Allen Bradley PV550

[radugs]

Trying to write a program for a PV550 (2711-T5A16L1, Ser. B, Rev. E, FRN 4.46) to test the touchscreen.
I wrote a program with 16 pages and on each page screen I have 8 rows with 16 GoTo Screen buttons (maximum allowed for the PV550) on each row.

x123456789ABCDEF
x123456789ABCDEF
x123456789ABCDEF
x123456789ABCDEF
x123456789ABCDEF
x123456789ABCDEF
x123456789ABCDEF
x123456789ABCDEF
x represents the current page/screen number, in this case screen 0, and when pressed it's mapped to GoTo Configuration Screen.
All other buttons, when pressed go to the corresponding page that is filled as above but with the x in the column for the particular page it represents.


This works but...
I would like to have 8 rows of 16 push buttons that change color/background when pressed (1) and change back to default when pressed again (0).
Nothing connected to the PV550.

 

[0949er]

When you say nothing connected to the PV550 are you saying also no PLC? I would like if you use the PLC to store some information (current screen, config, etc) then whatever combination you are trying to do of buttons and colors should not be an issue at all. Store the current selection as a tag and then do some other if/else login in the PLC and display the results in the HMI; this is how I did a lot of small PV screens for drive configurations/etc was all done on the back end in the PLC and results were displayed in the HMI

 

[RAYBRITO]

Make memory tags and reference your buttons comms to it...the in properties choose different color for background.