Customizing your Dash
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5. Choose to use this image as your night image or browse for your night image.
6. If you want to maintain the aspect ratio of your image within the frame size, check the
'Resize to frame aspect ratio' box. The frame size is determined by either the Gauge Size
'Percent', 'Width and 'Height', or your dash size if the image is a backdrop image.
7. If you want this image to be your custom dash backdrop, check the 'Set as backdrop
image' box. If the 'Resize to the frame aspect ratio' option is checked, the image will be
resized to fit within your dash. If the image is not set to be resized, it will be cropped to fit
within your dash.
8. For a non-backdrop image, borders are recommended because the image is not shown
while dragging or zooming. Borders are automatically set for non-backdrop images.
9. You can resize the image to be the size you want. Use Gauge Size 'Percent' to keep the
aspect ratio or use 'Width' and 'Height' to size the image manually. To see the maximum
width and height for the image's aspect ratio, change the 'Percent' to a very large value
(ie. 1000) and then the 'Percent', 'Width', and 'Height' will change to the maximum values
that will fit in the dash page.
10. A Backdrop image is locked (can't be moved) and is placed behind all other gauges so that
the other gauges can be seen and moved within the backdrop image.
11. Non-backdrop images are located in the z-order according to their placement in the
Customize Dash 'Add or Remove Text Gauges' list (see Tip 2 Z-Order Explained). You can
move the non-backdrop images so that other gauges appear either in front or behind the
image. To place a gauge in front of the image (ie. the gauge on top of the image), move
the gauge such that it's after the image in the list. If you want the gauge to be behind the
image (ie. the image on top of the gauge), move the gauge such that it's before the image
in the list. Note that Graphic gauges are always behind Text gauges except for Backdrop
and Box gauges. If you want a non-backdrop image to be behind a Graphic gauge, check
the 'Show behind all other gauges' box.
Customizing Icon Gauges
You can customize your dash icon gauges with your own image files. This allows you to change
the style and color of the icons to match your custom dash in day and night mode.
There are 10 Icon gauges, 8 standard icons and 2 alert icons. The standard icons have a day
image and a night image. The alert icons have a day and night image for each alert type (NA,
Good, Warning, Danger). The default dash icons can be download from this link - https://bluefire-
llc.com/files/Dash%20Icons.zip.
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