Specifications

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5.7” Wireless Touchpanel Crestron TPS-6X
NOTE: Join numbers 16 and 17 are fixed for the two “trigger” keys, the
top-mounted pushbuttons on the TPS-6X. The left trigger key toggles power when
the unit is undocked and initiates Sleep mode when docked. In addition, when held
for five seconds, it initiates a touchpanel reset. The right trigger key toggles screen
brightness, unless it is disabled with the on-screen button in the BACKLIGHT
SETUP menu (refer to “BACKLIGHT” which starts on page 30).
While both of these join numbers can be programmed to perform other functions,
their main functions as outlined above will still be in effect, i.e. each button will
perform both its default and its newly programmed operation.
MultiByte International Characters
Most languages use a single byte of eight bits to represent a character, e.g. English,
French, German, Hebrew, Russian, Thai, etc.
Multibyte character fonts require more than the usual eight bits to specify a
character. This occurs when a language has more than 256 characters (2
8
) in a font.
For example, Chinese fonts contain several thousand characters. Other multibyte
languages include Japanese and Korean.
There are two separate applications with multibyte characters – static text on buttons
and indirect text on buttons. No Isys touchpanel firmware changes are required in
either case.
Indirect text on a button is entered in VisionTools Pro-e and the actual string to be
displayed is entered in SIMPL Windows. As of this publication date only completely
single byte or completely multibyte strings may be entered or they will not be
compiled correctly in SIMPL Windows. In other words, you cannot enter Chinese
characters interspersed with numbers. You can enter Chinese characters or numbers
in separate strings or you can pad each number with “\x00” to make it multibyte and
then combine it with Chinese characters in the same string.
Of course, you can always use the workaround of showing a graphic that displays the
string but it is not dynamic. To compile and use multibyte characters it is essential
that the operating system understand the language. Windows XP and Vista are
available in many international languages and add-on software is available for other
versions of Windows.
Example Program
An example program for the TPS-6X is available from the Crestron website
(www.crestron.com/exampleprograms).
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