Grass Valley Xpanel Vertigo Suite v.4.8 - Manual (Page 42)

4-8 Xpanel User Manual
Building and editing panels
Primitive objects and their properties
Unlike other objects, primitives are raw graphical controls or displays that have limited or no
logic associated to them. As such, you must set the primitive’s properties and/or program
its logic by associating specific actions and tallies to events using the Action Editor (see
“Adding events and actions to primitives and objects” on page 5-1 ).
Figure 4-2. Xpanel’s Primitive objects
The following table provides functional descriptions of each primitive object:
Primitive objects Description
Text Box Adding a Text Box primitive allows you to type and display text inside a
recessed box. Information can be entered manually or fed in from a data
source (see
“Adding a data source to an object” on page 6-1 ).
When associated with the O N U PDATE event, a change to the text box’s
content can trigger actions that affect the playout’s content and/or
behavior (see
page 5-2 ).
The text box object’s properties can be edited to modify its appearance
and behavior. For example, the following properties can be used to limit
and/or determine the text’s format:
•
W ORD W RAP : When set to F ALSE (default), the text is displayed on
one line until the end of the bounding box and the surplus is cut off.
Setting this property to T
RUE allows text to wrap to the next line once
it reaches the end of the bounding box.
• L IMIT W IDTH : When set to F ALSE (default), unlimited amount of text
can be entered in the text box. Setting this property to T RUE , limits the
amount of text entered to the width of the text box.
• M AX L ENGTH : This property’s value specifies the maximum number of
of characters that can be entered in the text box in Production mode.
(Default = 256)
• F ORMAT : This property modifies the text displayed in the object to a
specific format, which creates uniformity. Some of the available
formats are: Upper case, lower case, long date, and time AM/PM.
Text Box
Button
Radio
Check
Button
Box
Drop-down
Slider
LED
Timer
List
ActiveX
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