Custom "Widget" Technique Question

[stephen barncard]

If you haven't seen  Scott Rossi's work, you should. He's created some
amazing controls.
Buy or use for inspiration.

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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
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2009/9/12 Len Morgan <len-morgan at crcom.net>

> 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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