Chapter 4
Human Machine Interface
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7.
Click on the pair of tweezers to return to Edit mode. You can finish
editing the control in Edit mode.
8.
Pop up on the housing of the slide and select Scale»Style»None. The
scale for the slide disappears.
9.
Change tools to the Color tool. To do this, you either can select the tool
from the palette, if visible, or you can use the <Tab> key to rotate
through the tools until the Color tool is selected. Pop up on the housing
for the slide with the Color tool, and select the transparent color. The
housing disappears, as shown in the following illustration.
With the Operator tool, you can operate the “slide.” Notice that the
digital display continues to update as you move the boat on the screen.
If you want to hide the digital display, pop up on the boat and deselect
Show»Digital Display.
10. Save this control as
Boat1.ctl
in the
BridgeVIEW\Activity
directory.
End of Activity 4-2.
How Do You Configure Front Panel Objects
Programmatically?
BridgeVIEW has objects called attribute nodes which are special block
diagram nodes you can use to control the appearance and functional
characteristics of controls and indicators from your diagram. You can set
attributes such as display colors, visibility, position, blinking, trend scales,
and many more. See Chapter 13,
, or
, for more information.
