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

76 Programming ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
Colors/Shades of Gray and Programming Numbers
The colors and their programming numbers are listed in Figure 92, and can be used
to set the colors on buttons, sliders, gauges, and pages. The lowest color number
represents the lightest color-specific display, and the highest number represents the
darkest display. For example, the color number 0 is light red, and 5 is dark red.
Colors and programming numbers
Color No. Color No.
Red 0 - 5 Purple 54 - 59
Orange 6 - 11 Magenta 60 - 65
Yellow 12 - 17 Pink 66 - 71
Lime 18 - 23 White 72 - 77
Green 24 - 29 Gray 78 - 83
Aqua 30 - 35 More Gray 84 - 86
Cyan 36 - 41 Black 87
Royal 42 - 47 Transparent 255
Blue 48 - 53
Font Styles and Programming Numbers
Figure 93 lists the font styles and their numbers you can use to program the text fonts
on buttons, sliders, gauges, and pages. The programming numbers are assigned con-
secutively when they are downloaded to the touch panel. For more information on
variable fonts, see the Setting the variable text code subsection.
Font styles and programming numbers
No. Font styles No. Font styles
1 Extra small 5 Extra large
2 Small 6 Hollow medium
3 Medium 8 Hollow extra large
4 Large 32-255 Variable fonts
Border Styles and Programming Numbers
Figure 94 lists border styles and their numbers you can use to program borders on
buttons, sliders, and gauges.
Figure 92
Colors and programming
numbers
Figure 93
Font styles and programming
numbers
Note
You must import variable text
fonts into a TPDesign3 project
file, and download the project
file containing the fonts to the
Touch Panel. The variable
fonts are assigned program-
ming numbers by the Touch
Panel during the download
process.