AMX G3 Bedienungsanleitung

instruction manual

To u c h Pa n e l s a n d A c c e s s o r i e s

G3 Firmware

Touch Panel Design and Reference

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Table of Contents

G3 Firmware Design and Reference

Table of Contents

Product Information .................................................................................................1

Using TPDesign3 to Download Bitmaps, Icons, and Fonts............................................... 1

Working with Unicode Fonts.............................................................................................. 2

Unicode in TPDesign ............................................................................................................... 2

Designing Touch Panel Pages ................................................................................5

Buttons .............................................................................................................................. 5

Activating Edit Mode.......................................................................................................... 6

Setting the Device Base .................................................................................................... 8

Setting the Device Used.................................................................................................... 8

Adding a Page................................................................................................................... 9

Setting the page color .............................................................................................................. 9

Adding a Button................................................................................................................. 9

Resizing a button ................................................................................................................... 10

Defining On-Screen and External Button Properties....................................................... 10

Setting the channel code........................................................................................................ 10

Setting the variable text code................................................................................................. 11

Setting the page flip ............................................................................................................... 11

Setting the button colors for channel-off conditions ............................................................... 12

Adding text, icons, and bitmaps to a button ........................................................................... 12

Creating a Bargraph and Joystick ................................................................................... 12

Adding a bargraph button....................................................................................................... 13

Adding a joystick button ......................................................................................................... 13

Setting Bargraph and Joystick Properties ....................................................................... 13

Setting the level code............................................................................................................. 13

Illumination, Sensor, and Audio Setup on a 4" Panel...................................................... 14

Feature Descriptions .............................................................................................................. 14

Adjusting the Sensors Setup Page ........................................................................................ 14

External CP4 PushButtons.............................................................................................. 17

Setting the External PushButton Illumination ......................................................................... 17

Illumination, Sensor, IR, and Audio Setup on a CP4/A Panel......................................... 18

Using the Adjust Sensors Setup Page on a CP4/A................................................................ 18

Using the Audio and IR Device Setup page on a CP4/A ....................................................... 20

External CP4/A PushButtons .......................................................................................... 22

Setting the pushbutton LED illumination ................................................................................ 22

CP4/A Feature Components ........................................................................................... 22

CP4/A Light Sensor................................................................................................................ 22

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CP4/A Passive Infrared Sensor ............................................................................................. 22

CP4/A IR Receiver................................................................................................................. 23

CP4/A Audio Tones................................................................................................................ 23

CP4/A Speaker Volume ......................................................................................................... 23

CP4/A Microphone ................................................................................................................. 23

Creating a Video Window on the AXB-TPI/3................................................................... 23

Adding a video window to a page .......................................................................................... 23

Setting the video window properties ...................................................................................... 24

Setting the input slot assignment ........................................................................................... 24

Fine Tuning the TPI/3 Video Window (RGB and VGA only) ........................................... 24

Adjusting the white balance ................................................................................................... 25

Adjusting horizontal size and tracking.................................................................................... 25

Adjust the image position on the screen ................................................................................ 26

Editor and Setup Reference ..................................................................................27

Setup Page ..................................................................................................................... 27

Protected Setup Page ..................................................................................................... 31

Edit Bar - Button Menu Options ...................................................................................... 37

Properties Page Features ............................................................................................... 42

General button types.............................................................................................................. 43

Joystick button types.............................................................................................................. 45

Vertical bargraph button types ............................................................................................... 46

Horizontal bargraph button types........................................................................................... 47

Brightness button types.......................................................................................................... 48

Time button types................................................................................................................... 49

Date button types................................................................................................................... 49

Keypad button types .............................................................................................................. 49

Keyboard button types ........................................................................................................... 49

Setup button types ................................................................................................................. 49

Video setup button types........................................................................................................ 50

Video window button types .................................................................................................... 51

Video joystick button types..................................................................................................... 51

RGB Setup button types ........................................................................................................ 52

Protected button types ........................................................................................................... 54

Sensor Setup button types..................................................................................................... 54

Properties Page - External Buttons................................................................................. 55

External buttons ..................................................................................................................... 55

Setting external button properties .......................................................................................... 55

Edit Bar - Page Menu options ......................................................................................... 55

Edit Bar - Quit Editor ....................................................................................................... 58

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Product Information

This manual contains information necessary to design touch panel pages using the on-board editor,

available on all touch panels equipped with G3 firmware. G3 refers to the touch panel firmware

version 3.xx or higher.

