Graphics Editor (GEDI)
Used for creating and editing panels, provides tools for creating and configuring graphic objects.
- GEDI, basics
- The catalog window
- The Script Editor
- The Property Sheet
- Creating graphics objects
- Simple graphics objects
- Complex graphics objects
- Simple Configuration
  Simple configuration windows and panels support you in combining events (such as a mouse click) with different actions such as setting data point values, showing panels or changing attributes.
- ScriptWizard
  Simple wizard for creating graphical user interfaces for users without prior programming knowledge.
- Version control, basics
- Style Sheets, basics
- Standard Symbols (STD_Symbols)
  Symbol library consisting of graphics objects for the quick display and design of system diagrams.
- Expandability of GEDI
- Simple Symbols, basics
  The "Simple Symbols" functionality is used to simply assign corresponding symbols to data point types and increase the working comfort when working with different symbols.
- Layout management
  Layouts change the size and position of objects according to parameters previously defined in the GEDI.
- Object-Oriented Panel References
  Reusable objects built with the GEDI tools. Insert them within an existing panel to provide a graphical element.
- Input Recording
- Basics on Encryption

Creating graphics objects

The Object icon bar contains the tools for creating graphic objects.

Figure 1. The Object icon bar - graphics tools

The following chapter shows how you use each tool with the help of examples:

The default font for all graphic objects can be set with the "Font" option in the "Format" menu.