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2.3.1.3 Creating custom screens for non-touch panel display units
Using FANUC PICTURE lets you create custom screens used on
non-touch panel display units. The display units must be provided
with graphic functions.
When creating a custom screen, you specify what display unit type the
target CNC has, using the [Setting…]-[Project]- menu bar button on
FANUC PICTURE. This menu button can also be used to reform an
existing screen project for a touch panel into a non-touch panel screen
project rather than newly creating a project.
Custom screens for monochrome display units can be created using
exactly the same method as for color display units. If you want to
forecast the brightness image of screens on a personal computer,
however, create all screens by defining color palettes having four to
eight White-Gray-Black tones and specifying these monotone
“colors.”
In the same manner as for custom screens for touch panel display units,
basic editing operations for those for non-touch panel display units are
implemented by placing controls in a form and specifying properties
for them. On top of this, specifying additional properties briefly
described below completes custom screens for non-touch panel
display units. These additional properties can be also used to create
custom screens for touch panel display units without changing their
settings. If a custom screen is designed by taking the characteristics of
both types of display units into consideration, the created screen data
can be used to run the custom screen on both display unit types,
provided that the custom screen has 10+2 soft keys.
Control Name
Tab - Property
Name
Brief description
Screen Switch
Button
Framed Button
Shortcut key
A button operation set up on the Action tab can be
executed, using a specified soft key or MDI key.
Screen Set Focus rule tab
This tab is used to specify movement rules applied in
selecting (focusing) an input control on a form with the
cursor key. It is also used to specify whether to enable
the continuous input function.
Numeral Indication Control with Key Input
Numeral Indication Control for Calling a
Ten-Key Pad
PMC Area Character String Indication
Focus tab
This tab is used to set up a focusing index number for
determining the order in which the focus is to move. It
is also used optionally to specify individual focus
movement rules rather than common focus movement
rules and disable the continuous input function.
CAUTION
An MDI unit is necessary to use a non-touch panel display unit. Using the following
controls in this configuration is meaningless; their existence within a custom screen
does not do harm, however.
• MDI key control
• MDI keyboard control