<p>The invention relates to enhancements to a strategy object editor for creating and modifying control strategies for process control systems (both distributed and discrete). The improvements include: supporting a set of graphical depictions for individual control object (modified by an appearance object editor), drag and drop connections for declarations that connect control strategies to other control strategies, GUI-based designation of object execution order, automatically applied line styles based upon connection data type, and automatic modification of elements within an appearance object to accommodate a moved attribute.</p>
