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

70 Programming ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
System Send_Commands (Cont.)
Command Description
"'AKEYR'"
Close the touch panel keyboard or keypad opened with the
'AKEYB', 'AKEYP', or 'PKEYP' commands.
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'AKEYR'"
Closes the keyboard or keypad opened using the 'AKEYB',
'
AKEYP', or 'PKEYP' commands.
"'BEEP'"
Output one beep. The Beep button in the Protected Setup
page must be set from 1 through 10 for this command.
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'BEEP'"
Beeps the panel if the Beep button is not set to 0.
"'BRIT-<level>'"
Adjust brightness of display. The brightness range is 1 (mini-
mum) to 5 (maximum).
level = 1 - 5
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'BRIT-5'"
Sets to highest brightness level.
"'CONT-<level>'"
Adjust brightness of display. The brightness range is 1 (mini-
mum) to 12 (maximum).
level = 1 - 12
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'CONT-12'"
Sets to highest brightness level.
"'CLOCK <mm-dd-yy>
<hh:mm:ss>'"
Set the time and date.
mm = 01 - 12, dd = 01 - 31, yy = 00 - 99
hh = 00 - 23, mm = 00 - 59, ss = 00 - 59
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'CLOCK 02-08-98 19:16:00'
Sets the touch panel's date to February 8, 1998, and time to
7:16 p.m.