Creating a Rotator Control

Scenario

You want to draw a rotator command control to command and view, for example, the Present Value of an Analog Output data point, using a rotator command control on your graphic.

There are two methods of doing this:

• You can gather object type information for a data point and then draw and configure a customized command symbol or graphical element, such as a button, that allows you to send commands from within a graphic.
• You can drag an existing default command symbol from a project library to a graphic. To add a default command symbol from a project library, proceed directly to Designating and Adding a Default Command Symbol to a Graphic.

Additionally,

• For overall background information, see Command Control Configuration.
• For Command Control and Navigation properties background information, see Command Control Properties and Command and Navigation Properties.
• For an overview on the Rotator command control, see Command Control Elements and Symbols.
• For symbols background support when creating command control symbols, see Symbol Property Substitution.

Prerequisites

• You have reviewed Preparing to Create Controls to Command Objects
• System Manager is in Engineering mode.

Overview