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About Alarms
Display Creator User Manual – MoTeC Ⓒ 2014 Published 1 July 2014
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About Origin Points
This topic applies to alignment of elements on a page. As Display Creator does this in a unique way, it is
provided here as a preamble. See
for more information.
Element Origin Points
All elements that can be included in a display have an origin point, this point is used for the alignment of
elements. By default, text based elements have an origin point at the top left corner of the element (this can be
changed via the element's properties, as an example, see
). All other elements have an origin point in
the centre of the element, this cannot be changed, however, the alignment of these elements is internally
calculated so that alignment is based on the element's border.
The distinction is that text elements will align using the location of the origin point.
For example:
Take these two selected elements
, the origin point for the Text element is at the bottom left.
Aligning the elements to top has the following effect
, the top of the rectangle is aligned with
the origin point of the Text element.
About Alarms
Managing alarms in Display Creator can be summarised as follows:
• Required alarms, and the conditions which make them active, are defined on the Alarms tab. See
.
• Any number of alarms are then assigned to any number of Alarm Display elements, see
.
• An Alarm Display element is a parent element that can contain Alarm Icon, Alarm Message and/or Alarm
Channel Value elements. See
When an alarm becomes active, the appropriate Alarm Display and its child elements display the alarm
information.
• Multiple Alarm Displays can be placed on the Overlay Page and on any other page(s). See
and