Crestron
TPMC-9L
Isys
®
9” Wall Mount Touch Screen
MultiByte International Characters
Most languages use a single byte of eight bits to represent a character, e.g., English,
French, German, Hebrew, Russian, Thai, etc.
Multibyte character fonts require more than the usual eight bits to specify a
character. This occurs when a language has more than 256 characters (2
8
) in a font.
For example, Chinese fonts contain several thousand characters. Other multibyte
languages include Japanese and Korean.
There are two separate applications with multibyte characters – static text on buttons
and indirect text on buttons. No touch screen firmware changes are required in either
case.
Indirect text on a button is entered in VT Pro-e and the actual string to be displayed
is entered in SIMPL Windows. As of this publication date only completely single
byte or completely multibyte strings may be entered or they can not be compiled
correctly in SIMPL Windows. In other words, Chinese characters cannot be
interspersed with numbers. Enter Chinese characters or numbers in separate strings
or pad each number with “\x00” to make it multibyte and then combine it with
Chinese characters in the same string.
Of course, the workaround of showing a graphic that displays the string but which is
not dynamic, can always be used. To compile and use multibyte characters it is
essential that the operating system understand the language. Some versions of
Windows are available in many international languages and add-on software is
available for other versions.
Swipe Gestures
Swipe gestures are assigned using the “Hard Button Manager” in VT Pro-e. They
can be assigned at the project level or at the individual page level. As with regular
buttons, whether virtual ones on the screen or physical hard buttons, these can be
assigned joins or local page flips.
When programming for swipe gestures, it is a good idea to leave an area of the
screen free of touchable objects (e.g., buttons, sliders or other controls). Swipe
gestures can not work over touchable objects, which take precedence over swipes.
Operations & Installation Guide – DOC. 7030B
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