Designing Panel Pages
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TPDesign3 Touch Panel Program
Verifying Channel Assignments
Confirm you have assigned channel values to various buttons, through the use of the Button
Properties dialog box. To confirm the channels (CODE) and level numbers assigned to each of the
touch panel buttons in your project, use Channel Maps
1.
Select a button and click the Channel Maps button
from either the Panels drop-down menu
or Main toolbar to open the Channel Map Locator for the current project.
The 255 numbered buttons represent the 255 available channels for each of the used device
values.
2.
Click on the appropriate view of available channel types and then select from the listing of
assignable Device Numbers. The channel buttons display a red checkmark on those channel
values that are already assigned to a button.
3.
Double-click on the channel map button values to open the Channel Map locator dialog box.
This dialog box displays the button and location assigned to the selected channel value and
device number. The Channel Location page filed displays the different pages containing
buttons with the same channel code value and using the same device number.
4.
Click Exit and Close to shut-down the Channel Maps dialog box.
Creating a Popup Page
Popup pages are partial pages used with full-page screens. When a popup page is created from a
button, the popup page takes on the attributes and properties assigned to the button selected to
activate the popup page.
To create a popup page:
1.
Using the Page drop-down menu, or the right-mouse click Page options menu (FIG. 23), select
the Add Popup Page button tool. The Add Popup Page dialog box (FIG. 23) opens.
2.
Enter the name for the new popup page; select the Left and Top positions for the button
placement on the page, and enter the dimensions for the popup page.
3.
Click OK to open the Popup Page Editor.
FIG. 23
Right-click page options menu and Add Popup Page dialog box
Right-click
page options
menu
Add Popup
Page dialog
box
You can use a pre-existing button and its attributes to automatically create a popup
page that matches it. Select a button, and the Add Popup page option. The button's
attributes are automatically plugged into the Add Popup Page dialog box. Then,
select OK to create the new popup page with the button's attributes.