Using the on-board touch panel editor, you can create pages with buttons, icons, sliders, bargraphs,

time displays, joysticks, and background video.

Using TPDesign3 to Download Bitmaps, Icons, and Fonts

The TPDesign3 touch panel design program allows you to import bitmaps, icons, and fonts to your

touch panel from an existing touch panel project. Use the Download to Panel TPDesign3 feature to

download a project file to a touch panel.

The following steps describe how to download bitmaps, icons, and/or fonts from an existing

TPDesign3 project file.

1. Launch the TPDesign3 software program and open a project file containing the desired

bitmaps, icons, and fonts.

2. Select File > Download to Panel. This opens the Download to Panel dialog box.

3. Click the Comm Settings tab to set the communications port, baud rate, and other

communication settings.

4. Click the Actions tab to set the communication mode with the touch panel and select those

elements of the project file you want to download to the touch panel.

5. In the What To Send area, select one or more of the available options (Bitmaps, Icons, Fonts).

6. Select the mode of communication with the touch panel (AXlink or RS-232). After clicking

Connect, the AXlink window opens. The AXlink window displays the AXlink ID and

Available Panels fields. Confirm that the correct panel is selected by verifying the ID values

with the Base Address assigned to the touch panel in the Protected Setup page.

! The AXlink ID field displays the selected AXlink address.

! The Available Panels field lists the device addresses that are available.

7. Click Begin to download the project file to the touch panel. The bargraph at the bottom of the

Download To Panel dialog box indicates the progress of the download.

8. After completing the download, copy and paste buttons as needed. The bitmaps, icons and

fonts are now accessible via the BITMAPS, ICONS and FONTS menus of the project used in

the Download to Panel process.

The default communication speed is 38.4 K for the baud rate.

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Working with Unicode Fonts

Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by

assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different

encoding systems for assigning these numbers. No single encoding could contain enough

characters. For example, the European Union alone requires several different encodings to cover all

of it's languages. Even for a single language like English, no single encoding was adequate for all

the letters, punctuation, and technical symbols in common use.

These encoding systems also conflict with one another. That is, two encodings can use the same

number for two different characters, or use different numbers for the same character. Any given

computer (especially servers) needs to support many different encodings; yet whenever data is

passed between different encodings or platforms, that data always runs the risk of corruption.

The design of Unicode is based on the simplicity and consistency of ASCII, but goes far beyond

ASCII's limited ability to encode only the Latin alphabet. The Unicode Standard provides the

capacity to encode all of the characters used for the written languages of the world. To keep

character coding simple and efficient, the Unicode Standard assigns each character a unique

numeric value and name.

The original goal was to use a single 16-bit encoding that provides code points for more than

65,000 characters. While 65,000 characters are sufficient for encoding most of the many thousands

of characters used in major languages of the world, the Unicode standard and ISO/IEC 10646 now

support three encoding forms that use a common repertoire of characters but allow for encoding as

many as a million more characters. This is sufficient for all known character encoding

requirements, including full coverage of all historic scripts of the world, as well as, common

notational systems.

Unicode can use up to double word (32 bit) values to assign numbers to characters. That allows

character locations in the millions. Most characters are assigned values in word (2 byte, or 16 bit)

values. If you have a 32 bit Operating System like Windows NT, 2000, or XP, you can view fonts

that have many characters beyond the basic ASCII set up to 128 and the extended ASCII up to 255

characters. The use of the Windows utility "Character Map" will show you that fonts like Arial and

Tahoma have Hebrew and Arabic characters, as well as our normal Latin (English) alphabet.

