The Value Editor

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The Value Editor

The Value Editor

An editor appearance depends on a tag data type in the server:

mbul   BOOL:

modbus_img147

mbul   FLOAT:

modbus_img148

mbul   Integer (only a decimal dot is unavailable with respect to the editor of FLOAT):

modbus_img149

mbul   STRING:

modbus_img150

The editor tools:

mbul   The value textbox modbus_img151 is a text editor. To edit a value, the editor buttons or the respective keyboard keys are used. For numerical tags, an inputted string presentation of a number is converted then into the respective numerical format. When opening the editor, this textbox displays the current tag value.

mbul   modbus_img152 and modbus_img153 – respectively the values TRUE and FALSE for Boolean tags

mbul   modbus_img154 modbus_img155 – the digits 0…9

mbul   modbus_img156 – the minus sign

mbul   modbus_img157 – the decimal dot

mbul   modbus_img158 – deletion of one character on the left of the cursor

mbul   modbus_img159 – deletion of the selected sub-string

mbul   modbus_img160 – the command to write a value to the tag and exit the editor

mbul   modbus_img161 – the command to exit the editor without writing a value to the tag