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

2 Introduction ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
Features
Features for the ViewPoint touch panels include:
• All panels have 6-inch diagonal (153.9 mm), 320 x 240 (HV) pixel screens
• VPN-CP has a 256 color passive-matrix LCD screen
• VPN-GS has a 16-shade grayscale LCD screen
• Four external programmable push buttons
• Programmable firmware via programming port connection
• Programming port for uploading/downloading touch panel data
• Panel programming, pages, and drawings are uploaded and downloaded
using TPDesign (Windows
®
) 16-bit or TPDesign3 (Windows) 32-bit touch
panel design programs
• One-way RF or IR transmission (VPT-CP/VPT-GS only)
• Two-way digital spread spectrum RF or one-way OM (other manufacturer’s)
IR signaling (VPN-CP/VPN-GS only)
• Onboard battery-charging circuitry
• Supports Unicode
®
fonts for European and Far-Eastern character sets (no
vertical or bi-directional fonts)
• Hand-held or desktop usage
• Battery life of 6 continuous hours with full back-lighting (VPT-CP/VPT-GS)
• Battery life of 4 continuous hours (VPN-CP/VPN-GS)
Related Instruction Manuals
These instruction manuals contain additional information that relates to the View-
Point touch panels.
• AXCESS Programming Language
• AXR-NWS NetWave Server
• Color Passive-Matrix LCD Mini-Touch Panel (Firmware version G3 or
higher)
• TPDesign3 Touch Panel Program (Version 3.13 or higher)
• WAVE 2-Way Wireless Accessories and Adapters for Touch Panels
Note
TPDesign3 is used to convert
G2 or lower panel pages into
G3 firmware compatible
pages.
Note
Buttons with Unicode fonts
can only be created and ed-
ited within TPDesign3. Refer
to the TPDesign3 Touch
Panel Program (Version 3.13
or higher) instruction manual
for detailed information. Char-
acters for Middle Eastern lan-
guages such as Arabic are
not supported within the Uni-
code fonts because they are
bi-directional. Buttons with
Unicode fonts can only be
created and edited using the
TPDesign3 Touch Panel De-
sign Pr
o
gram.