Properties Information window

The Properties Information window displays object Property names for a selected object on the Dataflow window. Under a licensed Automation module the Property names may be used (via the Properties Action) in the Console window or with automation scripts.

Some Property names can be used within an object name when you specify a dynamic name for a supported Echoview object. Suitable property names are those that have numeric or text value.

To view the Properties Information window, on the View menu, select Properties Information.

To use the Properties Information window, on the Dataflow window select a dataflow object. The Properties Information window displays available Property names for a selected object.

Properties Information is displayed under Conmmand interface object types and associated Properties dialog box based page types. Some Property names may appear under the Unspecified category.

Click on a property name and on the right-click (Shortcut) menu, select Copy. Then Paste into a Console commmand line, Dynamic name section of the Variable Properties dialog box or script. The syntax for a dynamic property within Dynamic name text is to enclose the dynamic property name in braces.

Object type	Description
EV File	EV File Properties dialog box.
Platform	Platform Properties dialog box.
Transducer	Transducer Properties dialog box.
Variable Variable operator	Variable Properties dialog box for common variable properties settings. Virtual Variable Properties dialog box pages specfic to an operator.
Line operator	Line Properties dialog box for raw, editable and virtual lines. Extract bottom feature variable. Extract transmission characteristics variable.
Surface	(New) Surface Properties dialog box for detected or imported surfaces.
Virtual surface Surface operator	Virtual Surface Properties dialog box for common surface properties. Virtual Surface Properties dialog box pages specific to an operator.
Exporter Exporter operator	Exporter Properties dialog box for common variable properties. Exporter Properties dialog box for pages specific to an exporter type.

Export

On the Properties Information window, use the right-click menu, and select Export to export all command interface Property names to a CSV file named Properties.csv.

There is a row for each Property name with associated information arranged according to the colummn header items in the first header row:

• Object type
• Page/Operator Name
• Property Name
• Units
• Minimum
• Maximum
• Value Options
• Default
• Access

See also

COM and the Console