Difference between revisions of "Exercise - System Panel - Controlling Shapes"

Revision as of 13:27, 29 May 2013

The following assumes that you have added a single LED to the System Panel, as described in Exercise - System Panel - Adding Objects.

The aim of this exercise is to mount the LED on the car's instrument panel, and to control the viewpoint of the resulting component.

Open the flowchart "System_Panel_Add_LED" which you created in Exercise - System Panel - Adding Objects.
Click and drag an ellipse onto the System Panel.
Click on it to select it. You will see five properties listed on the Panel Properties,

'Shape', 'Color', 'Outline', 'Thickness' and 'Image'.

The default 'color' property is red (0x0000C0). Click on tis value, and change the color to black (0x000000).

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-The following assumes that you have added a single LED to the Systems Panel, as described in [[Exercise - System Panel - Adding Objects]].
+The following assumes that you have added a single LED to the [[System Panel]], as described in [[Exercise - System Panel - Adding Objects]].
 The aim of this exercise is to mount the LED on the car's instrument panel, and to control the viewpoint of the resulting component.
 * Open the flowchart "System_Panel_Add_LED" which you created in [[Exercise - System Panel - Adding Objects]].
-* Click and drag an ellipse, [[File:
+* Click and drag an ellipse onto the System Panel. [[File:gen_exerciseSystemPanelcontrolviewpoint_addellipse_01.png|150px|right]]
+* Click on it to select it. You will see five properties listed on the Panel Properties,
+: 'Shape', 'Color', 'Outline', 'Thickness' and 'Image'.
+* The default 'color' property is red (0x0000C0). Click on tis value, and change the color to black (0x000000).