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.
| Element Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Parameter | A parameter entry field. |
| Read-Only Parameter | A parameter display field which does not allow the parameter to be edited. |
| Radio Buttons | A parameter entry field specially for CHOICE parameters. |
| Fault | A special display element to display a fault flag. It shows the textual description of the fault and it's state in an entry field frame. The right mouse button shows a context menu to change the fault's priority. |
| Label | Displays a single line of text. |
| 3D Frame | Draws a sunken 3D frame, may be used to group parameters. |
| Rectangle | Draws a rectangle. |
| Line / Arrow | Draws a horizontal/vertical line or arrow. |
| Icon | Places an icon (GIF or JPG image) into the screen. Optionally the icon can be programmed to change with a parameter value. |
| EDIT Button | Places an EDIT button into the screen, implicitly forcing the EDIT/TAKE operating method for this screen instead of changing each parameter independently. |
| TAKE Button | Places a TAKE button into the screen. |
| LOCK Button | A button to control the lock state for exclusive operation for a number of devices. |
| Device Icon | 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. |
| Switch Icon | 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. |
| Frame Button | Defines a button which launches another screen, e.g. for detail views. |
| Parameter Button | A button which sends a certain parameter value when pressed. |
| Latching Button | A button which displays/controls a 2-state parameter using it's pressed state. |
| Gauge | A gauge element, displaying a numeric parameter as a horizontal bar. |
| Strip Chart | A strip chart element, displaying a numeric parameter as an y/t diagram that automatically advances with 1 pixel / second. |
| Spectrum Display | The spectrum display element integrates the spectrum display of a spectrum analyzer device in a user screen. |
| MCP Display | The MCP display element integrates the measurement display of a spectrum analyzer device in multi channel measurement mode in a user screen. |
| ODM Target List | 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. |
| XY Chart | 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. |
| JSON List | This is a special screen element required for some devices which distribute a state table/list in JSON format. |
| Thumbnail Icon | A screen element to show thumbnail images from the video processed by an encoder / decoder / gateway device which supports this feature. |