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
Defining External Buttons
This feature is only available on touch panels that support external pushbuttons. If your touch panel
project doesn't support external pushbuttons, that feature will be inaccessible from the Panel drop-
down menu.
1. Select External Buttons to open the External Buttons dialog box (FIG. 21).
2. Select either the Show Button Properties or Show Programming Description option from the
When a Button is Clicked section of the dialog box.
! The When a Button is Clicked / Show Button Properties shows the Button Properties
dialog box for the selected external button.
! The When a Button is Clicked / Show Programming Description shows the Button
Programming Description dialog box for the selected external button.
3. Click on any of the displayed buttons to open either of the dialog boxes shown in FIG. 22.
The Button Programming Description dialog box is focused toward the panel programmer and
allows you to provide property identifiers/information relating to a specific button or to all
buttons of a specific type. This information is printed out with the Description option of
File > Print/Print Preview.
4. Click OK to accept any changes made to either of these dialog boxes and return to the External
Buttons dialog box.
5. Click the X located in the upper-right hand to exit from the External Buttons dialog box and
return to the main program.
FIG. 21 External Buttons dialog box
FIG. 22 External Button Programming Description and Button Properties dialog boxes
This dialog is only displayed if the panel type
supports external buttons. The number of buttons
displayed depends on the type of touch panel being
used for the project.