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
5. Connect an AXlink cable from the Central Controller to the touch panel's rear AXlink
connector.
6. Set the touch panel to the Main page. Verify that the Baud Rate (in the Protected Setup page on
the panel) is set to the same communication speed set in the Comm Settings tab.
7. Click Connect from the Mode section of the Actions tab. The program retrieves all available
touch panels connected to the system.
8. Select the touch panel you want to download the project to and click Begin. The touch panel
begins to download the information from the program. The status of the download is shown at
the bottom of the Actions tab.
9. Click Close when done downloading.
Using TPDesign3 to Download Design XPress 1.1 - Generated Panel Pages
You can use either TPDesign3 or NetLinx Studio to download Design XPress 1.1 - generated touch
panel files to the panels. If you are using TPDesign3, verify that all Color Optimization options
are turned off. There are no optimization issues when downloading via NetLinx Studio.
There are two places in TPDesign3 where bitmap optimization can be selected: The Bitmap
Manager, and the Download to Panel dialogs.
1. In the Bitmap Manager dialog (Panel > Bitmap Manager), make sure that you do not click
the Optimize button at any time that the project is open. If by mistake you optimize the
bitmaps in your project, you must close the TPD project without saving any changes, and re-
open.
2. In the Download to Panel dialog (Comm Settings tab), verify that Optimize Bitmap Colors is
not selected. This dialog is accessible via the File menu.
Uploading a Project from a Touch Panel
1. Click the Upload From Panel icon from either the Standard toolbar or File drop-down menu.
2. Click the Comm Settings tab and configure the communication parameters between the touch
panel and TPDesign3 program. Baud Rates range from 110 to 115200 KB. Default
communication is set at 38.4K for the Baud Rate.
3. Choose from a listing of all locally available COM ports (COM1 through COM32).
4. Connect an RS-232 cable from the rear of the computer to the Central Controller.
5. Connect an AXlink cable from the Central Controller to the touch panel's rear AXlink
connector.
6. Set the touch panel to the Main page. Verify that the Baud Rate (in the Protected Setup page on
the panel) is set to the same communication speed set in the Comm Settings tab.
7. Click Connect from the Mode section of the Actions tab. The program retrieves all available
touch panels connected to the system.
8. Select the touch panel you want to upload the project from and click Begin. The touch panel
begins to upload the information from the panel. The status of the upload is shown at the
bottom of the Actions tab.
9. Click Close when done uploading the panel file.