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Table of Contents 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 TPDesign3 Touch Panel Program i Table of Contents 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 ii TPDesign3 Touch Panel Program Product Information 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/ ...