Defining the Navigation for UI Devices
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Defining the Navigation for UI Devices
Overview
User-Interface (UI) devices are the AMX devices in the system that the end-user will interact with to
control the other equipment in the system. UI devices can be either AMX Touch Panels or AMX Mio
Modero Keypads.
In either case, once you have added at least one UI device to the system, you'll need to define the
navigation for each UI device.
Touch Panels
- For Touch Panels, defining "navigation" means specifying the layout of the
touch panel pages and buttons that allow the end-user to select and control specific controlled
devices via the panel.
Keypad UI
- For Keypads, defining "navigation" entails specifying the keypad button layout
The UI tabs provide a graphical representation of how the user will navigate the UI to access devices in
the system.
Defining Touch Panel Navigation
Once you have added a touch panel to the System diagram, a Touch Panel UI tab is created for that panel.
This is where you will create a Touch Panel UI diagram that defines the layout and navigation of the
panel pages and buttons that provide the GUI for the end-user.
As a basic example of Touch Panel navigation, each panel has a start page that is displayed when the
panel is powered up. The start page will typically contain several buttons that, when pushed by the user,
will flip to other pages on the panel. A very simple scenario would be to have buttons on the Start page
that provide access to device-specific pages. In this case, the user might be presented with four buttons:
CD Player, DVD Player, Display and Sound System. When the user presses the CD Player button, the
device page for the CD Player is invoked, allowing the user to control the CDP via the control buttons on
that page. Similarly, the DVD Player button would open the DVD Player's device page with transport
controls for that device. Likewise, the Display and Sound System buttons would take the user to the
Display device page and the Sound System device page.
More typically, Touch Panel UI navigation can be more complex, to accommodate multiple modes and
zones of control within the system. For more complex systems, the Start page might contain buttons that
take the user to Mode Selection pages to allow them to select from two or more control modes (for
example to separate A/V equipment from HVAC equipment), rather than directly to a device page.
In many cases, controlled devices are too complex to represent all of their functions on a single touch
panel page. In these cases, you might choose to use multiple pages to organize device functions in a way
that makes it easy for the end-user to control the device.
Note that when you select a Touch Panel UI tab, the options in the Toolbox change to support
UI design, and the Touch Panel Toolbar is displayed.
Select and apply a touch panel template before starting the UI design. Without a template,
there are no Template Elements available to select from.
Initially the Touch Panel UI diagram indicates the touch panel (as the Start Device element), and the
controlled devices in the system.
Note that each device in the system is represented with its own UI element.
In the context of the Touch Panel Navigation tab, these elements represent separate pages in the touch
panel design, not the physical devices. Each device has its own page, where you will define the buttons
that provide access to device functions.
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