HMI General Options

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• Colors Palette
  • Display All Colors - Shows both the non-indexed and indexed colors.
  • Display Indexed Colors Only - Disables display of the non-indexed colors in the palette.
  • Display Base Colors Only - Disables display of the indexed colors in the palette.
• Mimics Open Mode
  • Design Mode - Mimics are opened in design mode.
  • Run Mode - Mimics are open in run-time mode. This is the default selection.
• Menus commands access
  • Disable Reference set execution mode - Disable the reference set run time operation mode. The corresponding tools on the Mode tool bar are greyed out.
  • Disable Test Set execution mode - Disable the test set run time operation mode. The corresponding tools on the Mode tool bar are greyed out.
• Automatic User Logoff - Activates the automatic logoff of users after a period of inactivity. If enabled, the Warning time-out (in seconds) can be defined. The automatic logoff, including the maximum time of inactivity can be tuned on a per-profile basis. For more information, see the topic Using automatic logoff in the Application Explorer book.
• Design tools
  • Polyline & Bézier curve selection - Choose the way in which selection of polylines and Bézier curves are selected in design mode.
• Runtime tools
  • Polyline and Bézier curve selection - Choose the way in which control zones based on polylines and Bézier curves are selected in run mode.
• Mouse commands (2D) (See the topic IntelliMouse support.)
  • Mimic zoom - Default: Ctrl + wheel.
  • Mimic hand tool panning - Default: Shift + middle button down.
  • Mimic automatic panning - Default: Ctrl + middle button down.
  • Mimic and Workspace scroll - Default vertical: Wheel, Default horizontal: Shift + wheel.
  • Workspace automatic panning - Default: Shift + middle button click.
• Mouse inputs - Configuration of the HMI's response to the mouse over and button clicks.
  • Display control zone - Display a button style highlight whenever the mouse is over any drawing element that has a control zone animation.
  • Open context mimics on - Select which button click(s) and key combination(s) that a context mimic opens on.
  • Support legacy behavior for alarm & log viewers - Enable the legacy behavior of the alarm and log viewers in which a context mimic is opened by either right or left mouse button clicks.
  • Process associated actions on - Select which button click(s) and key combination(s) that cause an associated action to be processed by the alarm viewer.
  • Process command animations on - Select which button click(s) and key combination(s) that cause a command animation to be processed.

Examples of Bézier curve selection

The red areas and the red line in the pictures below indicate where you can click to select a drawing element. They are not marked in the graphic editor.

• Bounding rectangle area. Show picture
  
• Shape area. Show picture
  
• Edges. Show picture