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

ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels Designing Touch Panel Pages 39
5. Press TEXT OFF to open the keyboard.
6. Enter Main Page in the keyboard. The text appears in the message box at the top
of the keyboard. If you exceed the space in the button, the touch panel edits the
message to fit in the space provided. Change the size of the button or reduce the
font size to compensate.
7. Press EXIT CHANGE to close the keyboard and return to the Text/Image page.
8. Press MAKE ON SAME AS OFF to set the text for both TEXT ON and TEXT OFF
states of the button.
9. Press EXIT SAVE CHANGE to close the Text/Image page and return to the Main
page.
10. Press EXIT in the Edit bar to exit the Edit TEXT/IMAGE mode.
Adding an icon to a button
Use the BUTTON option in the Edit bar to add icons to buttons, joysticks, bargraphs,
and video windows. Refer to the Using TPDesign3 to Download Bitmaps, Icons, and
Fonts subsection of the ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels – Program Reference instruction
manual for more information on importing icons into your touch panel.
1. Press EDIT to open the Edit bar.
2. Press BUTTON on the Edit bar to open the BUTTON menu.
Figure 51
Text/Image page
Note
The CHANGE FONT button
only appears when changing
the font of a function button
and does not apply to popup
pages.
Note
You can’t create or edit but-
tons with Unicode fonts within
the on-board editor. Any use
of the TEXT/IMAGE button to
alter or create Unicode font
supported buttons must be
done in TPDesign3 Touch
Panel D
e
sign Program.
Note
One-way ViewPoints do not
support bargraphs, sliders,
joysticks, VGA, or video.