Grass Valley Xpanel Vertigo Suite v.4.8 - Manual (Page 18)

2-8 Xpanel User Manual
Getting started with Xpanel
4. Panel Canvas toolbar - When creating or editing a panel, the buttons in this toolbar
provide quick access to many of the administrative, editing and formatting functions
that are applied to the panel and its objects. See
page 8-1 for a functional description
of each button in the toolbar.
5. Panel tabs and canvas - Each panel is created upon a canvas (workspace) where
objects are added and formatted into a functional control panel. Multiple panels can be
opened simultaneously, in which case a tab for each panel appears on top of the
canvas area. These panels can be stacked (default) or docked to the outer sides (side-
by-side or up-down) by holding down the left-mouse button on a panel’s tab and using
the docking options. The panel’s canvas also has properties that determine its
appearance and behavior. The following sections provide information and instructions
on using the panel’s canvas:
•
“Opening panels or projects” on page 4-2
• “Configuring the panel’s properties” on page 4-4
• “Zooming in/out of the canvas” on page 2-13
• “Panning across the canvas” on page 2-13
6. Views - Xpanel provides several different views, which are mainly software tools used
in the creation and support of panels. As described on
page 2-11 , the views can be
docked panels or floating windows, which can be displayed or hidden.
The following views are available in Xpanel:
• Properties: Panels are created by adding objects to the panel’s canvas and setting
their properties. When an object, or the canvas itself, is selected, its current
properties settings are displayed in the Properties view. See
page 4-4 and page 4-7
for more information.
• Object List: A list of the objects that are currently on the panel. Right-clicking the
object allows you to select the Set as a drag & drop default and Reset the drag
& drop default commands.
• Asset Browser: The Asset Browser allows you to browse and preview the Panels,
Images, Data schemas that are stored on the Xmedia Server. Panels can be
opened directly from the Asset Browser, images can be dragged onto the canvas
and new data schemas can be created and linked to objects.
• Action Editor: All of the objects in Xpanel, except for primitives, are defined with a
specific purpose or function. For example, the DSK object is a toggle button for keying
up or down a graphic. The Action Editor allows you to add to the functionality of
standard Xpanel objects or define the functionality of primitive objects by configuring
and associating the objects with a set of actions to occur on an event. See
“Adding
events and actions to primitives and objects” on page 5-1 for more information.
• Script Editor: The Script Editor allows you to create or edit custom VB scripts to
provide more complex functionality to actions associated with Xpanel objects.
• Station Manager - Xpanel’s Station Manager allows you to define the devices on the
network and then create a station configuration, which groups the devices into channels.
See
“Creating and loading a station configuration” on page 3-1 for more information.
• RCP List - The RCP List allows you to configure the RCP-BR devices on your network.