Control Panel Pages Pane

Displays a list of all the custom control panel pages used in the design. By default this window is empty but, once a custom control panel has been created it will appear here if that panel is selected to edit. Any pages that are then layered onto this panel are then shown in a tree structure below it.

Clicking on the various pages in the list will select and bring that page to front in the design space.

Right click on a page to see a drop down menu.

New page

Click on a page to create a new child page one level down in the hierarchy.

Rename page

Pages can be renamed

Set as start page

Only one page can be set as the start page. Setting a page as the start page will override the previous assignment

New sibling master page

Can only be created at the top (master) level

Delete page

Pages can be deleted

Select Objects on Page

Will select all the objects on the page which is highlighted in the Control Panel Pages Pane. The selected objects are shown with a grey box around them.

Select all child objects

Will select all the objects on the page which is highlighted in the Control Panel Pages Pane as well as all the objects on the pages below it in the hierarchy.

Tip: A good example of how this works can be seen if you drag a FDS366 OmniDrive onto the layout and double click it to see its control panel. With this window viewable you will be able to see how the different layers of the control panel are constructed using pages to replace whole areas of controls with displays etc.

Pages are somewhat similar in operation to frames on an internet web site where parts of a layout can change without affecting other areas.