I'm working on a new project and I'd like some advice on how to create
custom controls to use on a graphical process display. This will
display a water pipeline system with all it's tanks, pipe, valves,
flow/pressure meters etc. One of the items I have to display is a water
tank and I need to display how much water is in it as both a number and
a graphical representation of the water level. I've got the gist of the
drawing managed but I'm going to have to have several of these and I
don't want to hand create them every time so I'm looking to make a
"water tank" custom control.
I need to put it somewhere, send it a current level which would update
the numeric display and set the "water" level. I'd also like to size
them so I could have big ones and small ones.
That's a long introduction to my actual question. I know I can make a
group of the various parts and script the updating and possibly sizing
using behavior scripts but once I've created it, where to I put it? Do
I create a stack with this group on it and then clone it where I need
it? Do I copy and paste (via script)? I can't add it to the Rev
graphic object pallet like the datagrid is now.
This is not the only custom control I'm going to need so I'm looking for
a generic way to handle this kind of thing. In the end, the program
will not only have a display of our pipeline but I'd also like to have a
separate design program to create the system diagrams in case any other
pipelines want to use the program.
len morgan
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