Displaying Degrees °C or °F in Red Lion Crinmson3.0

gbradley

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Can I add a text suffix to a Databox?
Particularly I want to make the Data of 100 to read 100° C
I think that I might be able to use Complex code, but I don’t know the syntax.
 
gbradley said:
Can I add a text suffix to a Databox?
Particularly I want to make the Data of 100 to read 100° C
I think that I might be able to use Complex code, but I don’t know the syntax.
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In the options for your tag, go to Format, select numeric for the type, and down below will appear "Format Units"
 
To get the degree symbol to appear in a field, click the field to get your cursor focused there then hold down the ALT key and use the numeric keypad and type "0176".

Also in Crimson and some other editors, I like to put one space at the beginning of all my units. I think it makes the values more readable with a space between the value and the units.
 
OkiePC said:
To get the degree symbol to appear in a field, click the field to get your cursor focused there then hold down the ALT key and use the numeric keypad and type "0176"....
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Thanks, yea, my laptop doesn't have the Numeric Keyboard, so I just copied the ° symbol from the Character Map.
Alt 0 does something completely different on the laptop.
Thanks Epy for pointing me in the right direction.
I hadn't even thought of it until my operator asked "Is this in degrees Farenheit or Celsius?"
 
And if you tell me it's 22°C outside, I have no idea what to wear.

I like the better precision of Fahrenheit without having to use decimal places.

I like miles better than kilometers too, but it's what I was raised with.
 
Slightly OT.. Had a project once where I had to be able to toggle from Metric to Imperial values and vise versa.

I forgot that hysteresis setpoints and absolute setpoints are converted slightly different.. Man that was a ***** to find out.
 
Bumping an old thread to ask a related question:

Is there any way to programmatically change the display units for a given numeric tag? I would like the end user to be able to set up an analog IO point with whatever properties they need. But I don't see a way to use a string or complex expression in the units field.

Can I possibly write to something like variable.units in the program editor?
 

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