When you create an object, its colors are the FactoryTalk View Studio default colors for the object. To change the colors, you can use the Foreground Color and Background Color toolbars, the Property Panel, or the object’s Properties dialog box.
To open the toolbars, from the View menu, select Toolbars.
The number of color properties an object has depends on the type of object and how you set it up. For example, a button with states can have up to seven different colors for each state. When you select colors using the color toolbars, some properties are assigned the foreground color and some are assigned the background color. Other color properties, such as Fill color, cannot be assigned using the color toolbars. For these, use the object's Properties dialog box or Property Panel.
For drawing objects (except image and panel) you can select colors from the color toolbars before you draw an object (either before or after you click the object's tool). Other objects are always drawn using their default colors, but you can select the objects and then click the toolbars to change their colors.
The default colors for drawing objects change when you use the Foreground Color and Background Color toolbars. When you select a color in the Foreground or Background toolbar, that color becomes the default value for all future drawing objects (except the panel and image objects), whether or not you have selected an object in the display. The same is true of the Back Style and Pattern Style toolbars. If you use these toolbars to change a back style or pattern style, the style you select becomes the new default.
In these toolbars, the color or style that shows as selected in the toolbar is the default color or style, not the color or style of the currently selected object in the display.
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Use the color toolbars to assign colors to the following properties.
Foreground Color toolbar |
Background Color toolbar |
Border Color |
Back Color |
Caption Color |
Background Color |
Fore Color |
Caption Back Color |
Foreground Color |
Image Back Color |
Image Color |
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Legend Color |
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Line Color |
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Needle Color |
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Pattern Color |
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Click the appropriate colored box to select a basic color.
You can define up to 16 custom colors. To select one, click the appropriate box.
Select a pattern style for graphic objects