Command Control Page Element Dialog Box

How to Access

This is a sub-dialog box of the Control Page Designer dialog. To access the Control Page Designer, see Control Page Designer Dialog Box

Open the common Page/Page Element properties dialog for the Command control that you wish to view in one of the following two ways:

Double-click on the command control in the page layout workspace.
Select the command control by clicking on it, then click on the Properties menu button in the Control Page Designer toolbar:

Purpose

Provides the ability to view and modify properties for the currently selected command control page element in the page layout workspace.

User Interface Elements

The command control appears as follows on the control page:

Color Properties

All of the color properties below use a common set of controls similar to the following:

When the Use Theme is configured, which is the default, Halogen uses the current page theme color.

When Custom is configured, Halogen uses the color shown in the color chooser. To select a new custom color, click on the color chooser drop-down arrow and scroll the list to find the color that you desire to use, then click on it.

The number beside the color in the color chooser is a unique reference number for that color to help you set the custom color to a specific color, perhaps matching a custom color that you've selected for a page element.

The color reset button resets the custom color to the current theme color and changes the selection to Use Theme.

Layout Properties

All of the layout properties below use a common set of controls similar to the following:

As you change the page element's position or size, the layout properties change to reflect the current settings.

You can also change position or size by entering new values directly into the Layout property text boxes.

note: Some page elements do not support resizing in both dimensions. In this case, the layout properties area shows all of the settings (X, Y, W, and H), but disables those you cannot change. For example, the HAL system sets a Selector control's height according to the number of selections in the active link. Because of this, the control page designer disables the H text box for the control.

The reset button resets Height and Width to the defaults for the page element's selected Size.

UI Element	Purpose
Name	This is the name of the external control, which is the same as the name in the Control Page Designer palette. To change the name, enter a new value in the text box.
Layout	The top left (X,Y) position and height and width of the command control.
Size	A drop down menu which selects the overall size of the command control as it appears on the control page.
Label: Show	Check this box to show the command control's label on the control page. Uncheck it to hide the label.
Label: Text	This is the text of the command control's label on the control page. It is the same as the label of the external control.
Label: Text color	This is the color setting for the command control's Label text.
Layering	All elements on a control page can overlap each other and are layered according to the order that you added them to the page. If you'd like to adjust the order so that this element appears either behind or in front of the other elements it overlaps, use these controls. To move the element to the top of the order, so that it is in front of all other elements on the page, click the icon. To move the element to the bottom of the order, so that it is behind all other elements on the page, click the icon.
Enable	This checkbox enables or disables the control on the control page. When a control is enabled, it is fully operational on the page and the user can change the control's value. When disabled, the control appears grayed out (dim) and the user can see the control's value but cannot change it. This enable control is the same as the Enable for the external control and you can link it to another toggle control in the Halogen configuration to control the enable state when the system is operating.