AMX TPDESIGN3 V3.16 Bedienungsanleitung

instruction manual

Software

TPDesign3

Touch Panel Design Program

(Version 3.16)

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Table of Contents

TPDesign3 Touch Panel Program

Table of Contents

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

Features ............................................................................................................................ 1

Minimum System Requirements ....................................................................................... 1

Supported Platforms for HTML.......................................................................................... 2

Web Servers ............................................................................................................................ 2

Web Clients.............................................................................................................................. 2

Installing TPDesign3 ......................................................................................................... 2

Touch Panel Pages ........................................................................................................... 2

Window and Toolbar Reference ..............................................................................5

TPDesign3 Windows ......................................................................................................... 5

Main Menu......................................................................................................................... 6

Standard Toolbar............................................................................................................... 8

Main Toolbar ..................................................................................................................... 9

Button Borders Toolbar ................................................................................................... 10

Button Types Toolbar ...................................................................................................... 11

Fonts Toolbar .................................................................................................................. 12

Hotkey Shortcut Information............................................................................................ 13

Designing Panel Pages ..........................................................................................15

Defining your Preferences............................................................................................... 15

Creating a New Project ................................................................................................... 16

Setting Panel Properties.................................................................................................. 17

Importing Bitmaps ........................................................................................................... 18

Optimization of images........................................................................................................... 19

Importing Icons................................................................................................................ 19

Creating/Editing an Icon .................................................................................................. 20

Managing Fonts............................................................................................................... 20

Creating a New Page ...................................................................................................... 21

Setting Page Properties .................................................................................................. 21

Creating a Button ............................................................................................................ 22

Assigning Button Color Properties .................................................................................. 22

Selecting a Button Color.................................................................................................. 23

Changing Button Borders ................................................................................................ 23

Adding Button Text.......................................................................................................... 24

Adding a button type ....................................................................................................... 25

Selecting an Icon............................................................................................................. 25

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Selecting a Picture .......................................................................................................... 26

Image Positioning................................................................................................................... 26

Changing Button Size ..................................................................................................... 27

Using the size to picture feature............................................................................................. 27

Locking the Position of a Button...................................................................................... 28

Copying and Pasting Buttons.......................................................................................... 28

Setting General Button Properties .................................................................................. 28

Creating a Page Flip .............................................................................................................. 30

Setting Joystick Button Properties .................................................................................. 30

Setting Bargraph/Slider Control Button Properties.......................................................... 31

Setting Brightness Button Properties .............................................................................. 32

Setting Date Button Properties........................................................................................ 32

Setting Time Button Properties ....................................................................................... 32

Setting Keyboard Button Properties................................................................................ 33

Setting Keypad Button Properties ................................................................................... 33

Setting Panel Setup Button Properties............................................................................ 33

Setting Sensors Setup Button Properties on CP4 panels............................................... 33

Setting Video Setup Button Properties............................................................................ 34

Setting VGA Video Setup Button Properties................................................................... 34

Setting Video Window Button Properties ........................................................................ 34

Setting Video Joystick Button Properties ........................................................................ 35

Defining External Buttons................................................................................................ 36

Verifying Channel Assignments ...................................................................................... 37

Creating a Popup Page................................................................................................... 37

Managing a Popup Page................................................................................................. 38

Run Simulation................................................................................................................ 38

Downloading a Project to a Touch Panel........................................................................ 38

Using TPDesign3 to Download Design XPress 1.1 - Generated Panel Pages...................... 39

Uploading a Project from a Touch Panel ........................................................................ 39

HTML Conversion and Server Download........................................................................ 40

Downloading to a NetLinx Master on a LAN .......................................................................... 41

Product Information

TPDesign3 Touch Panel Program

Product Information

TPDesign3 is a 32-bit Windows®application that enables you to create touch panel pages in

minutes. You can use TPDesign3 to import fonts, bitmaps, and icons for use in your file pages and

then download the newly created files to either a touch panel or the Internet. TPDesign3 provides

point-and-click touch panel programming and page printing. You can program panels through the

Central Controller's program port via AXlink or directly through the touch panel's onboard RS-232

DB-9 port. In order for touch panels to effectively handle using TPD3 designed panel pages, they

must have the most current firmware and appropriate memory installed.

Features

! Added a Snap To Grid icon feature to both the Edit and right-click button menus.

! Added the Confirm Page Delete Actions to the Edit > Preferences > Application tab >

Miscellaneous section. This feature confirms page deletion from the current TPDesign3

project file.

! Addition of items to the Main toolbar, such as: Snap To Grid, On State, and Lock Button

(also added to both the Edit and Button drop-down menus).

! Sensors Setup button on the Button Types toolbar is available for the adjustment of

sensors on the four-inch Color Passive panels.

! Static and WebLinx HTML files now have the option to enable or disable the emulation

of external buttons.

! Size To Picture feature resizes a button to fit the dimensions of the inserted graphic.

! Simulation mode and Static/WebLinx exports now obey External Button Style properties.

! Increased support of image types by the Bitmap Manager.

! Provides support for 1 and 2-bit Black/White bitmaps.

! Unicode®character support for far-eastern languages such as Chinese. Characters for

middle-eastern languages such as Arabic are not supported within the Unicode fonts

because they are bi-directional. Buttons with Unicode fonts can only be created and

edited using the TPDesign3 Touch Panel Design Program.

! Upload, revise, and update existing TPDesign3 touch panel files.

