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Macro Pages
Editing and Assembling Elementsī™
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RESULT
You can now use your template on the macro page.
Creating Templates From Groups or Selections
In the GUI Tree, you can create templates from a group or a selection. This is useful if you
want to use this specific combination of elements as one entity on your macro pages.
PROCEDURE
1. In the GUI Tree toolbar, click Create New Element and add a Text and a Knob element.
2. Select the knob element, and specify its bitmap in the Bitmap field in the Properties
section.
3. In the Resources Tree, create a Font element and make settings for the font in the
Properties section.
4. In the GUI Tree, select the text element, and select the created font in the Font field in
the Properties section.
5. Arrange the text and knob elements graphically on the canvas.
6. In the GUI Tree, select the text and knob elements, open the context menu, and select
Create Template <template name> from Selection.
7. As template name, enter Knob_with_Text.
8. Select the knob element and activate the Export Property button for the Value
parameter.
9. Do the same for the text element.
10. Select the template Knob_with_Text in the GUI Tree.
The Properties section now contains a Template Parameter section where the two
Value parameters are listed.
11. Enter the same name for both Value parameters.
12. When you are done setting up your template, click Switch Back to Macro Page/Parent
Template in the top right corner of the GUI Tree.
RESULT
When you use the template, it will show both controls in a single connection. They appear as
a combined template parameter on the parent. You can now connect the template and both
the Text and Knob values will react to parameter changes in HALion.