Business Graphic Objects

Now that your BGO has been created, you can use it in a panel to animate it. You will link it to a slider prototype, so that when you move the slider, it updates the SuperGauge prototype.

Return to PrStudio and select the File - New - Prototype Instances (2D) command. It will open a new window in the workspace. Now drag and drop your new prototype from the palette window into this window. The SuperGauge will appear and behave as a single object. You will now use a slider prototype to provide data to the gauge. In the palette window, go to the "output" prototype category, and drag and drop the slider into the panel window.

Now you can connect these two objects. Click on the "Group Connection" button of the PrStudio vertical toolbar 
This command lets you to connect two prototypes by drawing a link between them. Create a link from the slider to the SuperGauge. This operation pops up the connection window:
 
This window shows the connectable values in two columns. The slider has only 1 output value, and your SuperGauge has only 1 value (an input value).

Select both values and click "OK". You should now see a green arrow showing the connection like this:
 

That's it. Let's test this panel by pressing the "Test" button of PrStudio  or the "Active" button of the vertical toolbar 
Play with the slider, moving it left or right, and you will see the gauge immediately updated accordingly.

Conclusion
You have seen here how easy it is to build a panel using prototypes connected together. This is very useful for testing the prototype behaviors within the editor. But when you build real applications, the prototypes are supposed to be fed by external data coming from the application. For example, in a supervision application, a data-acquisition system will provide data to the application, and this data will update the prototypes for graphical display. You will see how to do this in the next step.