Tutorial: Building a Simple Project 7. Move the Text object to the top left corner of the screen. 8. Click the Application button at the top-left of the development environment, and then click Save on the Application menu. This figure shows how your screen should look after you have drawn the screen title. Finished screen title Drawing "Date" and "Time" displays This part of the tutorial shows how to draw "Date" and "Time" displays by linking Text objects to system tags. Date and Time are system tags that hold the current date and time of the local station. These tags are available to any project. 1. On the Graphics tab of the ribbon, in the Active Objects group, click Text . 2.
Click on the screen, type Date: ########## , and then press Return. 3. Double-click the object to open its Object Properties dialog. 4. Click Text Data Link . The Object Properties dialog changes to show the properties for the Text Data Link animation. 5. In the Tag/Expression box, type Date . Specifying the Date system tag During runtime, the project replaces the ########## characters of the Text object with the value of the system tag Date . 6. Close the Object Properties dialog. Page 72