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

84 Programming ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
Color/Gray Scale Send_Commands
Use the color Send_Commands (Figure 96) to set the colors for text, buttons, and
pages. Use the same command for setting gray scale values only change the color
number value to reflect the gray scale (72-86) value.
Color Send_Commands
Command Description
"'CALL<variable text
address>-<data>'"
Set the colors for a variable text button. See Figure 92 for color
numbers.
variable text address = 1 - 255
data = 6 color number series for:
FILL COLOR ON
FILL COLOR OFF
BORDER COLOR ON
BORDER COLOR OFF
TEXT COLOR ON
TEXT COLOR OFF
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'CALL1-1 3 0 0 72 74'"
Sets variable text button 1 to:
FILL COLOR ON = Red one shade from brightest
FILL COLOR OFF = Red three shades from brightest
BORDER COLOR ON = Red brightest
BORDER COLOR OFF = Red brightest
TEXT COLOR ON = White brightest
TEXT COLOR OFF = White two shades from brightest
Figure 96
Color Send_Commands
Note
You must use the variable text
assignments to change button
colors.