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SACO Display Director

Key Concepts

These concepts span multiple tabs and views, so they’re explained here once rather than repeated on every panel that uses them.

Zone & V-Stream Channel

In the Pixel Layout, you can create Zones by enabling the “Auto-Zoning” option and using the “Draw Cable” command, or manually:

  1. Click the Create Zone command from the toolbar.

A V-Stream Channel is a virtual depiction of a Zone in the Wiring Layout that can only be created from existing Zones in the Pixel Layout.

Here are the rules between V-Stream Channel and Zone:

  • Each V-Stream Channel corresponds to a Zone with the same name in both layouts.
  • The Zone list indicates if a Zone is used as a V-Stream Channel in the Wiring Layout by showing a lock icon.
  • A Zone can only be used as a V-Stream Channel once.
  • When using the “Generate Logic Connection” command, a Zone without assigned tiles will not be generated as a V-Stream Channel.
  • Because a V-Stream Channel is a reference to its Zone, its property panel in the Wiring Layout is a read-only mirror of that Zone’s Pixel Layout properties: Raster Position, Area in Pixels, and the Display it’s assigned to.

SubTypes

  • A component (e.g., A5) has a default SubType of 0. Any configured version of that component (e.g., A5-1) is assigned a unique SubType between 1 and 254, distinct from 0. If multiple versions of a component exist (e.g., A5-1, A5-2), each receives its own unique SubType (1–254), excluding the default 0.
  • Tiles with the same component type but different configurations cannot share a SubType. Run a diagnostic to check for conflicts.
  • Turn on “Show SubType” in the Pixel Layout to check the SubTypes of all tiles at a glance.