2.16.2.1 Display element types and their properties

The table below shows the types of display elements the screen editor supports. A detailed description of the individual element types is given on the following pages.

Type Description
Arrow element Draws a horizontal/vertical line or arrow.
AzEl element A chart showing the tracking history of an antenna controller as a point cloud in an elevation over azimuth coordinate system.
Button element Defines a button which launches another screen, e.g. for detail views.
Chart element A chart element, displaying a numeric parameter as an y/t diagram that automatically advances with 1 pixel / second.
Device icon element Places an icon into the screen which represents a device. This icon will display the device's operating/fault state by it's color / shape.
Display element A parameter display field in which the parameter cannot be edited.
Frame element Draws a sunken 3D frame, may be used to group parameters.
Gauge element A gauge element, displaying a numeric parameter as a horizontal bar.
Icon element Places an icon (GIF or JPG image) into the screen. Optionally the icon can be programmed to change with a parameter value.
Latching button element A button which displays/controls a 2-state parameter using it's pressed state.
Parameter button element A button which sends a certain parameter value when pressed.
Parameter element A parameter entry field.
Radio button element A parameter entry field specially for Choice parameters.
Rect element Draws a rectangle.
Spectrum element The spectrum display element integrates the spectrum display of a spectrum analyzer device in a user screen.
Switch element Like the device icon. but additionally displays the actual position of a switch (Meant to be used for block diagrams showing the true signal path).
Target list element The ODM Target List element shows the list of targets of a SatService-ACU-ODM antenna controller device. It permits to recall, save or delete target definitions of this type of antenna controller. It is specialized to this antenna controller, does not support other types.
Text element Displays a line of text.
Thumbnail icon element A screen element to show thumbnail images from the video processed by an encoder / decoder / gateway device which supports this feature.
XY chart element This element shows the relation of two numeric variables in an X/Y diagram, featuring a trace which shows the recent history of the values with a configurable depth. The update rate, the diagram scaling and much more is configurable with this screen element.