Visualization

Visualization shows the animation screens you have designed as they run. The designer’s editing tools are not there; the screen simply updates itself with live values.

The dropdown at the top picks the project, and that project’s main animation opens.

What you see

Every element on the screen is bound to a variable and behaves according to its value: a number updates, an indicator changes colour, a bar fills, a pump turns. What is bound to what is defined on the animation side.

A main animation has to be marked

This screen opens the animation marked as the project’s main one. With none marked, the screen stays empty and says so. The mark is on the animation’s own definition.

How this differs from the designer

	Visualization	The animation designer
Purpose	Watching and commanding	Drawing and binding
Values	Live	Live, alongside the design tools
Who gets it	The operator	The developer

An operator role is typically given this screen and not the designer: an operator needs to use the screen, not change it.

Commanding

Where a click event is bound to an element, a value can be written from here. That is a control command: it requires the SET_VARIABLE_VALUE permission, and if the variable carries an operation lock the password is asked for.

Related

• Animations — designing the screens
• Dashboards — screens built from ready-made components
• Control Panel — the raw values
• Shell Views and Kiosk Mode — changing the frame around this screen