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Nematron Pointe Controller User Manual

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Appendix A: OptiLogic Technical Specifications

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NOTE: You can leave any or all Buttons unconfigured, but if you do, those I/O
points will not be available to your project.

Messages tab

This tab controls to two lines of the LCD on the OL3420 panel. The lines on the
panel are numbered 1 and 2, from top to bottom. Each line is mapped to a
separate 20-character String variable.

To configure a Line, click the

to the right and select a String variable from the

pop-up menu. Each variable can be used only once.

Lines can be set and changed independently of each other; text does not wrap
from one line to the next. To display text on the panel, use String commands
(

Flow Chart

or

Ladder Block

) to write the desired text to the associated String

variables.

NOTE: You can leave any or all Lines unconfigured, but if you do, those I/O points
will not be available to your project.

When you have finished configuring the panel, click OK to save your changes and
close the window.