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
18 Touch Panel Basics ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
Touch Panel Pages
You can download objects like buttons and drawings to a touch panel page. The
number of objects depends on the type and quantity of external devices you want to
control with the touch panel and Controller. When you create multiple pages, you
must link them with buttons. Figure 14 shows how five touch panel pages are linked
to the Main page. Note that each page contains one button that goes to the next page,
and one that goes to the previous page.
Standard Buttons
Standard buttons types are rectangles, rectangle variations, and other geometric
shapes that you can create with the touch panel editor. Buttons are set with attrib-
utes, which means there is feedback for the Controller when you touch the button.
General Buttons
General buttons are part of the touch panel program and cannot be changed. You use
general buttons to specify panel communication parameters and create or revise
pages. Button examples include selection buttons, information buttons, adjustment
buttons, and operation bars. Each type of General button is described in the following
paragraphs.
Figure 14
Touch Panel pages with
linked buttons
Main Page
Setup
Page
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
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age 2
Main
Page 3
Page 1
Page 4
Page 2
Page 5
Page 3
Main
Page 4
Page 1