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 69
System Send_Commands
System Send_Commands (Figure 91) are stored in the Controller and direct the touch
panel to perform various operations.
System Send_Commands
Command Description
"'ABEEP'"
Output one panel beep even if the Beep value is set to 0 in the
Setup page.
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'ABEEP'"
Beeps the panel.
"'ADBEEP'"
Output a double-beep even if the double beep value is set to 0
in the Setup page.
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'ADBEEP'"
Double-beeps the panel.
"'AKEYB-<text string>'"
Open the touch panel keyboard and initialize the text string
entry. The keyboard string is set to null during power-up and is
stored until power-down.
text string = 0 - 59 characters
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'AKEYB-TOUCH HERE'"
Opens the touch panel keyboard with TOUCH HERE in the
display.
"'AKEYP-<number
string>'"
Open the touch panel keypad and initialize the number string
entry. The keypad string is set to null during power-up and is
stored until power-down.
number string = 0 - 9999
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'AKEYP-1988'"
Opens the touch panel keypad with 1988 in the display.
Figure 91
System Send_Commands