Gauges

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

3D Knob
Custom Gauge
3D Top Meter
3D Right Meter
3D Bottom Meter
3D Left Meter
Guage #1-8

Field

Description

Operation mode

There are several different operation modes for gauges :

Indicator – gauges only displays the value of the Item, the control is read only
Control – The gauges 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 gauges .

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.
Background image	A possible new background image can be placed here.
Back color	This color will fill the background of the gauges .
Title color	The color of the caption on top of the gauges.
Pointer color	The base color of the pointer in a gauges . This color only is used when the gauges style implements a pointer.
Fill color	The color of the filled part of the gauges.
Undefined state color	The color of the filled part of the gauges 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.
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 gauges .