Use graphic thumbnails

When you place your mouse cursor over an Industrial Graphic in the Visualization folder, a thumbnail view of the graphic's displays. This allows you to preview the graphic without opening it.

The graphic thumbnail updates automatically when a change is made. However, thumbnails of graphics that contain embedded instances of the base graphic will not automatically update. You must manually do so by right clicking the graphic and selecting Update Thumbnail.

You can update graphic thumbnails from any of the following levels:

• individual graphic

• folder level

• update all graphics from the root of the Visualization folder

The time it takes to refresh a folder or the Visualization folder is proportional to the number of graphics each contains. This may take several minutes.

Note: If you have imported a newer version of a client control already embedded in a graphic, restarting WindowMaker and updating the graphic thumbnail will not update the contents of the newly imported control. To update the graphic with the contents of the new control, edit and save the graphic. The graphic thumbnail will then reflect the contents of the new control.