Table of Content
Advanced
The Advance toolset contains additional design tools. This toolset includes the following tools.
A panel is a box that allows you to manage the look of your Custom Panel.
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Control Info: Shows control type.
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A tab panel is a box with selectable tabs that allows you to manage the look of your Custom Panel as well as group controls together in a functional, attractive manner. Tab panels can be managed in the Custom Panel designers and, once the Custom Panel is activated, viewed by the end user. They can also select the desired tab.
Add a Tab Panel by dragging and dropping the Tab Panel icon, then add controls to the panel the same way you would a Custom Panel. After the tab panel has been added, add controls to the tab panel the same way you would a Custom Panel.
If the controls are not on the tab panel, select them and drag them over to the panel.
There are two levels to the panel – the entire panel and the tab portion of the panel.
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The Device Frame looks and behaves similar to a standard Panel. Like a standard Panel, Parameter controls are added into it. Unlike a standard Panel, it has the power to change which Parameters its controls are attached to at run time (as opposed to design time).
At the top of the Design Frame is a combo box which lists devices of the same type. When the Device Frame is running, you can change which device is currently selected. All the controls in the Device Frame should then switch Parameters moving to corresponding State Variables on the newly selected device. In this way, you can create one small control panel which potentially controls or monitors any number of devices.
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Control Info: Shows control type.
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Horizontal Alignment: The alignment of the Combo Box within the Device Frame. Left, Center or Right
Devices: Brings up a Devices select window where you will select the available devices to assign to the Device Frame. |
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| Parameters
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| Graph
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Channel Visibility: How many channels should be visible. Single Visible or All Visible |
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A selector panel is a control that can link to a graph. It has buttons that allow the control panel user to select channels or bands on the graph.
Once the Selector Panel is tied to a graph, you can change its properties, including whether it will select bands or channels on the graph. To select the panel for editing, click anywhere between its borders and the buttons on the panel:
Individual selector buttons may be edited as well.
Overlapping controls, especially graph controls, can result in unexpected behavior and/or the appearance of controls. Use caution if you choose to overlap controls.
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Panel Name: Enter the name of the panel. Default text is “Panel 1”. |
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A widget panel is a control on a Custom Panel that links all controls inside its borders to one or more curves of a graph. The entire widget panel is linked to the graph, so individual controls do not (and cannot) link to individual parameters; individual control assignments are made in the “assignments” property of the widget panel.
Controls on a widget panel are similar to other Custom Panel controls except that they are tied to elements of a graph. The widget panel controls the band or channel that is specified on the selector panel of an activated panel.
The entire widget panel is linked to the graph, so individual controls do not (and cannot) link to individual parameters; individual control assignments are made in the “Assignments” property of the widget panel.
For example, a fader can control one parameter of one band on one channel.
Even if multiple parameters are added to the fader, all of the parameters change to the same value. However, a fader is added to a widget panel that is linked to a graph (and a selector panel), the fader can control ALL bands individually with one control of the graph.
Once a new band is selected on the selector panel, the fader controls the same parameter on that band as well.
To set up a widget panel
- Add a widget panel to the Custom Panel.
- Link the widget panel to the desired graph using graph collaboration.
- Add controls to the widget panel.
- Assign those graph parameters to the controls.
Graphs can be managed in the Custom Panel designer and, once the Custom Panel is activated, utilized by the end user.
Overlapping controls, especially graphs, can result in unexpected behavior and/or appearance of controls. Use caution if you choose to overlap controls.
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