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Options on the General tab of the Alarm Banner Properties dialog box

The following table shows the options on the General tab of the Alarm Banner Properties dialog box.

Options

Descriptions

Appearance

Specify the object's appearance in this area.

Border style

Select a border style for the object.

Border width

Type the number of pixels for the width of the object’s border.

Back style

Specifies the object background. Available options are:

  • Solid. The object’s background is filled with a solid color specified in the Back color option.
  • Transparent. The object’s background is not filled and any objects behind it show through.
  • Gradient. The object's background is filled with a linear gradient color.

     

Pattern style

Select a pattern for the object. The pattern appears on the face of the object. The pattern does not cover the object’s border or alarms. If the object’s back style is transparent or gradient, the pattern is not visible.

Border uses back color

Select this check box to use the object’s background color for the border of the object.

Clear this check box to use the selected Border Color.

Back color

This box shows the current background color for the object. Click it to select another color.

If the background style is transparent, the application does not use this background color.

If the background style is gradient, click it to bring up the Gradient Fill dialog box to configure the gradient fill.

Border color

This box shows the border color for the object. Click it to select another color.

If Border uses back color is not selected, this color appears at run time.

Pattern color

This box shows the current pattern color for the object. Click it to select another color.

Fore color

This box shows the color of the text shown on the object. Click it to select another color.

If Use alarm colors is selected, the application does not use this color. Instead, it shows messages using the Foreground and Background colors defined on the Messages tab of the Alarm Setup editor.

Use alarm colors

Select this check box to show alarm messages using the Background and Foreground colors defined in the Alarm Setup editor instead of the Fore color and Back color selections on this tab.

Blink

Select this check box if you want the alarm message to blink at run time. The blink rate is twice per second.

Text

The text properties apply to the alarm messages in the alarm banner.

Font

Select the font to use for the message.

Size

Select the font size to use for the message.

Bold, Italic, Underline

Select a font style for the message, if required.

Word wrap

Select this check box if you want the text to continue on the next line at the beginning of a new word.

If this check box is cleared, the text continues on the next line whenever the maximum text length is reached, even if this occurs in the middle of a word or number. The maximum text length depends on the width of the object and the font size.

Alignment

Select how you want the text to be positioned on the object.

Other

 

Key navigation

Select this check box to allow the user to navigate to the object using the keyboard and give the object input focus.

Use Alarm Identifier

Select this check box to write the alarm identifier value assigned to the alarm message to the tag specified for the AlarmIdentifier connection.

See also

Set up general properties for an alarm banner

Set up connections for an alarm banner

Options on the Message tab of the Alarm Setup editor

AlarmIdentifier