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

80 Programming ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
Shorthand Send_Commands (Cont.)
Command Description
"'@CTN'
,<variable text
address>,<color_
number>"
Set the ON feedback text color to the specified color only if the
specified background color is not the same as the current
color.
variable text address = 1 - 255
color number = see Figure 92
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'@CTN’,1,72"
Sets the ON feedback text color to White for variable text but-
ton 1.
"'@IDF'"
Query the touch panel to return a string with the MS-DOS file-
name of the touch panel.
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'@IDF'"
The touch panel returns its MS-DOS file name in a string.
"'@IDP'"
Query the touch panel to return a string with the TPDesign3
project name.
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'@IDP'"
The touch panel returns a string that contains its TPDesign3
project name.
"'@ILEV <joystick axis
to invert'"
Invert the joystick axis.
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'@ILEV 3'"
Invert the joystick axis to move the origin to another corner.
• Normal G3 Joystick (origin: top left) 0
• Invert Horizontal Axis (origin: top right) 1
• Invert Vertical Axis (origin: bottom left) 2
• Invert Both Axes (origin: bottom right) 3