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

ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels Programming 89
Variable text Send_Commands (Cont.)
Command Description
"'ICON,<variable text
address>-<border
style>'"
Change the border style of a specific button.
variable text address = 1 - 255
border style = See Figure 94
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'ICON,25-6'"
Changes the variable text button 25 border style to double-
rounded.
"'!T',<variable text
address>,'<new button
text>'"
Shorthand version of 'TEXT' command.
variable text address = 1 - 255
new button text = 1 - 60 characters
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'!T',1,'VCR PLAY'"
Changes the variable text button one title to VCR PLAY.
"'TEXT,<variable text
address>-<new button
text>'"
Enter text on a button. Use the | character to display text on
multiple lines.
variable text address = 1 - 255
button text = Enter button text to appear on button
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'TEXT2-VCR|PLAY'"
Sets the VCR and PLAY text on variable button 2. The | char-
acter places VCR above PLAY on the button.