Custom Hint Values

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Simulator can be configured to show a short hint string when the mouse is hovered over objects on the oneline diagrams. This hint string will appear in a yellow box as shown below.

This option must be set first by opening the Simulator Options dialog and then going to the Oneline category and finally checking the Show Oneline Hints . The user may then customize what text and values appear in the hint by choosing Custom Hint Values on the General Options ribbon group of the Options ribbon tab. These General Options are also available on the Oneline ribbon tab.

 

This brings up a dialog on which customizations are made for each type of display object that can show a hint.

Choose the type of object on the left side of the dialog. With this display object chosen, choose which fields of this dialog you would like to include as part of the custom hint. Click the Add, Remove, or Modify buttons to add, remove, or modify a field to the hint. Click the Up and Down buttons to change the order in which the fields appear. On the dialog that appears after clicking Add or Modify, you may customize the field with a prefix, modify the digits and decimal points, and specify whether to show the units as a suffix. The Example column shows an example of what text will appear for the hint.

The Object Identifier is also available that will appear as the first line of the hint if chosen. To remove this identifier, click the Remove ID button. When the object identifier is not being shown the Remove ID button caption will change to Add ID. Click the Add ID button to add the object identifier back to the hint. You may specify the format of the object identifier by setting the Show Object Identifier with the following Identifier Type option appropriately.

The Delay before showing hints (ms) is to set the milliseconds time that the hint will show up after you hover over an object and the Delay before hiding hints (ms) is the milliseconds time before the hints are going to be hide. The Maximum hint width (pixels) is the maximum pixels width that the yellow box of the hint will have.

By selecting the Set Hint Font a dialog will open to select the font type, font style and size of the text in the hint box. Selecting Set Font to Window Default will set the text fonts to the Window defaults values.

The hint customizations are stored with the PowerWorld Binary file (PWB) and in the Windows Registry. The customizations affect all oneline diagrams (including the Bus View and Substation View). The customizations may also be stored in an Auxiliary File for use in moving the customizations between computers and cases. Click the Save All to Aux File button to save all these customizations to an Auxiliary File or click the Load All From Aux File to load all the custom hints from an Auxiliary File.