down tab in the graphics tool bar, and select the ISA Image of a motor.




  1. You can use the handles on the image to size the image according to your application.




Imported Images


  1. In this example, we have a picture of a motor in Microsoft Paint that we are going to import onto the Motor Control Screen.





  1. First, in paint, we are going to save this as a 16 color bitmap. Click File | Save As, we we will put this file called motor.bmp onto the desktop.





  1. Next, click Objects | Graphics | Graphic Image, and draw the object onto your motor control screen.






  1. Click the Import | Export Graphics Tool in the Graphics tool bar.





  1. Click the “Import” button within the utility.





  1. Next, Browse for the file on your desktop.






  1. Click OK, then you will be asked to confirm the graphic image, then press OK again.






  1. Next click DONE. Your graphic image will now be imported, but we aren't finished yet.





  1. Next select motors.bmp from the list of available graphics in the graphic tool bar.





  1. Verify the graphic size, then press OK.





  1. Your graphic should now be on the screen.