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Many elements in Open MCT need to articulate a dynamic status; Open MCT provides the following styles and conventions to handle this:
- Limits: when telemetry values exceed minimum or maximum values, they can be violating limits. Limit styles include both color and iconography; color is used to indicate severity while icons are used to indicate direction, upper or lower.
- - Status: Open MCT also provides a number or built-in Status styles allowing telemetry or other displayed information to be visually classified.
- - Synchronization: When the system is displaying real-time data, it is very important that displays clearly indicate when they are not doing so. Open MCT provides a style for this.
+ - Status: Open MCT also provides a number or built-in Status styles allowing telemetry or other displayed information to be visually classified by type. Common uses for these classes are to visually denote event records.
+ - Synchronization: When the system is displaying real-time data, it is very important that displays clearly indicate when they are not doing so, such as when a plot if frozen while panning or zooming. Open MCT provides a style for this.