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
Window and Toolbar Reference
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TPDesign3 Touch Panel Program
Window and Toolbar Reference
TPDesign3 Windows
The first elements available in the Workspace are the Main Menu bar, Toolbar buttons, and Status
bar. Double-clicking any area of the Status bar causes the feedback and page flip displays to change
to location and size displays. FIG. 3 shows the Status bar elements and identifies the data shown by
each.
The main elements of the TPDesign3 Main Menu are described below:
FIG. 3 TPDesign3 Main Menu and Status bar elements
TPD3 Main Elements
Main Menu bar Provides access to all the functions needed to work with files, objects, and
properties.
Toolbar buttons Contain the buttons you can select (when a file is opened) to perform various
TPDesign3 operations or functions.
Status bar Contains the following default elements:
• Cursor displays the X and Y mouse cursor coordiates on a page.
• CH# shows the channel number assigned to the selected object.
• Var Txt shows the variable text channel assigned to the selected object (if
enabled).
• FdBck shows the feedback (type) assigned to the selected object (if
enabled).
• Pg. Flip shows the object’s designated page flip (if enabled).
Double-clicking on the Status Bar opens a graphical elements row with these
additional fileds:
• Loc shows the location of the button on the page.
• Size shows the pixel height and width of the selected object.
• Rev shows the version of the active project file.
Main Menu bar
Toolbar buttons
Workspace
Status bar
elements