of equipment. Most applets generally display the status of a connected piece of equipment and although
they often provide interaction and feedback through their buttons classes and possibly through embedded
volume controls, they have no user interface of their own that require any further explanation. However
some applets have complex user interfaces and are even capable of navigating through their own
menu/page structures. Setting up applets is explained in the Axium Keypad Manager manual.
Autonomic, iPort and Vantage DMM Applets
The Autonomic, iPort and Vantage DMM applet's user interface provides most of the same pages found on
many other systems such as iPods and should require no further explanation. With the exception of the
playback page, the pages all provide lists for selecting records from the database.
List Navigation
Moving the selection up and down through lists is accomplished by touching the screen and then moving up
or down. If the list is longer than the number of visible lines, scrolling will begin when the selection is moved
beyond the top or bottom of the list. The scrolling speed can be controlled by increasing or decreasing the
distance of the touched position from the original position. To avoid excessive update times, only the
selected line is updated while scrolling. Scrolling can be stopped at any time by releasing the screen, at
which time the display will be updated in full. Alternatively the user can use up, down, page up and page
down buttons if this method of navigation is preferred (use buttons with the corresponding applet specific
button classes).
A thin scrollbar is displayed on the right hand side if the list is longer than the screen. The thumb size
reduces as the list increases in length indicating the number of pages in the list. Touching the scrollbar will
move the current position to anywhere in the list. This is possible despite the thin track width because
touches extending up to about 5mm left of the scrollbar are also regarded as scrollbar input.
The selected record can be entered using the Enter button (i.e. a button with the “Enter” class) or by
“double clicking” the applet. A double click is done by touching the applet twice in rapid succession in
approximately the same place. It is not necessary to touch the selected record.
The applet's back button is used to return to the previous list. In playback mode this also returns from the
playback page to the previously displayed list but after 10 seconds of idle time the playback page will be
automatically re-selected. If the back button is pressed but there is no previous list to display, the previous
page will be displayed and the applet will be unloaded.
Playback
If the selected record is a song and it is entered, playback will commence with the selected song in its play
list. The play button will also start playback of the play list represented by the selected record. Playback is
not possible from the top level menu.
Aside from starting playback, the play button can pause and resume playback when pressed briefly. Using a
long press, playback will be stopped.
The track+ and track- buttons will skip to the next or previous track if pressed briefly. Using a long press,
fast forward or rewind will occur as long as the button is held down. The Vantage DMM applet also responds
to touches on the song progress bar.
Clock Applet
The clock applet does not display the time and date if it is not known. In this case use the mode and +/-
buttons (use button classes under Applets – Clock) to set the time. The AX-R4 will retrieve the time and date
from the internet if it has access and it is configured to do so.
Daylight saving is handled automatically using the local time zone definitions from the PC used for uploading
the configuration to the KPC. If the rules defining when daylight saving begins or ends are changed, ensure
that Windows is updated with the new time zone definitions (Windows Update should take care of this) and
upload the configuration again.
