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PLC and HMI Development with Siemens TIA Portal

You're reading from   PLC and HMI Development with Siemens TIA Portal Develop PLC and HMI programs using standard methods and structured approaches with TIA Portal V17

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801817226
Length 436 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – The TIA Portal – Project Environment
2. Chapter 1: Starting a New Project with TIA Portal FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating Objects and How They Fit Together 4. Chapter 3: Structures and User-Defined Types 5. Section 2 – TIA Portal – Languages, Structures, and Configurations
6. Chapter 4: PLC Programming and Languages 7. Chapter 5: Working with Languages in TIA Portal 8. Chapter 6: Creating Standard Control Objects 9. Chapter 7: Simulating Signals in the PLC 10. Chapter 8: Options to Consider When Creating PLC Blocks 11. Section 3 – TIA Portal – HMI Development
12. Chapter 9: TIA Portal HMI Development Environment 13. Chapter 10: Placing Objects, Settings Properties, and Events 14. Chapter 11: Structures and HMI Faceplates 15. Chapter 12: Managing Navigation and Alarms 16. Section 4 – TIA Portal – Deployment and Best Practices
17. Chapter 13: Downloading to the PLC 18. Chapter 14: Downloading to the HMI 19. Chapter 15: Programming Tips and Additional Support 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting static properties

Nearly all properties of a screen object have the ability to define a static value. This static value can be considered a hardcoded value or a constant. This means that it does not change during the execution of the HMI runtime.

Every screen object that can be placed from the Toolbox section has its own list of properties that affect the look and feel of the object. Most screen objects contain similar properties, such as visibility, authorization level, size, and position. You can see an overview of this in the following screenshot:

Figure 10.1 – Properties when screen object selected

The Properties list contains everything available to be changed for the selected screen object.

The General section of the Properties list contains properties that relate to the selected object only. This means that other screen objects may not have these properties—for example, a Text box object has the Text property, but a Line object...

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