Unicode in TPDesign

TPD3 does not truly have full support for Unicode fonts. The challenge of displaying Unicode

characters on our touch panels was first addressed in TPDesign version 3.12. This version

supported a method to create a font containing a limited number of Unicode characters, primarily

from Far Eastern character sets. This and subsequent versions require a touch panel firmware

upgrade (version 3.20 or greater), and for Far Eastern character sets will require the use of a

localized version of Windows that includes an IME (Input Method Editor) for entering the foreign

language characters. The IME allows the user to select characters (glyphs) based on inputting some

identifying characteristics of the glyph, then selecting the correct glyph from the set that matches

the input.

TPDesign then rasterizes that character and stores it in a special font set created in the project. The

font set will have only the glyphs selected in the IME available for display on the panel. The touch

panels have always been unable to store the full extent of a Unicode font. A full Unicode font

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exceeds the available font memory on all G3 panels. For this reason we are forced to load only the

selected glyphs, up to the space available in font memory.

Since TPD3 uses the IME for selecting and rasterizing the glyphs, this cannot be done on English

language based Operating Systems, which do not have IME. Most European languages also lack

this utility. Chinese, Japanese, and other Far Eastern language Operating System are those that

commonly utilize this method of character selection.

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Designing Touch Panel Pages

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Designing Touch Panel Pages

There are three ways to approach creating touch panel pages:

! TPDesign3 - Refer to the TPDesign3 Touch Panel Program (Version 3.16 or higher)

instruction manual for more information.

! VPXpress - Refer to the VPXpress ViewPoint System Design/Programming Software

Program (Version 1.01 or higher) instruction manual for more information.

! On-board editor (as described in this manual).

Buttons

Standard button types include rectangles and other geometric shapes you can create with the touch

panel editor. Buttons are set with various attributes that specify communication/feedback to and

from the Central Controller when you touch the button.

General buttons are part of the default touch panel program. You use general buttons to create or

revise pages, and specify panel communication parameters. The general button categories are

described in the table below.

General Button Categories

Selection buttons Selection buttons appear on touch panel pages and set communica-

tion parameters.

Information buttons (read-only) Information buttons contain serial numbers and firmware version

information. The properties of these buttons cannot be changed.

These buttons have a dark fill and light text.

Adjustment buttons You can use the UP and DN buttons to set adjustment buttons. The

adjustment button example sets the baud rate for the connection

from the touch panel to the computer.

Keypad buttons The keypad button opens a keypad so you can enter a password or

value assignment. All keypad buttons are interactive except for the

entry display.

Decision buttons Decision buttons appear when an operation has two options and

requires verification before an action is performed.

Designing Touch Panel Pages

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Activating Edit Mode

Before designing touch panel pages and buttons, you must activate Edit mode on the panel (via the

Setup page). Once activated, use the EDIT button to enter Edit mode. This mode has options to add

and configure touch panels, pages, and buttons. When powering up the touch panel, (by default) the

first page is the Main page (FIG. 1). Note that the Edit button is not available initially. If you have a

pre-programmed panel, you may not see the Main page.

To activate the Edit mode:

1. Press SETUP in the Main page to open the Setup page (FIG. 2).

General Button Categories (Cont.)

Status buttons (read-only) Status buttons always have a dark fill with light letters and only

display panel information.

Operation bars Operation bars appear in the place of the Editor bar, after selecting a

button or page edit operation. The operation bar indicates which edit

function is currently active. When an edit operation is selected, it

remains active until you press EXIT.

Touch to Continue buttons "Touch to Continue" buttons appear when an operation requires user

acknowledgement.

Joystick buttons Joysticks are vertical and horizontal direction controllers for use with

pan and tilt camera controllers.

Bargraph buttons Bargraph buttons display a dynamic bargraph (vertical or horizontal).

An example is the Battery level indicator button.

FIG. 1 Main page

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