# Creating a global colour scheme

You can create a global colour scheme for your visualisation. A global colour scheme allows you to control the colours of widgets or the background globally.

1. Start editing the real-time application.
2. In the menu bar, click Visualisation.
3. Click Visualisation settings.
4. In the Visualisation settings dialogue, assign colours to Primary colour, Secondary colour and Text.
5. Click OK.
6. Use the colour scheme for all widgets, whose colours you want to control globally.
7. Click on a widget whose colours you want to edit.
8. In the Properties, change the widget's colours to Primary colour, Secondary colour or Text.
9. You can now change the colours globally.
10. Click Visualisation settings.
11. In the Visualisation settings dialogue, assign new colours to Primary colour, Secondary colour and Text.
12. Click OK.

1. The colours of all widgets that use the colour scheme are changed immediately.