Patent ID: 7602407

Claim:
A method for automatically generating graphically displayed indicating instruments for measured values, regulation values and/or control values, characterized by a) selecting a type of indicating instrument; b) dynamically calculating display positions for reading-aid information as a function of the type of selected indicating instrument and of defined parameters, characterized by dynamically establishing the display positions of scales, animated in rotary and/or translational fashion, as a function of the angle of rotation of the scale, and of the displacement of the scale from a centered arrangement into a first orientation, a check being made, at least for the first and last scale mark, as to whether scale marks and/or assigned scale inscriptions lie in a defined display area, and a scale inscription being displayed only when the assigned scale mark lies completely in the defined display area, and a scale mark being displayed only up to the point of intersection with the edge of the defined display area; c) generating the selected indicating instrument with the reading-aid positions at the calculated display positions by means of respectively classified generation objects; and d) indicating the measured values, regulation values and/or control values in conjunction with the generated indicating instrument on a display.