#4: State Color and Link Widget
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State Color Widget
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The state color widget can not only provide the respective state color.
It also can provide the **state string** on demand. Use a right-click in edit mode
on this widget to change the ``Properties`` of this widget

- *show-state-string*

Don't forget to save your changes in the project and this widget will show the
full state information for every update from now on!


.. figure:: images/state_color_field.png
   :align: center
   :alt: alternate text
   :figclass: align-center

   State color field presentation with state string and without.


Link Widgets
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The Karabo GUI has three different flavors of so-called ``link`` widgets.

* Scene Link (grey)
* Device Scene Link (blue)
* Web Link (pink)

All widgets can be distinguished by the cross color on the top left. Both, the **Scene Link** and
the **Web Link** can be created from the scene toolbar.
The **Device Scene Link** is more special. For this widget, a property named
``availableScenes`` has to be dragged from a device configuration (**Configurator**)
onto the scene. The widgets can then be mutated into the desired link widget.

.. NOTE::

    Generally, the widget configuration offers a background color, font, text etc.