Draw a Custom Meter.

Before Starting:  This example assumes that you have a custom meter, such as the one created in the first example of this series, and that you have a new analog input tag whose value you want to display using that meter.

 

1.   Click on the Configure button to open the configuration toolbox.

2.   Click on the Libraries button in the toolbox to open the Libraries dialog.

3.   Click on the plus sign beside Drawing Tools to open the list of tools.

4.   Click on the plus sign beside User Draw Methods to open the list of DMs.

5.   Right-click on the custom meter DM to open the context menu.

6.   Click on Draw

7.   Click on the page to drop the new custom meter into place.

The VTS Graphic Editor will open.  Note that there is one parameter for every tag used in the original meter (in this example, that's only Parm0).  The name of the tag used when the DM was originally created is displayed to provide a hint for what kind of tag should be used for this parameter.

 

1.   Select the new Analog Input tag whose value you want to display using this meter.

 

2.   Click on OK to close the graphic editor.

The new meter is now part of the page, displaying the value of the selected analog input tag.