Whelen Engineering Company SmartArrow MGM01, Programming Manual, Page: 2 / 24

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C
ontents
Introduction........................................................................................................................... 3
Section I: Installing and Operating the Programming Software............................................. 3
Installing the Messenger Programming Software
................................................................... 3
Windows 3.x
................................................................................................... 3
Windows 95
.................................................................................................... 3
Starting the Messenger Software
....................................................................................... 4
Windows 3.x
................................................................................................... 4
Windows 95
.................................................................................................... 5
Selecting the proper Messenger Display .................................................................................................
5
Creating a Message File or Library File
............................................................................... 6
Section II: Designing a Message .......................................................................................... 8
Message Characteristics
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Display Characteristics
...................................................................................... 8
Functional Characteristics
................................................................................... 8
Exercise I: Creating a Message
...................................................................................... 10
Exercise II: Font Justification
......................................................................................... 11
Exercise III: Font Effects
............................................................................................... 13
Mirror
............................................................................................................ 13
Reverse
......................................................................................................... 13
Bold
.............................................................................................................. 14
Exercise IV: Message Timing
......................................................................................... 15
Continuous Mode
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On-Off Mode
................................................................................................... 15
Exercise V: Scrolling
.................................................................................................... 16
On-Off Mode
................................................................................................... 16
Continuous Mode
............................................................................................. 17
Section III: Additional Features............................................................................................. 19
Exercise VI: Copying & Pasting a Message from one file to another
...................................... 19
Exercise VII: Copying & Pasting multiple Messages from one file to another
.......................... 19
Exercise VIII: Deleting Messages
.................................................................................... 19
Exercise IX: Uploading a Message File to the Messenger display
......................................... 20
Section IV: Trouble-Shooting ................................................................................................ 22
I
llustrations
Figure 1 - “Searching for Messenger” Window.............................................................................. 5
Figure 2 - “Setup” sub-menu ......................................................................................................... 6
Figure 3 - “Display Model Selection” window ................................................................................ 6
Figure 4 - “File” sub-menu............................................................................................................. 7
Figure 5 - “Create a New Message File” window .......................................................................... 7
Figure 6 - “TEST.MSG” ................................................................................................................. 7
Figure 7 - “Messenger Editor” window .......................................................................................... 8
Figure 8 - “Segment Scrolling Parameters” window (On-Off Mode).............................................. 8
Figure 9 - “Segment Scrolling Parameters” window (Continuous Mode) ...................................... 8
Figure 10 - “Messenger Editor” window (“Caution Ahead”)............................................................. 11
Figure 11 - “Test.MSG” (with “Caution Ahead” message) ............................................................... 11
Figure 12 - Left Justification ............................................................................................................ 11
Figure 13 - Center Justification ....................................................................................................... 12
Figure 14 - Right Justification.......................................................................................................... 12
Figure 15 - Mirrored Display............................................................................................................ 13
Figure 16 - Reverse Display............................................................................................................ 14
Figure 17 - Normal Font .................................................................................................................. 14
Figure 18 - Bold Font ...................................................................................................................... 14
Figure 19 - “Message Uploading” window....................................................................................... 20
Figure 20 - “Message Uploading” window (shown in process)........................................................ 21
Overview - Messenger Connections Layout ................................................................................... 24