Hi All,

With a MonDil, I've been playing around with dynamic block icon text for the Out values Text0 and Text1. See attached.

You can add text in these locations to dynamically update a block icons text based on the out value of the MonDil. For example, you could put "OK" in Text0, and "ALARM" in Text1, and whenever the out value of the MonDil is 0, the text in Text0 will display and when the out value is 1, the text in Text1 will display. Pretty straight forward.

But I want there to be more than two possible values. So I fed an integer into Ext104 and placed the following in the MonDil's Text0, `@4W%t#MyTextLib@`. I was hoping that this pointer to the text library would lookup the needed text based on the value of the input at Ext104. I didnt figure it would work and it did not. The block icon text just filled with the pointer.

If I wanted variable message text, I could use that pointer in the block comment to make dynamic messages based on the value at Ext104, but that is not what I'm looking for.

Has anybody ever tried to do this? Is there another way? Thanks for your time : )

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I'm on 9.0 SP2

Its interesting to change the text dynamically in this way, I wonder what your use case is. 

Anyhow a couple ideas of how do it:

1. UserStatus - freely assignable byte which has OCM - set your integer value into this input then use a text list, advanced status display or other methods as part of your animation in the block icon and faceplate.  

2. Same as doing it with UserStatus, but use UserAnalog1 or 2 either the float value or the integer units variable.  This will give you a lot more states to animate with.  You'll still need to build a text list (or get really tricky with an enum which could require modifying the standard block properties).  If you use UserAnalog just also think that it will also show up on your faceplate as a value which you might not like.