Specifications

Intelligent Building Series C-Touch Programming Reference

Note that in all these layouts there are three possible locations for navigation

buttons, the last one being lower right. This is typically to be used to return

control to an intermediate level page such as the Images and Controls page. As

a rule a project should not contain more than three “levels” of pages. By

providing only three positions for return buttons this rule is enforced by the page

layout.

Regardless of which page the user is looking at, the buttons have the same

meaning: Lower Right returns to the next page up, Lower Middle refers to the

one above that and Lower Left returns to the topmost page. This rule is not

enforced in any way (as perusal of the sample projects attest) but represents

good design practice.

The last page illustrated here is the Schedules and Scenes page. The buttons

on this page act to control schedules and scenes, which are described in the

next section. The “Disarm Schedules” button sets a Group Address in the

Control Application and all schedules (except KitchenWeekdayDinnerON &

KitchenWeekdayDinnerOFF) are triggered by this Group Address. This button

provides a convenient way to arm or disarm schedules throughout the project.

The buttons which are linked to scenes use the “Key Function” option for the

buttons. (This function is accessed by double clicking the button, the C-Bus tab

and the Key Function sub-tab and choosing the scene button).

In an actual project several pages could be required to describe the whole

project. The layout chosen here supports up to four buttons per page and if the

restriction on three levels of hierarchy is observed the total number of pages in

such a project would be theoretically 21 pages. If a layout with eight buttons per

page were used, the project could have 73 pages. Given the memory limits of

the C-Touch unit it is unlikely that a project that size with typical graphics and

fonts would be downloadable. The “three deep” rule is thus not a great

restriction.

Once the overall storyboard is sketched out, the schedules and scenes need to

be designed.