Use colors for various types of alarm records

You can set color options for different alarm states that appear in the Alarm Viewer control.

Configure the alarm display colors

1. Right-click the Alarm Viewer control and then select Properties. The AlarmViewerCtrl Properties dialog box appears.

2. Select the Color tab.

   

3. Select each color box to open the color palette. Select the color that you want to use in the palette for each of the following:

   Property	Description
   Window	Sets display background color.
   Title Bar Text	Sets title bar text color (available only if Show Heading option is selected).
   Alarm Return	Sets color of returned alarms (alarms that have returned to normal without being acknowledged).
   Grid	Sets color of the grid. By default the grid is not shown. The default grid color is light gray. The color of the grid in the alarm object is automatically set to a contrasting color of the selected Window color.
   Title Bar Background	Sets title bar background color (available only if the Show Heading option is selected).
   Event	Sets color of events.

4. In the Alarm Priority boxes, type alarm priority numbers that serve as breakpoints for the different colors used to identify unacknowledged alarms, acknowledged alarms, and flashing unacknowledged alarms.

5. Select the UnAck Alarm and Ack Alarm color boxes to open the color palette. Select the color in the palette that you want to use.

6. To configure the alarm query to flash unacknowledged alarms, select the General tab, select the Flash Unack Alarms check box, then select the Color tab and select the Flash Unack Alarms color boxes. Select the color that you want to use for each alarm priority range.

   Note: The Alarm Viewer control cannot show changes that occur in less than a second. If an alarm changes state twice within a second, the Alarm Viewer control does not recognize the change.

7. Select Apply.