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 93
System Send_Commands (Cont.)
Command Description
"'@TXT',<variable text
address>,'<text>'"
Add 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,"'@TXT',2,'VCR|PLAY'"
Sets the VCR and PLAY text on variable button 2. The | char-
acter places VCR above PLAY on the button.
"'@UNI',<variable text
address>,'<text>'"
Add Unicode text on a button.
variable text address = 1 - 255
button text = Enter button text to appear on button
Example:
SEND_COMMAND TP,"'@UNI',2,'(Foreign Text)'"
Sets the Foreign Text on variable button 2. The | character
places VCR above PLAY on the button.
Buttons String Commands
Figure 99 lists string commands you can assign to buttons using the Touch Panel edi-
tor. You select the PROPERTIES option in the Edit bar, press the target button, and
enter the string command with the Touch Panel keyboard. Then, the string command
is sent to the control system when you press the button. Refer to the ViewPoint Wire-
less Touch Panels - Program Reference instruction manual for detailed editing informa-
tion.
Note
Characters for Middle Eastern
languages such as Arabic are
not supported within the Uni-
code fonts because they are
bi-directional. Buttons with
Unicode fonts can only be
created and edited using
TPDesign3 Touch Panel De-
sign Pr
o
gram.