Using the DXP-PRO Wizard
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DXP-PRO v1.1 - Programmer’s Guide
Launching the DXP-PRO Project Wizard
Design XPress - Professional (DXP-PRO) uses a Project Wizard to step you through the process of
designing and configuring a business-room oriented control system. This is done through the use of
configuration dialogs (described in the following sections).
There are three ways to approach launching the DXP-PRO Project Wizard:
Select
File
>
New
.
Click the
Create New Project
command button (in the lower-left corner of the Main
Screen).
Double-click on the sample project ("DXP-PRO Sample Project") in the Project Selection
List.
This invokes the first Project Wizard dialog:
System Information
, containing a summary of the
system information for this project. If you are starting a new project, the
Created By
and
Company
fields are pre-populated with the information entered in the
User Information
dialog at startup.
Also, there are two default devices (an A/V Switcher and a Video Projector) present in the Device
Information table, ready for you to configure (see the System Information topic for details).
To create a new project, click on the
Create New Project
command button. This launches the
Project Wizard, which steps you through the process of designing a control system.
At the lower-left corner of this and all Wizard dialogs is a drop-down list titled
Jump To
.
Click the down-arrow to open a list of all Wizard dialogs, and select any dialog from this
list to jump to that dialog.
Additionally, all of the dialogs in the Project Wizard have a set of Navigation Control
buttons along the bottom of the dialog to allow you move back and forth through the
wizard dialogs, and save or cancel your changes.
Some of the Project Wizard configuration dialog include:
System Information (page 22)
Which Screens? (page 41)
Integrated Applications (page 42)
Lighting Presets (page 44)
Touch Panel Interfaces (page 46)
Choose Touch Panel Theme (page 49)
Selecting a custom touch panel theme adds 3 more Choose Touch Panel…options to the Which
Screens dialog and to the Jump to drop-down menu
Choose Touch Panel Background (page 50)
Choose Touch Panel Buttons (page 50)
When you create a new project, the Wizard dialogs become available as selections in
the Jump To list only after they have been populated with the required data. In this
case of the sample project, all Wizard dialogs are available since the project is
complete.