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

52 Designing Touch Panel Pages ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
Setting the variable text code
The variable text buttons that set the device and button channel codes for the touch
panels are shown in Figure 66.
1. Press DEV to open a keypad and set the device number.
2. Enter 1, 2, 3, or 4 in the keypad. The programming software uses device codes 1
through 4 to identify the touch panel. Refer to the ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
- Program Reference instruction manual for detailed information.
3. Press ENTER to store the device number in memory, close the keypad, and re-
turn to the Button Properties page.
4. Press CHAN to open a keypad and set the channel number.
5. Enter a channel value of 1 through 255 in the keypad. The programming soft-
ware uses the channel code number to identify the button and its operations.
6. Press ENTER to store the channel number into memory, close the keypad, and
return to the Button Properties page.
Setting the level code
The level buttons that set the device and number codes for the touch panels are
shown in Figure 67.
Note
One-way ViewPoint touch
panels do not support variable
text.
Figure 66
VAR TEXT code button
Note
The panel does not allow you
to enter a device number
greater than the DEVICE
USED without first displaying
a decision box. This box asks
you to decide whether you
accept the new selection or
default to the previous value.
Note
The channel codes for non-
active buttons are 0, and ac-
tive buttons is 1 through 255.
Figure 67
LEVEL code buttons