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 91
System Send_Commands (Cont.)
Command Description
'%C4',<off-state border color> = See Figure 92 for color num-
bers
'%C5',<on-state text color> = See Figure 92 for color numbers
'%C6',<off-state text color> = See Figure 92 for color numbers
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'@BMF',255,'%T POWER |ON
'%B',4',%C1',72'"
Sets the text on button 255 to POWER ON (appears on two
lines), adds a triple-line border, and sets the On-state color to
White.
"'@BMP',<variable text
address>,'<bitmap>'"
Add a bitmap file to a button. The bitmap files are imported into
the TPDesign3 software program, and their numbers are as-
signed by the touch panel during the download process.
variable text address = 1 - 255
bitmap = Bitmap
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP, "'@BMP',85,'Bitmap1'"
Adds the Bitmap1 file to button 85.
"'@BOR',<variable text
address>,<border
style>"
Set the border style on a button.
variable text address = 1 - 255
border style = See Figure 94
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP, "'@BOR',65 ,11"
Sets the border style to Double shadow on button 65.
"'@ENA',<variable text
address>,<button state
on/off>"
Set a specific button's active state to On or Off.
variable text address = 1 - 255
1 = button Off
0 = button On
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'@ENA',128,1"
Sets the state for button 128 on.