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
40 Designing Touch Panel Pages ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
3. Press TEXT/IMAGE to add text to the button. The TEXT/IMAGE operation bar
appears.
4. Press the target button to open the Text/Image page.
5. Press ICON OFF to set the icon for the OFF state of the selected button. This
opens the ICONS menu (Figure 52), that contains a list of all the icons currently
available to the project.
6. Select an icon from the menu. This sets the icon for the selected button’s Off state.
7. On the Text/Image page, press MAKE ON SAME AS OFF to set the icon for both
On and Off states of the button.
8. Press EXIT SAVE CHANGE to set the button text and close the Text/Image page
and return to the NEW page.
9. Press EXIT in the Edit bar to exit the Edit Text/Image mode and close the Edit
bar.
Adding a bitmap to a button
Use the BUTTON option in the Edit bar to add bitmaps to buttons, joysticks, bar-
graphs, and video windows. Refer to the Using TPDesign3 to Download Bitmaps, Icons,
and Fonts subsection of the ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels – Program Reference in-
struction manual for more information on importing bitmaps 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 52
ICONS menu example
Note
One-way ViewPoints do not
support bargraphs, sliders,
joysticks, VGA, or video.