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Limited Warranty and Disclaimer AMX Corporation warrants its products to be free from defects in material andworkmanship under normal use for a period of 3 years from date of purchase fromAMX, with the following exceptions: Electroluminescent and LCD control panelsare warranted for a period of 3 yea...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Table of Contents i Table of Contents Introduction ...........................................................................1 Overview 1 Features 2 Applications 3 What’s in this Manual 3 What’s New 4 Installing Touch Panels.........................................
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Table of Contents v Color Guidelines ................................................................ 151 Overview 151 Colors 151 Specifications .................................................................... 153 Overview 153 AXT-CA and AXT-CV 153 AXU-CA(/PB...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Introduction 1 Introduction Overview This manual describes procedures and software related to the new G3 firmwareinstalled in these panels. The Color Active-Matrix Touch Panels (CATPs) contain a640 x 480 (HV) pixel, dedicated 256-color active-matrix liquid crysta...
2 Introduction Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Features Touch Panel features include: • 5.25" x 6.96" (133.45 mm x 176.89 mm) visible screen • 256-color active-matrix 640 x 480 (HV) pixel LCD • 12 programmable pushbuttons (8 on each side - except for the AXT series ) • Microsoft ® mouse...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Introduction 3 Applications The AMX Color Active-Matrix Touch Panels control a wide variety of equipmentconnected to an AXCESS Control System. Figure 3 shows a sample AXU-CA TouchPanel and AXCESS Control System configuration. AXU-CA Serial Mouse(optional) AXlink ...
4 Introduction Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels • A X C E S S P r o g r a m m i n g Describes commands used to integrate Touch Panel features into an AXCESS Control System. • R e p l a c i n g t h e L i t h i u m B a t t e r i e s Shows how to replace the lithium batteries in the CATP. • E X M -...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Installing Touch Panels 5 Installing Touch Panels Overview The section describes how to mount, wire, and clean Touch Panels. Mounting the Touch Panels The following paragraphs describe how to mount the UniMount and rack-mountTouch Panels. The TiltScreen Touch Pan...
6 Installing Touch Panels Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 1.48 1.79 .23 .125 MAX RADIUSIN CORNERS 11.85 (FRAME) 11.40 12.60 CUTOUT (FRAME) 6.88 6.00 6.50 .25 INSERTS AT LOCATIONS OF #6-32 THREADED SUGGEST INSTALLATION FOUR #6-32 SCREWS. UNIT INSTALLS WITH SHOWN INSTALLATION METHOD INSTALLED AS ...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Installing Touch Panels 7 AXU-CV(/PB) or AXU-CA(/PB) and BB-TP1 (solid surfaces) Mount the AXU-CV(/PB) or AXU-CA(/PB) and BB-TP1 (Figure 6) into a solidsurface: Release slot Solid surface mountingflanges Knockout BB-TP1 UniMount Back Box enclosure AXU-CV/PB orAXU...
8 Installing Touch Panels Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels APPD MFG APPD QC APPD ENG CHECKED DRAWN THIRD ANGL used as the basis for manufacture may not be reproduced, copied or previously established. This drawing the extent the information has been known shall be confidential except to containe...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Installing Touch Panels 9 3. Lay the AXU-CV(/PB) or AXU-CA(/PB) facedown onto a soft cloth andremove the four screws from the low-profile back box. Remove the back boxand discard. 4. Place the BB-TP1 into the cutout and mark the threaded insert positions asshown ...
10 Installing Touch Panels Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels AXU-CV(/PB) or AXU/CA(/PB) and BB-TP1 (plasterboard) Mount the AXU-CV(/PB) or AXU-CA(/PB) and BB-TP1 (Figure 8) into aplasterboard surface (or equivalent). IN CORNERS .125 MAX RADIUS CUTOUT .187 DIA4 HOLES TWO .170 DIA HOLES PROVIDED ON...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Installing Touch Panels 11 .125 [3.2 MM] MAX CUTOUT TWO .170 [4.3 MM] DIA HOLES PROVIDED ON 2.94 1.70 1.70 .125 4.25 7.10 7.46 7.80 .35 .170 .52 3.22 (FRAME) (FRAME) [74.7 MM] [8.9 MM] [180.3 MM] 8.187 4.50 2. Insert a flat head screwdriver into the release slot ...
12 Installing Touch Panels Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 8. Fasten the BB-TP1 to the plasterboard using the expansion screws suppliedwith the enclosure. 9. Connect the AXlink and RS-232 wiring to the AXU-CV(/PB) or AXU-CA(/PB)circuit card. Refer to Wiring the Touch Panel for complete wiring i...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Installing Touch Panels 13 4. Insert the AXM-CV(/PB) or AXM-CA(/PB) into the rack. Line up the top leftand right screw holes and start the #6-32 screws. Then, start the bottom leftand right screws. Tighten all the screws after you start all the screws. 5. Connect...
14 Installing Touch Panels Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 2. Insert each wire into the appropriate opening on the connector according tothe wiring diagrams and connector types described in this section. 3. Turn the flat-blade screws clockwise to secure the wire in the connector. Wiring guideli...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Installing Touch Panels 15 Using the AXlink connector for data and power Connect the control system’s AXlink connector to the AXlink connector on the rearof the Touch Panel for data and 12 VDC power as shown in Figure 14. PWR (+) AXM AXP GND (-) AXlink connector ...
