Grass Valley Xstudio Vertigo Suite v.4.10 - Manual (Page 212)

Xstudio User Manual 8-7
Working with control objects
Position The following properties allow you to set the coordinates (location) and size of the
dropbox object:
X , Y , Width
You can also set the dropbox object’s location and size settings by dragging the
object and/or its boundaries on the canvas (see
page 5-13 and page 5-14 ).
Click on the links or see “Control object properties” on page 15-2 for a description
of each of these properties.
Appearance The following properties allow you to set the style and formatting of the dropbox
object:
Font , Forecolor , BackColor , Tab Index
Click on the links or see “Control object properties” on page 15-2 for a description
of each of these properties.
You can also assign a font to the dropbox object’s content by selecting the
dropbox object on the canvas and using the Font toolbar on Xstudio’s desktop
(
page 3-20 ).
Links The following properties allow you to associate a lookup table and/or data source
which will populate the content of the dropbox object:
Lookup Table , Lookup Location , Data Source , Data Update , Data Target , Data
Auto Write , Scene Element , Take Number , Scene Update
Click on the links or see “Control object properties” on page 15-2 for a description
of each of these properties.
See “Linking objects to a data source” on page 9-1 for more information.
User Properties User-defined properties. You can associate your own properties with an object.
For example, the property may store data that can then be recalled by a script
during playout.
To add a user property, click the grey cell in the first column and type the
property’s name. Enter the property’s initial value in the cell next to it. You can
also leave it blank and perhaps populate it during playout by a calling the Set
Property action (see
page 10-41 ).
Repeat the above steps to add addition user properties.
Category Dropbox object properties