Work with the Industrial Graphic Editor

You can create Industrial Graphics from basic elements such as rectangles, lines, circles, or text much like graphics created from WindowMaker. The Industrial Graphic Editor also includes other graphic tools to create more complex drawing elements like closed curves, chords, and Windows controls.

Industrial Graphics are graphics you can add to a Modern application window to visualize data in a production process. You create Industrial Graphics in the Industrial Graphic Editor. You select a basic graphical object called an element from the Tools panel and place it on the drawing area called the canvas. Then, you can change the appearance of your drawn elements either by accessing their properties directly, or by modifying their physical appearance. You can configure the elements or the symbol with animations.

The Industrial Graphic Editor also supports import of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) as Industrial Graphics.

The following figure shows the various tools and palettes of the Industrial Graphic Editor that you use to create and customize symbols.

When you embed an Industrial Graphic into an InTouch window and the symbol is contained in an Automation template, you can easily create a new instance of the Automation object. The embedded symbol automatically references the new object.

After you build your managed application from the IDE, you can publish it. A published InTouch application is no longer associated with the InTouchViewApp template and cannot be edited from the IDE. But, a published InTouch application can still communicate with the Galaxy by any embedded Industrial Graphic. You can write data back to the Galaxy or visualize Galaxy data with the Industrial Graphic.