Slider
The Slider displays a slide bar which represents a numeric value.
When the form control is applied the name entered will display as the caption for the form control. This can be changed by selecting the Caption property
Properties
Appearance
- Background Color
Specifies the color of the control's background.
- Input Opacity (Disabled)
Specifies the opacity of the control's input area when the control is disabled, between 0 and 100.
- Input Spacing
Specifies the spacing between inputs in the control.
- Inset Track
Specifies whether the Track is inset from the edge of the Control. True to align the Thumb midpoint with the Track ends, or False to extend the Track to the Control's boundary.
- Opacity
Specifies the opacity of the control.
Requires a value between 0 (not visible) and 100 (fully visible).
- Orientation
The display orientation of the control.
- Reverse Direction
Reverses the direction of the slider control
- Show Limits
Specifies whether to show the minimum and maximum value limits on the control.
- Thumb Background Color
Specifies the background color of the slider's thumb.
- Thumb Background Color (Disabled)
Specifies the background color of the slider's thumb when the control is disabled.
- Thumb Background Color (Hover)
Specifies the background color of the slider's thumb when in a hovered state.
- Thumb Background Color (Pressed)
Specifies the background color of the slider' s thumb when in a pressed state.
- Thumb Height
Specifies the height of the Slider's Thumb.
- Thumb Margin
Specifies the margin of the Thumb from the edge of the Control. This can be used to make the Thumb appear inside of the Track.
- Thumb Padding
Specifies the padding of the Slider's Thumb.
- Thumb Width
Specifies the width of the Slider's Thumb.
- Track Color
Specifies the color of the slider's track.
- Track Color (Fill)
Specifies the color of the filled part of the slider's track.
- Track Size
Specifies the size of the slider's track.
Appearance - Border
Appearance - Picture
- Thumb Image
An absolute path, or path relative to the project file, of an image which will replace the slider's
default thumb.
- Thumb Image Size Mode
Controls how the image is sized within the Slider's Thumb.
Appearance - Text
Behavior
- Default Value
Controls the default value of the control. If the default value is based on a rule and the value
changes, then the value of the control will be changed to be the new default value.
- Enabled
Controls whether the control is enabled (if the result is TRUE) or disabled (if the result is
anything other than TRUE, e.g. FALSE).
- Error Result
Determines whether the value of the control is in error. The result of this rule is a string
containing the error message if the value is in error, otherwise a blank string or the number zero.
- Increment
A decimal quantity by which the value is incremented and decremented,
- Maximum
The maximum value that can be selected on the control.
- Minimum
The minimum value that can be selected on the control.
- Tab Index
Configures the position of the control in the form tab order.
- Text
Specifies the text shown in the control.
The text displayed in this property can have formatting tags applied to decorate parts of the text string, see Formatting the Displayed Text below for more information.
- Track Fill Start Value
Specifies the value on the Slider track where the Track Fill starts from. If no value is specified, the lowest value of the Slider's range is used.
- Value
Controls the numeric value of the control
- Value (Override Rule)
Controls the numeric value of the control
- Visible
Determines whether the control is visible (TRUE) or hidden (FALSE).
Events
General
- (Metadata)
Optional text which can be used to provide information belonging to or about a control. For example,
a list of CSS classes which can be parsed and applied to the control using the Integration Theme in
DriveWorks Live. This doesn't affect the control's behavior.
- (Name)
The name of the control
- (Tag)
Optional text which can be used to describe the control, but which doesn't affect the control's
behavior.
- Tooltip Duration
Controls the duration, in seconds, for which the tooltip will remain visible. Values of 0 and below
indicate an infinite duration.
- Tooltip Text
Specifies the text to display in a tooltip when hovering over the control.
The text displayed in this property can have formatting tags applied to decorate parts of the text string, see Formatting the Displayed Text below for more information.
Layout
- Height
Controls the height of the control.
- Left
Controls the left position of the control.
- Top
Controls the top position of the control.
- Width
Controls the width of the control.
Formatting the Displayed Text
Formatting Text
The text displayed in the Text and Tooltip Text property support the use of formatting tags to format parts of the text string.
The supported tags are:
- Bold
- Italic
- Underline
- Color
- Url (not supported for Tooltip Text)
See How To: Format Text for more information.

The slider displays a slide bar which represents a numeric
value.