Style sheets

Style sheets apply to all graphic objects in the project or a specific class of objects, such as

Switch

objects.

FactoryTalk Optix Studio

includes default style sheet templates in the

Templates

window.

Style sheet properties include:

Text and background colors
Font family, thickness, font type, and weight
Padding
Opacity
Radius and border thickness
Animation duration

You can create more than one style sheet in the same project. This allows you to specify a different style sheet at runtime.

Some properties exist in both the style sheets and specific graphic objects. If the property is set in the graphic object, the property value overrides the value in the style sheet. If the object property is set to the default value, the object inherits the property value from the style sheet.

Objects and object instances inherit style properties from a style sheet and object types. Projects can contain multiple style sheets. Multiple style sheets allow you to switch between styles. For example, you could switch between a light interface and dark interface at runtime.

A property can be set at more than one level. For example, text color can be set in both the style sheet globally and on a custom

Label

object type. For a graphic object, property values are set in this order:

Instance
Object type of the instance
Style sheet for the object class
Global style sheet

If the value of a property is set to

Default

, the property inherits the value set at a higher level, in the order above. For example, if the value of

Text color

for the instance of a

Label

object is

Default

, the color value that is set is the first value found for the same property of type, object class, or global level, in that order.