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
Designing Panel Pages
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TPDesign3 Touch Panel Program
4. Enter a value for the Channel Code Device (the panel's AXlink base address) and Channel, or
select Channel-Assign. To use a device value higher than 1, set the devices used in the Panel
properties to a value higher than 1.
5. Under Variable Text address, assign a Device, Channel, or click VarText-Assign.
6. In the Page Flip section, select the choice for the type of Page Flip assigned to the selected
button.
7. Select the destination for the page flip from the Destination drop-down list of available pages.
8. Select a feedback option from the Feedback drop-down list. Feedback is a change in the button
display when the button is pressed.
9. Click the Password Protected checkbox. This invokes a popup password box requiring a
password to get any button action (page flip, channel code, etc.) to occur.
10. In the String Output text field, enter the string output to be sent to the AMX Central Controller
(if required). The following table lists strings and their features.
11. Click OK to accept the changes.
FIG. 14 Button Properties dialog box
Window identifies button’s
location on the page
Allows you to Hide or Show
the button location window
Axcess software uses the channel code number to identify the button and its
operation.
Strings and their Features
$SL In the wireless panels, entering this string causes the panel to go into sleep mode.
Example:
$SL 10
Entering this string into the String Output field causes the panel screen to go into sleep mode after
10 seconds.
$ID In the two-way wireless WAVE interfaces, entering a number after this string redefines the Group ID
to the number entered.
$VI In wired panels with video, entering this string sets the video interlace. A zero after the string sets a
non-interlaced signal. A one sets an interlaced signal.
Interlaced video is a progressive scan that paints every other line of the screen with the first pass
and the remaining lines on the second pass. Non-interlaced is an every-line scan that refreshes
every line in sequence from the top down (preventing flickering).