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Crestron
e-Control
®
elements and features available for TPS panels. Unlike Java-based projects, you can
readily convert existing touchpanel projects to e-Control 2. In addition, subpages will
appear just as they do in touchpanel projects, and the appearance of layered objects
will always be consistent.
When you compile a Java-based project, VT Pro-e generates one HTML file for each
page in the project. With e-Control 2, only two HTML files are generated: an
initialization file that optimizes the download process and ensures that only the latest
components are installed; and a project file containing the HTML user interface. Once
the project file is
downloaded, no further
page updates are necessary,
meaning that the run-time
performance will be the
same as with a touchpanel.
To create an XPANEL
project, simply select
XPANEL
as the panel type
in VT Pro-e. Then click
Project Properties
on the
Edit
menu. Go to the
Compile
tab and select
Browser
as the target, as
shown in the diagram. You
can change the filenames of
the initialization and project
files by entering new names in the .html text fields.
IP Settings (Java and XPANEL)
Like other components of e-Control, the pages in a browser project must be assigned
an IP ID. In most cases, you can give all the pages in the project the same IP ID: go to
the
Web
tab of the
Project Properties
dialog box. Select the IP ID from the drop-
down list, and enter the IP address or fully-qualified domain name of the control
system.
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