IO Button Entity
This tool allows the user to create a
button and link to items in the input/output (IO) menu. This will allow
the user to turn tools on and off without going into the tool. This
button can be placed on and used from a slide.
Important
note: in order for this to work the user must change the Auto
Refresh Time Interval to 100 in the CIF Viewer. The user can do this by
scolling down the ROTMain Menu and editing the "CIF Viewer #1" (or
whatever number viewer it is). Go to the "Viewer" page and type 100
into the Auto Refresh Time Interval box. If this is not done the button
will not be able to toggle, or appear to be working.
Using the IO Button Entity
Drag
the tool directly from its original placement onto the slide in the CIF
Viewer. This will bring up a box that will contain the button once the buttont is created.
The user can adjust the size of the box before
they try to create the button by clicking and draging on the
corner or sides of the box. Clicking and draging the image from the
center of the box will change the location of the box. These steps can
also be done once the button is in place.
Right Click on the box to begin creating the button.
Inputs
The
Inputs page allows the user to drag and drop one of the IO Tools onto
the IO box on the page. Once to tool is dropped onto the page the user
needs to choose what the button will control in the IO.
Example: This
user placed the Digital IO Collection on the IO spot. This user chose
AUX 3. That means that when used it will turn AUX 3 on and off in the
IO menu from the slide.

Button
This
allows the user to choose what the button will look like and how it
will interact on the slide. They can also choose to put a caption on
the button and where and what that text will look like.
From
the button menu the user can select the "..." button in order to find
pre-created buttons that the user can use located within the icons
folder. Rectangle
This
allows the user to set the Center X, Center Y, Width, Height, Fix
Ascpect W/H, and the Angle of how the object will appear on the slide.
Entity
This
allows the user to adjust the Color, Highlight Color, Thickness, and
Handle size of the image box that holds the image and allows the user
to adjust the image. The Coordinate system adjusts the original
placement of the image on the screen.
Once the button is created it can be viewed at work while the program is in "Run" and/or "Step" mode.