2. Enter Marquee Port Details

Use the Marquee Port details dialog box to set the page with and cycle time for messages. You can also select the types of messages to display.

Option

Description

Page width

Width to be used when calculating word wrapping for the devices on the port..

Cycle time

Maximum number of seconds to be spent displaying messages from the queue before the displaying of messages will re-start from the beginning of the queue

Log events

Checked

Log events to be processed.

Log alarms

Checked

Log alarms to be processed.

Config Port

Opens the Marquee Port <Port> Config dialog box, which provides options to configure the Marquee port.

Options are:

 

Baud rate

Selections are:

75

110

150

300

600

1200

2400

4800

9600

19200

 

Parity

Selections are:

none

odd

even

mark

space

 

Data

Selections are:

4 Bits

8 Bits

 

Stop bit

Selections are:

One & Half Stop Bits

One Stop Bit

Two Stop Bits

All alarm classes

Checked

Display all alarm classes.

Important: Create an alarm class for each Marquee port and use a different alarm class to filter alarm messages to each Marquee process.

Serious performance problems could result from sending all alarms to all Marquee processes if it is a normal condition for there to be a large number of outstanding alarms in your CIMPLICITY project.

 

Cleared

Display the alarms for a single alarm class.

Alarm class

Display the alarms for the selected alarm class.

 

Opens the Select an Alarm Class browser

 

Opens a Popup menu to create or select an alarm class.

More information

Marquee port configuration.