Set advanced formatting properties

You can configure the number of decimal places to be shown at run time in WindowViewer, based on the size of the value. This feature is available only if you select Real in Value Display or User Input animation.

You can specify the special characters to be shown at run time if the data collected from the field devices is of bad quality or too large to be shown.

Numbers that appear in Industrial Graphics can be shown in the format of the country set as the home location with the Windows Control Panel’s Region setting. During run time, Industrial Graphic numeric values can be displayed with thousands and decimal separators that match the numeric format of the country specified in the OS Regional Settings.

Set the advanced formatting properties

1. Open WindowMaker.

2. On the File menu, select Configure, and then select WindowViewer.

   The WindowViewer configuration screen appears.

3. Select the Advanced Format tab.

   

4. In the Real Formatting Decimal Precision section, enter the number of decimal places that you want to be shown at run time for each real type number range.

5. In the Special Characters to Show at Runtime section, do the following:

   • In the Bad Quality with No Value box, enter the character you want to be shown at run time when the quality of the data point is bad and there is no last known good value. The default character is !. You can enter any ASCII character, except a space.

   • In the Value Too Large for Fixed Width box, enter the character you want to be displayed at run time when the value is too large to be displayed. The default character is *. You can enter any ASCII character, except space.

6. To show numbers within Industrial Graphics in the format of the country specified by computer’s Region setting, select the checkbox for Follow regional settings for Industrial Graphics.

   By default, the Regional Settings option is disabled.

   Note: WindowViewer checks the OS Regional Settings only on startup. This means that you may need to restart WindowViewer if you do either of the following:
   1) Select the Regional Settings option while WindowViewer is running.
   2) Change the OS Regional Settings while WindowViewer is running with the Regional Settings option selected.

7. To restore the default values, select Restore Default