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
Selecting a Picture .......................................................................................................... 26
Image Positioning................................................................................................................... 26
Changing Button Size ..................................................................................................... 27
Using the size to picture feature............................................................................................. 27
Locking the Position of a Button...................................................................................... 28
Copying and Pasting Buttons.......................................................................................... 28
Setting General Button Properties .................................................................................. 28
Creating a Page Flip .............................................................................................................. 30
Setting Joystick Button Properties .................................................................................. 30
Setting Bargraph/Slider Control Button Properties.......................................................... 31
Setting Brightness Button Properties .............................................................................. 32
Setting Date Button Properties........................................................................................ 32
Setting Time Button Properties ....................................................................................... 32
Setting Keyboard Button Properties................................................................................ 33
Setting Keypad Button Properties ................................................................................... 33
Setting Panel Setup Button Properties............................................................................ 33
Setting Sensors Setup Button Properties on CP4 panels............................................... 33
Setting Video Setup Button Properties............................................................................ 34
Setting VGA Video Setup Button Properties................................................................... 34
Setting Video Window Button Properties ........................................................................ 34
Setting Video Joystick Button Properties ........................................................................ 35
Defining External Buttons................................................................................................ 36
Verifying Channel Assignments ...................................................................................... 37
Creating a Popup Page................................................................................................... 37
Managing a Popup Page................................................................................................. 38
Run Simulation................................................................................................................ 38
Downloading a Project to a Touch Panel........................................................................ 38
Using TPDesign3 to Download Design XPress 1.1 - Generated Panel Pages...................... 39
Uploading a Project from a Touch Panel ........................................................................ 39
HTML Conversion and Server Download........................................................................ 40
Downloading to a NetLinx Master on a LAN .......................................................................... 41