6. Function blocks
6.1 Manufacturer function blocks
change the language on the device display or on other external device displays. To do
this, you will need to configure the appropriate settings under the Languages tab.
You can assign each language any name of your choice in the Language table column.
After doing so, you will need to open the text display editor and enter the text in each lan-
guage for each text element being used.
Figure 177: Text display function block, language tab
Language selection during runtime
Allows device operators to switch language at runtime.
Type and operand
User to select an operand that will be used to select the target language. You can use
analog inputs or outputs from function blocks, marker bytes, marker words, marker
double words, analog outputs, or analog inputs as an operand.
MB1 is selected in the following example. Look at the "Value" column, which is filled out
by the system. When MB1 is assigned a value of 1 in the program, the language will be
switched to English.
Language table
Column Description
Language In the language table, you can assign any name of your choice to each language
in the project.
Download Selecting <Yes> in the Download column will make the texts for the cor-
responding language be loaded onto the device. You can enter these texts for
each language in the text display editor under the tab for the selected display
and entry element.
Value If the assigned operand assumes this value at runtime, the display will switch
to the corresponding language.
Default You can select a language as the default language. Selecting <Yes> in the
Default column will make the corresponding language be selected whenever
the current value of the operand cannot be found in the Value column. In other
words, the default language will be used when a specific language is not selec-
ted.
Time and number formats The time and number formats for each language will be taken from the
formats specified in the corresponding column. Every text that is configured will
then need to be entered in each of the defined languages when defining the text
element in the text editor.
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