Instruction manual
Table Of Contents
- ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
- Introduction
- Product Pics and Specs
- Connections, Cleaning, and Charging
- Touch Panel Basics
- Designing Touch Panel Pages
- Overview
- Activating the Edit button
- Setting the Device Base
- Setting the Device Used
- Creating a Page
- Creating a Button
- Button Properties
- Using TPDesign3 to Download Bitmaps, Icons, and Fonts
- Button Properties for External Pushbuttons
- Creating an IR Macro Button
- Creating a Joystick
- Creating a Bargraph
- Linking the New Page to the Main Page
- Exiting Edit Mode
- Programming
- Overview
- PC to ViewPoint Connections
- Programming the ViewPoint
- Programming Changes
- Serial Commands
- System Send_Commands
- Gray Scale and Programming Numbers
- Colors/Shades of Gray and Programming Numbers
- Font Styles and Programming Numbers
- Border Styles and Programming Numbers
- Shorthand Send Commands
- Color/Gray Scale Send_Commands
- Variable Text Send_Commands
- Shorthand Variable Text Commands
- Buttons String Commands
- Button IR Macro Commands
- Loading Infrared (IR) Files
- Upgrading the Firmware
- Contacting Sales and Technical Support
- Index

94 Programming ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
Buttons string commands
Command Description
"'$ID<group ID>'"
Set the WAV-PK group ID number on VPN panels.
group ID = 0 (Off) - 15
Example:
$ID 15
Sets the touch panel button group ID to 15.
"'$SC<device offset,
"'send command>'""
Send an internal Send_Command.
Example:
$SC 3,"'TEXT2-This is variable text on vari-
able text button 2'"
This sends the string to variable text button 2 on the panels’
device 3. Note that you cannot perform ASCII-number conver-
sions within the commands.
"'$SL'"
Activate sleep mode on the touch panel.
Example:
$SL
Activates sleep mode on the touch panel.
"'$ST<sleep timeout>'"
Set the idle time to activate sleep mode for a touch panel in
1-minute increments. When the touch panel’s input time
matches the sleep time, the panel goes to sleep.
sleep timeout = 1 (Off) - 120 minutes
Example:
$ST 5
Sets the touch panel’s sleep time to 5 minutes.
Button IR Macro Commands
Only one macro can run at a time and the panel becomes "locked" for the duration of
the macro. A message appears in the center of the touch panel signifying that a macro
is executing and does not disappear until the completion of the macro. In addition,
the touch panel must be pointed at the IR receivers during the entire macro execution
cycle. Otherwise, some transmitted IR signals from the touch panel may not reach the
receiver.
Figure 99
Buttons string commands