Industrial Icons are graphical components used in user interface navigation design, enabling the creation of globally recognizable and user-friendly interfaces. Their purpose is to facilitate intuitive navigation within solution displays. This page presents information about industrial icons, showing how to use them in your solutions.
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Understanding Industrial Icons
The Industrial Icons refer to graphical elements for creating intuitive navigation into your applications. They are available to use in two approaches on the Displays/Draw:
Industrial
Icons font-familyIcon Font Family
The Industrial Icons industrial icon font family approach converts alphanumeric characters into icons, it . It requires the character-to-icon conversion table.
You need to insert a component into the display to use this feature in your solution. Usually, we use a text output object (TTextBlock) to insert the character to convert to the selected industrial icon. After that, we changed the font family to Industrial Icons located at the end of the list. You do this by pressing the Font button in the Text configuration in the Drawing Properties panel to open the font settings popup.
- Go to Displays → Draw.
- Add a component into the display — such as TTextBlock.
- Click once on the component you just added to select it.
- On Drawing Properties → Text located at the right panel, click the font name to open the Font selection window.
- Scroll down until the end of the list and select the last option (IndustrialIcons).
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Blue squares with rounded edges show the icons. Gray squares show the corresponding characters. |
Drag-and-
drop graphical componentDrop Graphical Component
The drag-and-drop approach allows you to select the icon from the Industrial Icons category in the Components Panel.
- Go to Displays → Draw.
- On the Components Panel
- , select IndustrialIcons.
- Drag-and-drop the icon at your choice to the Drawing area.
Differences
between approachesBetween Approaches
Both approaches support size, color, and alignment controls, but each handles these slightly differently.
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Using Industrial Icons in Solution Displays
Add the desired icon to your display. Double-click on the icon to access the Settings and Dynamics tabs. Enable the Action, set the Event to MouseLeftButtonDown, set the Action to OpenDisplay, and select the target display. This configuration triggers specific displays through user interaction with the icons, improving navigation and functionality.
Inserting
Users have two methods for inserting industrial icons to their displays.
The first method is by using the Industrial Icon font family. To do this, usually, users add .
- Go to Displays → Draw.
- Add a text output
- — such as TTextBlock.
- Type the corresponding character code
- .
- Access the font settings
- and choose an icon from the
- IndustrialIcon font.
The second method is to select the industrial icons from the Components Panel. Users can open
- Go to Displays → Draw.
- On the Components Panel,
- select the component you wish by clicking it.
- Once selected, click on the Drawing area to add the component to the display.
Configuring
- Add
Configuring
After adding- the desired icon to your display
- Double-click
- the icon to access the Settings and Dynamics tabs.
- Check the Action checkbox.
- Set the Event to MouseLeftButtonDown
- .
- Set the Action
- to OpenDisplay
- and select the target display.
This configuration triggers specific displays through user interaction with the icons, improving navigation and functionality.
Character
into-Icon Conversion
The complete conversion table is available below.
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