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 Programming 67
Serial Commands
Figure 90 lists the Serial Commands you can use with the ViewPoint Touch Panels.
These commands are case insensitive.
Serial Commands
Command Description
"?PAR"
Return panel parameters to the PC terminal These include:
Firmware version, Device number, Mouse type,
Output resolu
tion, Number of devices, cursor
enable, Brightness, and Contrast.
Example:
"?PAR"
Requests the information.
"'CALIBRATE'"
Start touch panel calibration.
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'CALIBRATE'"
Starts the calibration sequence mode on the touch panel.
"CHECK CAL"
Enter the calibration test mode.
Example:
"CHECK CAL"
Starts the calibration check mode on the touch panel.
"ECHO ON"
Turn On character echo.
Example:
"ECHO ON"
The character echo is sent back to the computer.
"ECHO OFF"
Turn Off character echo.
Example:
"ECHO OFF"
The character echo is not sent back to the computer.
Figure 90
Serial Commands