Infinity Icon showing in place of very large number

Ignition
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I have noticed that sometimes a very large number is displayed as an Infinity logo.
Haven’t quite figured out when this does and doesn’t happen. I didn’t think it was in a specific version of ignition, but my 2 examples are from difference versions.

Anyone that has worked with AB’s PlantPAX AOI’s knows that the default value for an alarm limit is +/- 1.5e+038 which in turn basically just means it hasn’t been set, or it’s not used.

Here are 2 faceplates (all the same code behind them.)

The first is from 7.9.13 and it shows an Infinity Icon on the 2 large numbers. I really like this, as it better portrays that these are not being used.
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The second is is from 8.1.4 (It was originally just imported from a 7.9.13 backup with minor changes.)
No more infinity icon, now it just shows the large number, but cut off.
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Any thoughts on how I can get the infinity icon to automatically populate again?

In all reality, this doesn’t affect anything, just a nice to have… :slight_smile:

Thanks

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I’m surprised PlantPAX doesn’t have bools turn turn each of the alarms off to be honest, seems like a good thing to have :thinking:
As for your question, :man_shrugging:

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@nminchin Don't go asking AB programmers to use logic Nick.

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They do have bools to turn each alarm off and on, But that doesn’t have anything to do with the question I’ve asked. :slight_smile: The setpoint as always there regardless of the alarm being on or not.

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I thought so! I haven’t used PlantPAX before, but know there are like 500+ tags for a single analogue input instrument, so some of those must be alarm enables :grin: