Options on the General tab of the Alarm Status List Properties dialog box

Specify the object's appearance in this area.

Select a border style for the object.

Type the number of pixels for the width of the object’s border.

Specifies the object background. Available options are:

Select this check box to use the object’s background color for the border of the object.

Clear this check box to use the selected

Border Color

.

This box shows the current background color for the object. Click it to select another color.

If the background style is gradient, click it to open the gradient fill dialog box to configure the gradient fill.

This box shows the border color for the object. Click it to select another color.

If

Border uses back color

is not selected, this color appears at runtime.

This box shows the color of the text shown on the object. Click it to select another color.

If

Use alarm colors

is selected, the application does not use this color. Instead, it shows messages using the

Foreground

and

Background

colors defined on the

Messages

tab of the

Alarm Setup

editor.

This box shows the current color for the heading bar at the top of the object. Click it to select another color.

This box shows the current color for the text in the heading bar at the top of the object. Click it to select another color.

This box shows the color for the highlight bar. Click it to select another color.

Select this check box to show alarm messages using the

Background

and

Foreground

colors defined in the

Alarm Setup

editor instead of the

Fore color

and

Back color

selections on this tab.

Select the font to use for the message.

Select the font size to use for the message.

Select a font style for the message, if required.

Select this check box to allow the user to navigate to the object using the keyboard and give the object input focus.

Select this check box if you want the list to wrap from the end of the list to the beginning when scrolling down, and from the beginning of the list to the end when scrolling up.

Select this check box to write the alarm identifier value assigned to the alarm message to the tag specified for the AlarmIdentifier connection.