Grass Valley Xpanel Vertigo Suite v.4.8 - Manual (Page 17)

Xpanel User Manual 2-7
Getting started with Xpanel
Design mode interface components
Design mode is Xpanel’s authoring environment that allows you to create and edit panels.
This section provides a brief functional description of the main interface components in
Design mode.
Figure 2-1. An example of a panel open in Xpanel’s Design mode
1. Menus - These menu commands provide access to the settings and administrative
functions that are relevant to Xpanel’s Design mode. See
“A Quick reference to
Xpanel’s menus & toolbars” on page 8-1 for a description of each menu command.
2. Objects toolbar - Panels are created by adding control objects to the panel’s canvas and
setting their properties. The objects toolbar consists of six (6) thematic tabs that contain
object buttons that can be dragged onto the panel. The objects become the mechanism
by which operators control broadcast graphics. See
“Adding objects and primitives to a
panel” on page 4-6 for a description of each object.
3. Production mode button - Xpanel has two work modes: Design and Production.
Besides being a toggle button to switch from one mode to the other, the Production
mode button also identifies Xpanel’s currently mode.
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= currently in Design Mode
= currently in Production Mode