Configuring color settings

It is possible to configure certain events to use different colors in the Event Display. This improves the possibility to locate certain system events. For example,

important events, which cause alarms in the system, can be defined to use the red color in the Event Display. For more information about configuring the event conditions, refer to the Application Design manual.

To use Color Settings, the authorization level Control is required. The Color Setting tool is in the read-only mode, if the authorization level is lower than Engineering (2) in the TOOLS authorization group. If the TOOLS authorization group is not found, the authorization group GENERAL is used.

The Color Settings dialog is used when the Event Display is customized with different colors for events on the list display. The coloring of events is defined with the one or multiple conditions defined in the Color Settings dialog, see Fig. 5.4.2.-1.

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Fig. 5.4.2.-1 Event Color Settings dialog

To add a new line to the list, click Add. Remove the selected line from the list by clicking Remove. The position of the selected line can be changed by clicking the

Up or Down buttons as required.

OK applies all the pending changes and closes the dialog window. Apply applies all

the pending changes but leaves the dialog window open. Cancel discards all the pending changes and closes the dialog window but does not cancel or undo changes that have already been applied. Help opens the help window.

The available operators for the conditions are described in Table 5.4.2-1. Table 5.4.2-1 Condition operators

Operator Function

== Equal than

< Less than

> Greater than

<= Less or equal than >= Greater or equal than <> Not equal to

The Value field contains the value that is compared to the selected attribute by using the selected comparison operator. It is possible to use the wildcard character * when defining the value of the Value field but then the only allowed operators are = and <>. For example, a value 5* means that the first character in the value must be 5 but the rest of the value can contain any number of arbitrary characters.

Color selection is done in Edit Colors dialog, see Fig. 5.4.2.-2. The selected color is displayed as a colored box.

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Fig. 5.4.2.-2 Default color setting tool

Color settings AND/OR conditions

Only one condition per color rule can be given. However, it is possible to combine 1-4 attributes to the color condition.

Color rule conditions are given via Color condition dialog (see Fig. 5.4.2.-3.) that contains four condition rows. The conditions are combined with AND- and OR- operators.

The drop-down list Attribute includes all possible attributes and their descriptions. The display of the possible attributes depends on which list control (Event, Alarm or Blocking Display) is used.

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Fig. 5.4.2.-3 Color condition dialog

The color condition dialog is accessed from the color settings dialog by clicking a button on the color rule line. In the color rule list of the color settings dialog, the conditions are expressed as text, for example AG >= 32 OR AR <> 222. The foreground color on Event, Alarm and Blocking Display rows can be defined according to the 1-4 attribute value.

Default settings to color settings

You can restore default settings in the color settings dialog. This function is already available in the layout settings dialog and in every settings dialog of the display control.

Default settings

button can be seen in the lower left corner of the color settings dialog, see Fig. 5.4.2.-4. When you click

Default Settings

the color settings are loaded from color.ini -file located in a folder returned by the method:

EABListComm::GetGlobal<Alarm|Blocking|Event>ConfFolder The color settings are updated to the dialog.

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Choosing background color to color settings

You can change the background color of every list control. It is also possible to change the Event Display's day break background color. The color is selected via Color Settings tool.

The Color settings dialog has edit buttons to open the Color Settings tool. Day Break color choosing components are visible only on Event Display.

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Fig. 5.4.2.-5 Selecting background color and day break color

Background colors of the List control are set according to the color settings.

Color rule predefinitions

Some predefined color rules need to be listed, see Fig. 5.4.2.-6. Define the color rules in the Color Settings dialog. Remove, for example, the color definitions of the Alarm Displays (Inactive/active alarm coloring). Select a predefined color rule from the drop-down list and add it to the color rule list. All the predefinitions are shown in a drop-down list in the Color Settings dialog. If there are no predefinitions, the drop-down list is disabled.

Select one of the predefinitions in the drop-down list and click

Add

to add the predefinition to the end of the color rule list. The name of the predefinition is shown on the condition column of the predefined color rule.

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Fig. 5.4.2.-6 Color rule predefinitions

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