Minimum System Requirements

! Pentium 233 (recommended 300 MHz) class central processing unit (CPU)

! Windows®compatible CD-ROM drive

! Microsoft Windows 95®, 98®, 2000®, or Windows NT®4.x (service pack 5 or greater)

operating systems

! 48 MB RAM for Windows 95/ 98 (64 MB recommended for Windows NT) (96 MB

recommended for Windows 2000)

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! 75 MB (150 MB recommended) of free hard-disk space

! VGA monitor running a minimum resolution of 800x600

! Mouse or equivalent pointing device

Supported Platforms for HTML

Web Servers

Touch panel files exported as Inactive HTML are compatible with any Web Server. A Web Client

can run these same files locally, without the need for a Web Server. Files exported as Active

WebLinx HTML require a Web Server capable of processing ASP scripts that use VBScript. This

currently means using either Microsoft's Personal Web Server for Windows 95, 98, or Windows NT

4.0 Workstation, and Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Services) for Windows NT 4.0 Server,

Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows 2000 Server.

Files exported as Active NetLinx HTML are intended to be run against the internal Web Server in a

NetLinx controller, and require no additional external Web Server.

Web Clients

Touch panel files exported as either Inactive HTML or Active WebLinx HTML are compatible with

any Web Client that can execute client-side JavaScript 1.1 code and that has basic DHTML support.

Clients include Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (and higher) running on all platforms for which

they have been released (Windows, Unix, and Mac).

Installing TPDesign3

To install the TPDesign3 program:

1. Put the AMX Control Disc into the CD-ROM drive.

2. In File Manager (or Explorer in Windows), double-click AMXSetup.exe from the directory

window for your CD-ROM drive.

3. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.

Restarting the computer is not necessary for installation.

Touch Panel Pages

The area of display on an AMX touch panel is called a page. Pages can be designed as a control

panel. You can add buttons, bargraphs, sliders, and drawings to a touch panel page, and then

designate the control functions for each object. FIG. 1 shows a page created for a touch panel.

You can create as many panel and popup pages as needed to achieve your functional goals. Refer to

the Setting General Button Properties section on page 28 for more information on creating and

applying page flip features.

When you create multiple pages, you must link them (via page flips) to be able to go from one page

to another. Do this with a page-flip attribute assigned to the specific button. For example, FIG. 1

Touch panel files exported as Inactive HTML or Active HTML are not supported in

Netscape Navigator.

Product Information

TPDesign3 Touch Panel Program

shows a page with a DVD button. When pressing this button, the desired result is to go to a pre-

constructed page (or popup page) that allows you to change preferences for the DVD (FIG. 2). The

page flip to the DVD popup page (DVD CONTROL) is selected for the Destination.

Therefore, in an actual operation of the program, pressing the DVD button creates a page flip to the

popup page called DVD CONTROL that contains buttons that control the DVD.

FIG. 1 Example touch panel page

FIG. 2 Example touch panel page with assigned page flip

Button selected for button

properties assignments

Button Properties box

Button position on

page

Assigned page flip attributes

cause the popup page on the

left to appear

Popup page

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Window and Toolbar Reference

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

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Main Menu

Provide access to all functional features applicable within a project file.

! File menu items are used on the Project files.

! Edit menu items are used on both the page elements and the Project file.

! Panel menu options are used on panel elements.

•NEW creates a new project file and opens a New Workfile dialog box.

•OPEN opens an existing project file.

•CLOSE closes an open project.

•SAVE saves an open project file with the default information for the name.

•SAVE AS saves an open project in a selected folder location, with a manually entered file

name, and as a selectable file type.

•SAVE ALL saves all .TPD project files that are currently open.

•SAVE AS DIFFERENT PANEL TYPE opens the New Panel Type dialog box, and saves the

current project file as a panel type other than the type selected in the New Workfile dialog box

for the current project.

•DOWNLOAD TO PANEL opens the Download To Panel dialog box. Use this dialog to

download buttons, pages, bitmaps, icons, and fonts to a touch Panel.

•UPLOAD FROM PANEL opens the Upload From Panel dialog box. Use this dialog to upload

buttons, pages, bitmaps, icons, and fonts from a touch Panel.

•RUN SIMULATION runs your project file on your computer (with limited functionality).

•SAVE AS HTML opens the HTML Conversion Options dialog box and allows you to convert

your panel file.

•PRINT SETUP opens the Print Setup dialog box and sets the printer, paper size, paper

source, and orientation options.

•PRINT PREVIEW opens a graphical image of the touch panel pages contained in the project

file. Provides the option to select from three types of print information for a selected page.

•PRINT prints the selected panel page using one of three types of print information.

•Properties opens the Project Properties dialog box and displays all available information on

the project file.

•(FILE HISTORY) lists the most recently opened files with the accompanying file location.

•CUT cuts selected objects or text, and moves the selection to a clipboard buffer.

•COPY copies a selected object or text to the clipboard.

•PAST E pastes an object or text stored in the clipboard buffer (with the Cut or Copy option)

and places it into a specified location.

•DELETE deletes a selection.

•SELECTION TOOL when active, allows you to select objects on a panel page.

•BUTTON DRAW is used to create buttons on a panel page.

•QUICK TEXT types text on a button using the currently set font options.

•SNAP TO GRID positions selected page elements (such as buttons) on grids lines. These

grid units are defined in the Edit > Preferences > Application tab.

•SELECT ALL select all objects or text on the page.

•PREFERENCES configures the Project preferences used by TPDesign3 as a baseline for the

creation of any further projects.

•EXTERNAL BUTTONS sets the channel codes, page flips, and string outputs.

•SENSORS sets the Panel Sensors device and channel values.

•CHANNEL MAPS opens the Channel Map dialog box and allows you to view the channels

(CODE) and level numbers assigned to the touch panel buttons.

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