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Operation of Screen Data (Application) File
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Parts Collection
Lamps and touch switches will be graphical and expressive parts when they are
combined with image/library data or image lamps. These graphical lamps and
touch switches are registered to the Parts Collection (Parts Collection for each
PT model is provided).
Using [Import Component] command, desired data can be copied/pasted from
Parts Collection to the editing screen easily.
Reference:
Parts Collection is supplied only for the Support Tool on CD-ROM. It can be
installed by specifying “Sample Collection” when installing the Support Tool.
Parts Collection for NT11S/NT11, NT20/NT20S and NT600S is not supplied.
Parts Collection is created in MMI format. It may take time to read out/save
MMI file.
If you install the Parts Collection, the Parts Collection List, which shows how to
use the Parts Collection, the list of screen images, will be automatically
installed as well. This list is stored in the Parts Collection List folder inside the
Sample collection folder.
Operation Procedure
To use the Parts Collection, follow the procedure below.
Here, operations such as copying, pasting, drag & drop are not described in de-
tails. Please refer to 8-1 Image Editor, 8-2 Library Editor and 6-1-5 Copying, Cut-
ting, Pasting, and Deleting Elements.
(1) Open the screen data file to which you want to paste data from Parts Collec-
tion.
(2) Select [Import Component] from the [File] menu.
(3) Dialog box to specify the file to be opened is displayed. Open the Sample
Collection folder in the folder that Support Tool has been installed into. Then,
open the folder of the required PT model (see below). Select “Memory Map
Image File (*.mmi)” as a file type.
Parts Collection for each PT model is displayed. Specify the Parts Collection
of the PT model same as the currently opened screen data file and click the
Button.
Second Support Tool starts up and the selected Parts Collection opens.
(4) In the screen data file of Parts Collection, decide the object that you want to
import.
(5) If the object contains image/library data, the image/library data should be co-
pied between image/library table entries beforehand by copy/paste operation
if NT-series Support Tool version number is lower than 4.6. Follow the proce-
