Instruction manual
Table Of Contents
- TPDesign3 Touch Panel Design Program (Version 3.16)
- Product Information
- Window and Toolbar Reference
- Designing Panel Pages
- Defining your Preferences
- Creating a New Project
- Setting Panel Properties
- Importing Bitmaps
- Importing Icons
- Creating/Editing an Icon
- Managing Fonts
- Creating a New Page
- Setting Page Properties
- Creating a Button
- Assigning Button Color Properties
- Selecting a Button Color
- Changing Button Borders
- Adding Button Text
- Adding a button type
- Selecting an Icon
- Selecting a Picture
- Changing Button Size
- Locking the Position of a Button
- Copying and Pasting Buttons
- Setting General Button Properties
- Setting Joystick Button Properties
- Setting Bargraph/Slider Control Button Properties
- Setting Brightness Button Properties
- Setting Date Button Properties
- Setting Time Button Properties
- Setting Keyboard Button Properties
- Setting Keypad Button Properties
- Setting Panel Setup Button Properties
- Setting Sensors Setup Button Properties on CP4 panels
- Setting Video Setup Button Properties
- Setting VGA Video Setup Button Properties
- Setting Video Window Button Properties
- Setting Video Joystick Button Properties
- Defining External Buttons
- Verifying Channel Assignments
- Creating a Popup Page
- Managing a Popup Page
- Run Simulation
- Downloading a Project to a Touch Panel
- Uploading a Project from a Touch Panel
- HTML Conversion and Server Download

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TPDesign3 Touch Panel Program
Table of Contents
Product Information .................................................................................................1
Features ............................................................................................................................ 1
Minimum System Requirements ....................................................................................... 1
Supported Platforms for HTML.......................................................................................... 2
Web Servers ............................................................................................................................ 2
Web Clients.............................................................................................................................. 2
Installing TPDesign3 ......................................................................................................... 2
Touch Panel Pages ........................................................................................................... 2
Window and Toolbar Reference ..............................................................................5
TPDesign3 Windows ......................................................................................................... 5
Main Menu......................................................................................................................... 6
Standard Toolbar............................................................................................................... 8
Main Toolbar ..................................................................................................................... 9
Button Borders Toolbar ................................................................................................... 10
Button Types Toolbar ...................................................................................................... 11
Fonts Toolbar .................................................................................................................. 12
Hotkey Shortcut Information............................................................................................ 13
Designing Panel Pages ..........................................................................................15
Defining your Preferences............................................................................................... 15
Creating a New Project ................................................................................................... 16
Setting Panel Properties.................................................................................................. 17
Importing Bitmaps ........................................................................................................... 18
Optimization of images........................................................................................................... 19
Importing Icons................................................................................................................ 19
Creating/Editing an Icon .................................................................................................. 20
Managing Fonts............................................................................................................... 20
Creating a New Page ...................................................................................................... 21
Setting Page Properties .................................................................................................. 21
Creating a Button ............................................................................................................ 22
Assigning Button Color Properties .................................................................................. 22
Selecting a Button Color.................................................................................................. 23
Changing Button Borders ................................................................................................ 23
Adding Button Text.......................................................................................................... 24
Adding a button type ....................................................................................................... 25
Selecting an Icon............................................................................................................. 25