Technical Reference Manual - InduSoft

Creating a New Project
• Enable ToolTips checkbox: Click (enable) this box to see Windows ToolTips when running your project. You
can configure tooltips in the Hint field of the Object Properties dialog of each object.
• Auto Screen Scaling checkbox: Click (enable) this box to automatically scale project screens when you resize
the Viewer window. This feature is available for local projects running on Windows PC or in the Thin
Client. This parameter is not available for projects running on Windows Embedded target systems.
• Active area indication pane: Click (enable) the Show Object Edge and Change Mouse Cursor checkboxes in this
area to modify the object edge and the mouse cursor when moving the cursor over any object where the
Command animation has been applied.
• Virtual Keyboard: When this option is checked, the Virtual Keyboard is enabled for your project. (This option
does not apply when your project is running on a Thin Client; for more information, see Project Settings:
Web.) The keyboard allows the user to enter data during runtime on touchscreen panels — that is, without
typing on a physical keyboard. For example, a Text object with the Text Data Link animation applied and
the Input Enabled option checked.
You can establish a default configuration for the virtual keyboard:
• Default: Select the default keyboard type to be used in your project, when no keyboard type is specified
by the calling object or function.
• Scale: Using this option, you can shrink or enlarge the keyboard to fit the size of the target display. A
value of 100% represents the default size of each keyboard type.
• Show Hint checkbox and field: When this option is checked, a hint is displayed in the title bar of the
keyboard. For individual objects, the hint is configured in the Object Properties dialog. Otherwise, type a
string value in the Show Hint field to serve as a defaut hint.
• Enable Min/Max Fields option: When this option is checked, the minimum and maximum allowed values
are displayed at the bottom of the keyboard. For objects, these values are configured in the Object
Properties dialog. Otherwise, the Min and Max properties of the associated Tag are used by default.
Note: The Min and Max fields are displayed only on the Keypad keyboard type, and only when
the associated Tag is defined as Integer or Real. If Min is greater than Max, then input will be
disabled. If Min/Max configured on the object is different from Min/Max configured in the Tag
properties, then your project will attempt to scale the input accordingly.
• Built-in Dialogs combo box: Select or type the scale at which the built-in dialogs (i.e., Logon, E-Sign, and
Virtual Keyboard) should be displayed during run time. This will make it easier to see and use the dialogs
on project runtime clients with small, high-resolution displays. You can specify a scale between 100%
(native resolution) and 400%, or you can select Auto which means the client will automatically select the
best scale for the display.
• Mouse Cursor checkbox: Click (enable) this box to show the mouse cursor in the runtime project.
Note: The Mouse Cursor option is not supported in Windows CE running on Armv4I processors.
• Execute only topmost object commands checkbox: This option controls how your project behaves when the
user clicks in an area where two or more screen objects overlap. If this option is checked, then only the
commands on the topmost object will be executed. If this option is not checked, then the commands on all
of the overlapping objects will be executed.
Note: The topmost object is the one with the highest ID number. (The ID number of an object is
displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the development environment.) You can use the Move
to Back / Move to Front and Move Backward / Move Forward tools to change the order in which objects are
stacked.
• Enable focus on buttons, commands and text objects: This option is selected by default. When it is selected, clicking
on on a command button or text input during runtime will put focus on that object, as shown in the
illustration below:
Focus on text input (left), no focus on text input (right)
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