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
42 Designing Touch Panel Pages ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
Using TPDesign3 to Download Bitmaps, Icons, and Fonts
TPDesign3 allows you to import bitmaps, icons, and fonts into your touch panel from
an existing touch panel program. Use the Download to Panel button to download a
project file.
To download bitmaps, icons and/or fonts from an existing TPDesign3 project file:
1. Launch the TPDesign3 software program and open a project file that contains the
desired bitmaps, icons, and fonts.
2. Select File from the menu bar to open the File menu.
3. In the File menu, click on Download to Panel, this opens the Download to Panel-
Actions tab shown in Figure 54. Use this tab to set the communication mode and
select which elements of the project file you want to download to the touch
panel.
4. In the What To Send area, select one or more of the available options (Bitmaps,
Icons, Fonts).
5. Select the mode of communication with the touch panel.
6. Click on the Comm Settings tab shown in Figure 55. Use this tab to set the com-
munications port, baud rate, and other communication settings.
Figure 54
Sample Download To Panel
dialog box: Actions tab