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Options on the States tab of the List Indicator Properties dialog box

The following table shows the options on the States tab of the List Indicator Properties dialog box.

Options

Descriptions

Select state

Click the state for which to set up properties.

General

 

Value

Type the integer value to use for each state. When the Indicator connection changes to this value, this state become the highlighted state.

Caption

Enter the text for the state. The text appears on the face of the object, to give the operator information about the current state.

Insert Variable

Click this button to select the type of variable to be inserted.

Caption color

This box shows the current text color for the caption when the state is not selected. Click it to select another color.

Caption back color

This box shows the current background color for the caption when the state is not selected. Click it to select another color.

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

Caption blink

Select this check box if you want the caption to blink at run time. The caption blinks twice per second.

Caption back style

Select whether the caption’s background is Solid or Transparent.

If you select Transparent, the object’s background is not filled in and any objects behind it show through.

Alignment

Specifies how the caption is positioned on the object. If the object shape is circle or ellipse, the position is relative to the object's bounding box.

See also

Create list indicators

Configure the list indicator

Set up connections for the list indicator

How the list indicator works at run time

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