Extron electronics TouchLink Series Gebrauchsanweisung

Best Practices Guide

Extron TouchLink™

Touchpanel Conﬁguration

TouchLink™Touchpanel Best Practices

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Contents

INTRODUCTION .................................................. 3

GETTING STARTED

1. Know Your AV System............................................ 4

2. Upgrade Your Firmware........................................... 4

3. Upgrade Your Software ........................................... 5

4. Update Your Device Drivers ........................................ 5

CONFIGURATION

5. Initial Setup .................................................... 6

6. Save Unused Pages and Pop-ups in GUI Conﬁgurator ................... 6

7. Include Location in Your Naming Convention........................... 7

8. Use Master Pages............................................... 7

9. Use Modal Pop-up Pages ......................................... 8

10. Be Consistent With Button Placement................................ 8

11. Use Contrasting Colors With Your Text and Backgrounds ................. 9

12. Use Alignment Tools ............................................. 9

13. Use the Copy Properties Tool ...................................... 9

14. ID Management................................................ 10

15. Time Delay Requirements ........................................ 10

16. Use Feedback ................................................. 11

17. Use Front Panel Lock – Executive Mode ............................. 11

18. Use Side Buttons Appropriately.................................... 11

19. Button Naming For Global Viewer .................................. 11

TESTING AND TROUBLESHOOTING

20. Test with Global Viewer .......................................... 11

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INTRODUCTION

TouchLink is the ﬁrst fully conﬁguration-based touchpanel. When combined

with an Extron IP Link®Control Processor, TouchLink has the power to handle

the control needs of single display rooms, dual display rooms, divisible rooms,

multi-image systems, and video conference suites.

To deploy TouchLink Touchpanels, Global Conﬁgurator - GC and GUI

Conﬁgurator - GUIC software are required. These software products are used

to conﬁgure your AV control system and set up your TouchLink Touchpanel

interface.

This document is a collection of best practices designed to ensure a quick

and successful installation of your Extron TouchLink Touchpanel-based control

system.

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GETTING STARTED

The ﬁrst step in setting-up your TouchLink Control System

1. Know Your AV System

Become familiar with the components of your AV system. This knowledge is necessary to determine the pages, pop-ups,

and buttons that should be a part of the graphical user interface on your TouchLink Touchpanels.

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LAN

POWER

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COM3 IR

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OFF

DISPLAY

MUTE

SCREEN

DOWN

VCR

DVD

DOC

CAM

LAPTOP

XPA1002

LIMITER/PROTECT

SIGNAL

OVER

TEMP

Extron

XPA 1002

Power Amplier

Extron

TLP 700MV

7" TouchLink

Panel

Extron

IPL 250

IP Link Ethernet

Control Processor

TCP/IP

Network

Lighting

System

Projector

Screen

Control

Laptop

DVD

Player

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resentation

Swit

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DVI

Motion

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RS-232

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Extron

IR Emitter

Single Display - System Design Drawing

2. Upgrade Your Firmware

Your TouchLink or IP Link products may beneﬁt from periodic ﬁrmware updates that enable new features and capabilities.

Firmware can be found on the Extron website at: http://www.extron.com/ﬁrmware. Please read all applicable release

notes before upgrading ﬁrmware. For detailed instructions, and to verify your current ﬁrmware version, refer to the

Firmware Upload FAQ Guide. Upgrades from some older ﬁrmware versions call for a device reset and for re-uploading

of your original Global Conﬁgurator and/or GUI Conﬁgurator project ﬁles.

Firmware Loader

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3. Upgrade Your Software

TouchLink Touchpanels use GUI Conﬁgurator V1.0 and Global Conﬁgurator V3.0 or later for setup. Current versions of

GUI Conﬁgurator and Global Conﬁgurator can be downloaded from the Extron website at: http://www.extron.com/

TouchLink. Keeping the most recent versions of software will help ensure you fully utilize your control systems. Please

review Release Notes before updating software.

