Options in the Fill tab

Specify a tag name or an expression that will evaluate to numeric values at runtime. An expression is a mathematical or logical equation that returns a value. It can contain tag names; constants; mathematical, relational, logical and bitwise operators; and built-in alarms and events functions. A tag name can be used as an expression.

Select Left, Right, Up or Down for the fill direction. For example, if you choose Left, the object will fill from the right to the left side.

When you check this box the outline of the object remains constant while the inside fill varies.

If you have specified a tag in the Expression box, click this button to use the tag's minimum and maximum values to define the range of values for the expression. This option only applies to tags for which minimum and maximum can be defined, such as HMI tags.

To use constant numeric values to define a range of values, click this button, and specify values for minimum and maximum.

To define the range of values using one tag's value for the minimum and another tag's value for the maximum, click this button and then specify a tag for minimum and another for maximum. Using this option, when the animation for an object is started, the tags' values are read once to set the minimum and maximum values. The tags are not read again after, and the minimum and maximum values are not changed.

The default values for this are 0 and 100, which means that when the expression returns the minimum value, the object will be empty and when it returns its maximum, the object will be completely full.

Type the percent the object is to be filled when the expression evaluates to its minimum value. The default is 0.

Type the percent the object is to be filled when the expression evaluates to its maximum value. The default is 100.