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1.    Introduction

2.    Display Panels, Display Elements

3.    Monitor Mode vs. Design Studio

a.     Monitor Mode – Display panels used to monitor and / or control various components of your system

b.     Design Studio – Used to create contents of display panels. One works with:

                                                             i.      A panel in design mode

                                                          ii.      Display element library

4.    New interface. For simplicity, consistency, and to save screen real estate, context menus are used exclusively.

a.     Click on the object of interest with the right mouse button, and you get the menu of options available for that object, at that time.

b.     Click on the object with the left mouse button to select the object or action upon that object.

5.    Display Panels

a.     Create a new display panel

b.     Display the panel in design mode

c.     Switch between design and monitor modes

d.     Configure display panel

                                                             i.      Panel Id

                                                          ii.      Manager Status

                                                       iii.      Panel Color Parameters

                                                        iv.      Display Element Color Parameters – defaults provided for display elements allowing owner panel to manage their colors

6.    Display element library

a.     Open library window

b.     Three main groups of display elements:

                                                             i.      Simple (1-D) elements

                                                          ii.      More complex, configurable (2-D) elements

                                                       iii.      Descriptors

7.    Display Elements (DEs)

a.     Create a new DE – drag it from display element library into panel window

b.     Size the DE – drag the edges

c.     Position the DE

                                                             i.      Drag the DE

                                                          ii.      Keyboard arrow keys work while left mouse button is down

d.     Configure the DE – parameters vary on DE type

e.     Terminology

f.      Parameters common to all DEs

                                                             i.      Id

                                                          ii.      Type

                                                       iii.      Manager Status

                                                             iv.      Object Rotation

                                                          v.      Color Management Authority

                                                       vi.      DE color parameters

g.     Additional parameters for DEs which can be mapped onto other objects

                                                             i.      Mapping Mode

                                                          ii.      Child Panel Id

                                                       iii.      Domain Id

                                                        iv.      Remote Unit Id

                                                           v.      I/O Point Id

                                                        vi.      Descriptor Id

                                                     vii.      Additional DE color parameters

                                                  viii.      Connector management parameters

h.     Descriptors – used to label other DEs

                                                             i.      DE must specify descriptor

                                                          ii.      Descriptor is configured to display desired information about DE

i.     Descriptor Parameters

                                                             i.      Frame Type

                                                          ii.      Labels to display

                                                       iii.      Identifier label source

                                                        iv.      Value label 1 source

                                                           v.      Value label 1

                                                        vi.      Value label 2 source

                                                     vii.      Value label 2

                                                  viii.      Text justification

j.     ‘Circle’ type DE – can specify radius

k.      Several ‘Relay’ type DEs – can specify unmapped state