Downloading TouchLink Software

4. Update Your Device Drivers

The latest Extron device drivers can be downloaded from: http://www.extron.com/download/driverﬁlter.aspx. All driver

ﬁles should be placed in the “Driver2” folder on your computer. This folder’s location can vary, but can easily be located

from within the Global Conﬁgurator program. In Global Conﬁgurator under “Help” is the “About GC3” dialog box. Simply

click on “Help” - “About GC3” - and click on the link that reads, “Open the driver folder.”

Downloading Device Drivers

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CONFIGURATION

To conﬁgure your TouchLink Control System, start with Global Conﬁgurator for initial set-up. Next, use GUI Conﬁgurator

to conﬁgure graphical elements – your pages and pop-ups. Lastly, go back to Global Conﬁgurator to conﬁgure additional

features.

Start with Global Conﬁgurator

5. Initial Setup

In Global Conﬁgurator, select your IP Link control processor and add drivers for your devices. Check the Communication

Sheets for each device to verify your commands. This helps determine which buttons are needed in your graphical user

interface, or GUI. Drivers for commonly used devices like digital signal processors and video conference units come with

speciﬁc instructions.

Accessing the Driver Communication Sheet from GC

Switch to GUI Conﬁgurator

6. Save Unused Pages and Pop-ups in GUI Conﬁgurator

After selecting your template in GUI Conﬁgurator, do not delete unwanted pages and pop-ups. Instead, de-link them from

your buttons. These pages and pop-ups may become useful when updating your system in the future.

Removing Doc Cam button and saving Doc Cam popup

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7. Include Location in Your Naming Convention

Pages and pop-ups should be named after the location and device they control. For example, if you have two DVD

players and need one pop-up for each, rather than naming the pop-ups DVD 1 and DVD 2, it is clearer to name them

DVD-Classroom101 and DVD-Classroom102. Adding location information to your naming conventions makes it easier to

differentiate and assign page ﬂip commands to your buttons.

Naming Convention in GUI Conﬁgurator

8. Use Master Pages

Items common to most pages and pop-ups in your control system should be placed on a Master Page and Master Pop-

up, respectively. For example, if there is only one volume control needed in a system, it is a good practice to place it on

the Master Page.

Master Page

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9. Use Modal Pop-up Pages

Modal pop-up pages block operations until another, pre-determined task is completed. For example, a modal pop-up

page could block access to the touchscreen while the controller is performing the auto-image function.

10. Be Consistent With Button Placement

Be consistent in your placement of buttons from page to page. For example, if your DVD page has the Rewind, Play, and

Fast-Forward buttons at the top of the page, place these same buttons at the top of the VCR page as well.

DVD Popup

VCR Popup

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11. Use Contrasting Colors With Your Text and Backgrounds

To ensure text is legible, use a text color that highly contrasts with the background color. Please reference our GUI

Design Guide for more information on this topic, as well as general GUI design guidelines.

12. Use Alignment Tools

From GUI Conﬁgurator, use the alignment tools to position buttons on your pages. Doing so guarantees that your buttons

are placed in precisely the same spot on every page, eliminating the problem of buttons that appear to “jump” when

navigating between pages.

Alignment Tools

13. Use the Copy Properties Tool

The “Copy Properties” tool will copy only the properties of one object to another. For example, to keep your buttons of

consistent size, the “Copy Properties” tool can be used to copy and paste the button size only – leaving other attributes

untouched.

Copying Object Properties

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14. ID Management

Use caution when assigning IDs to your buttons. The “Where Used” window in GUI Conﬁgurator is a useful tool for

tracking and managing the button IDs. Additionally, the “Show Control Info” option under the “Window” menu indicates

which ID is currently assigned to each button.

Enabling Where Used Window

Enabling Show Control Info opton

To export the completed GUI project and import that project to

Global Conﬁgurator, please refer to the How Do I...? document.

15. Time Delay Requirements

Any control that requires time delay must be conﬁgured from Global Conﬁgurator. For example, “System ON” button

needs a time delay to allow the projector to warm up. Leave this button un-conﬁgured in GUI Conﬁgurator and conﬁgure it

from within Global Conﬁgurator.

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