ActiveVOS Designer User’s Guide
For all of ActiveVOS’s activity icons, you can change the font size, colors, borders, and other visual properties. In addition, you can change the activity icons to impart more meaningful visual representation for the type of process you are building.
You can set defaults for all processes, as described in Layout Preferences, or you can modify visual properties for individual processes and activities.
Here are some examples.
Example 1: Add a border, change font size for an activity.
Example 2: Select your own images for activities by setting the Image Location property for each activity.
Example 3: Change the link router style from Manhattan to Manual. The manual style draws a straight link, rather than a stair-step style link, and allows you to set the angle for a link transition. A Shortest Path style link travels around the border of objects to link two activities.
The following table lists the visual properties you can set for various activities. Not all properties apply to all activities.
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Property |
Description |
|---|---|
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Background Color |
Fill color, if the Transparent property is No |
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Border |
Yes/No selection to display a border on a drawing item |
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Border Color |
Opens a dialog for you to choose a basic or custom color for the border of a drawing item |
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Expanded |
For a container, such as a Scope, a Yes/No display indicating whether the container’s contents are displayed or hidden. This setting changes when you select Expand or Collapse from the container’s right-mouse menu. |
|
Font |
Font to use for label |
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Font Color |
Color for labels |
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Image Display |
The image to draw if any |
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Image Location |
File system location and name of the image file. See the Tips section below for multi-selecting activities to change their images. |
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Image Text Gap |
Select the size for the gap between an activity icon and the label |
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Label |
Select the display format for an activity label. See Selecting Activity Labels. |
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Label Alignment |
Align text (left, right, center, top, bottom) |
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Label Placement |
For a drawing object, placement of text label relative to image |
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Location |
The XY location on the canvas of the object |
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Orientation |
For a container, set the vertical or horizontal orientation for activities within the sequence |
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Primary Alignment |
For a Sequence activity, sets the alignment for the group of activities |
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Secondary Alignment |
For a Sequence activity, set the alignment position of the activities within the sequence. |
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Size |
The current size on canvas |
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Size to Fit |
Set to Yes to restrict resizing of the selected drawing object. Select No to permit resizing of the drawing object. |
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Text |
For a drawing object, text label |
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Transparency Level |
For a drawing object, set the value of transparency. A larger value decreases the transparency. |
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Transparent |
Yes/No setting. If you select No, you can set the Background color |
Tips for setting visual properties:
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