Control Center

Hiding / Showing

The Control Center is the "player" application that runs the Profile and displays the extra windows on top of or next to your game windows. For this to work, you will generally run your game in a Windowed mode and run Helios Control Center to draw the additional views on another monitor, or hopefully on a Touchscreen.

Once the profile is started, you can use the "Hide" button on Control Center to hide the control interface itself and keep showing the views created in your profile. You can also enable Hide on Profile Start in the Control Center preferences (called "Prefs" in the UI.) With this option set, Control Center will always go hide if you successfully start a profile.

To get your Control Center view back to either change things, run another profile, or shut down, you have some options:

1. You can Alt-Tab to the Helios Control Center application and let Windows bring it back up for you

2. You can add controls in your Profile to bring up Control Center. In Profile Editor, you can create a Binding to an Output on the Interface called Profile. This extremely poorly named interface is like an interface to Helios itself to make it do stuff like show or hide the Control Center, shut down, or even run another application (if you are very brave.)

Settings

Control Center reads some settings that are set by Profile Editor. However, these settings are simply written to an XML file and there is no mechanism for Control Center to find out that settings have changed. Even if Control Center did re-read the settings file, the design of Helios precludes the affected components finding out that their settings are changed. Therefore, Control Center must always be started after configuration in Profile Editor is completed.