Fidelix FX-RP multiDISPLAY
Programming manual
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Fidelix Graphics Editor
What you should know before you edit pages
The Fidelix Graphics editor is not only used for making graphics for the multiDISPLAY. It is also used to make
pages for our larger controllers; the FX-line and Spider, for our multiLINK protocol converter, and our webVision
SCADA software. This means that some of the features in the graphics editor are not used for the multiDISPLAY
(and that is also why we first make HTML pages to subsequently convert them to a format that the multiDISPLAY
can read).
To open pages with the graphics editor, make sure your project folder structure is similar to this: all .htm files in
1 folder where there is also a folder called “Symbols”.
In the “EditPoint” dialog box, following features are NOT recognised by the multiDISPLAY: CSS file, CSS Class,
User level, Show info, Image rotation, Image Front colour and Symbol Front colour. All other features can be
used as with the other products.
The border-lines you see changing at different editing sizes (640, 800, 1024) are not used for the multiDISPLAY.
For the multiDISPLAY, the easiest way to mark the available graphics area is to put an element without pointID
at 320 (X) and 240 (Y) pixels like in the example files.
Important to know is also that the project folder and the graphics editor program folder have to be on the same
logical Windows drive (e.g. C:\) because of the same Windows rights reasons the editor needed to be unblocked.
With the editor, a set of .htm pages can be made. Links can be made between pages. Any number of elements
can be placed on the plane, keeping in mind the 320x240 pixel size of the display itself. This means that any
element positioned outside these boundaries will be ignored by the converter.
Make sure to read through the cheat sheet page that pops up when you
click the question mark next to the three flags. It contains useful tips for
working with the graphics editor.
Choose “ShowPoints” in the left menu or click right on an empty spot in your
page with no element selected and select “Show Points” for a fast way to
batch change multiple points in your page; for instance, if you need to make
5 identical pages for 5 devices, you can very quickly rename the points for
device 1 as 11, 12, 13 … 19, for device 2 as 21, 22, 23 … 29 etc.
Make sure to click the “Arrange” button in the
bottom left corner of the screen to have access
to some other very useful features of the
graphics editor.
