Sliders

This section contains an assortment of sliders with different appearances. The general functionality of the sliders is the same. Therefore the “Object”, tab “Appearance”, and tab “Axis” of each slider style are identical to each other.
The following slider styles are available:

V. Fill Slide
V. Pointer Slide
V. Progress Bar
H. Fill Slide
V. Progress Bar
Thermometer
H. Pointer Slide
H. 3D Bar
V. 3D Bar

Field

Description

Operation mode

There are several different operation modes for sliders:

Indicator – sliders only displays the value of the Item, the control is read only
Control – The slider will display the value of a Server Item as much as it can send its value to several Server Items.

Scale factor

This is the multiplier the Server Item value will be scaled with before being displayed.

Server Items

The Server Item/s assigned to the sliders.

Send : sending the value to the Server Item for setting it’s value.
Receive: getting the value from the server for putting it to the control.

The tab Appearance is structured as follows:

Field	Description
Style	It is possible to switch between the above mentioned styles back and forth.
Back color	This color will fill the background of the slider solidly in a rectangle.
Title color	The color of the caption on top of the slider.
Pointer color	The base color of the pointer in a slider. This color only is used when the slider style implements a pointer.
Fill color	The color of the filled part of the slider.
Interior color	The color of the empty part of the slider scale.
Undefined state color	The color of the filled part of the slider in its “Undefined” state.

The tab Axis is structured as follows:

Field	Description
Visible	Determines whether the axis scale and title should be shown or not.
Caption	If set this caption will be shown along the scale of the slider.
Caption color	Changes the color of the axis caption .
Label color	The color of the displayed numbers along the axis scale.
Axis color	Sets the color for the hair lines along the axis scale.
Maximum value	Determines the maximum value of the axis scale.
Minimum value	Sets the minimum value possible to be displayed and set with the slider.