16 Installing Touch Panels Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Using the UniMount and rack-mount 4-pin header for mouse control Figure 16 shows the location of the four-pin header on the UniMount and rack-mount Touch Panels. The four-pin header supports Microsoft serial mouse controldevices. Figure...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Installing Touch Panels 17 F o u r - p i n h e a d e r a n d D B - 9 c o n n e c t o r p i n o u t s Four-pinheader Signal Function DB-9 connector (male) pins 1 PWR +12 VDC power 4 and 7 (strap) 2 TXD Transmit data 3 3 RXD Receive data 2 4 GND Ground 5 Cleaning t...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Basics 19 Touch Panel Basics Overview This section contains descriptions and illustration examples of Touch Panel pages(Figure 19), buttons, message bars, and keypads. You can use the Touch Panel’sonboard editor or the TPDesign 3 software program to c...
20 Touch Panel Basics Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Main Page Main Page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 2 Main Page 3 Page 1 Page 4 Page 2 Page 5 Page 3 Main Page 4 Page 1 Standard Buttons Standard buttons are rectangles, rectangle variations, and other geometric shapesthat you can cr...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Basics 21 Information buttons Information buttons contain serial numbers and firmware version information.Figure 22 shows the serial number information button in the Setup page. Adjustment buttons You can use the UP and DN buttons to set adjustment bu...
22 Touch Panel Basics Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Entry display Keypad entry (0 - 9) CLEAR – Resets entry to 0 ENTER – Processes entry if correct Decision buttons Decision buttons (Figure 25) appear when an operation has two options. Decision buttons appear when you send or receive a drawin...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 23 Designing a Touch Panel Page Overview Use the step-by-step instructions to create Touch Panel pages, buttons, joysticks,bargraphs, and set page color attributes. For in-depth information on all theoperations available on the Touch ...
24 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 1. Press SETUP in the MAIN page to open the SETUP page shown in Figure 28. 2. In the above page, press PROTECTED SETUP to open the password keypadshown in Figure 29. F i g u r e 2 8 SETUP page F i g u r e 2 9 SETUP page and passwor...
26 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 6. Press EXIT twice to return to the MAIN page. The EDIT button appears at thetop of the MAIN page, indicating that the Editor mode is active (Figure 32). 7. Press the EDIT button to open the Edit bar, which appears at the top of t...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 27 Edit bar Creating a Page Use the PAGE menu option in the Edit bar to create Touch Panel pages. Adding a page 1. Press PAGE on the Edit bar to open the Page menu options(Figure 34). F i g u r e 3 3 MAIN PAGE and Edit bar F i g u r e...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 29 4. Press EXIT CHANGE to add NEW PAGE to Touch Panel memory, close the keyboard, and return to the NEW page. 5. Press EXIT on the Edit bar. Setting the page color 1. Press EDIT to open the Edit bar shown in Figure 37. 2. Press PAGE ...
30 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 4. Select a page color from the palette. The page automatically changes to the newcolor. Creating a Button Use the BUTTON menu option in the Edit bar to create Touch Panel buttons. Adding a button 1. Press EDIT to open the Edit bar...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 31 3. Press ADD to add a button to the new page. The message bar shown in Figure41 appears. Touch and drag to add a button. The first touch point is the upper-left corner of the button. 4. Push on the panel and drag your finger horizo...
32 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Resizing a button 1. Press EDIT to open the Edit bar. 2. Press BUTTON on the Edit bar to open the menu options shown in Figure 43. 3. Press the RESIZE option to resize the button when the message bar (Figure 44)appears. 4. Push the...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 33 5. Release your finger from the panel to record the button dimensions into thepanel memory. 6. Press EXIT in the Edit bar. Button Properties Use the PROPERTIES option of the BUTTON menu in the Edit bar to set buttonborders, page fl...
34 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Setting the border 1. Press BORDER in the BUTTON PROPERTIES page to open the BUTTONBORDER options pages shown in Figure 49. F i g u r e 4 8 BUTTON PROPERTIES page Note Use the MORE button to view other button border options. F i g ...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 35 2. Press 3D RECTANGLE 1 to set the button border to 3D RECTANGLE 1 style.The BORDER button in the BUTTON PROPERTIES page reflects the selectedborder type. In this case, the button changes to the 3D rectangle border. Setting the cha...
36 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 3. Type 1, 2, 3, or 4 in the keypad. The device number specifies the device for which the selected channel’s feedback is displayed. 4. Press ENTER to store the device number in memory, close the keypad, andreturn to the BUTTON PROP...
38 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 4. Press black to set the border color to black. 5. Press the FILL button in the BUTTON PROPERTIES page to re-open the coloroptions. 6. Press white to set the fill color to white. 7. Press the TEXT button to re-open the color optio...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 39 3. Press TEXT/IMAGE to add text in the selected button. The message bar shownin Figure 58 appears. 4. Press the on-screen button to open the TEXT/IMAGE page shown in Figure 59. F i g u r e 5 7 BUTTON menu options F i g u r e 5 8 TE...
40 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 5. Press TEXT OFF to open the keyboard shown in Figure 60. 6. Type MAIN PAGE . The text appears in the message box at the top of the keyboard. If you exceed the space in the button, the Touch Panel generates anerror message. Change...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 41 Button Properties for External Buttons If your Touch Panel comes with external buttons, these can be configured withfeatures similar to on-screen buttons, for more information see the Creating a Button subsection. Use the PROPERTIE...
42 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 3. Press the PROPERTIES option to open the message shown in Figure 63. 4. Next press the new button. 5. Press BUTTON TYPE (Figure 64) to open the BUTTON TYPE list shown inFigure 65. F i g u r e 6 2 BUTTON menu options F i g u r e 6...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 43 6. Press JOYSTICK to set the selected button as a joystick. 7. Press BUTTON OPTION on the BUTTON PROPERTIES page to open the list ofjoystick button options as shown in Figure 66. F i g u r e 6 4 BUTTON PROPERTIES page F i g u r e 6...
44 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 8. Press CROSSHAIR CENTER to set a crosshair in the center of the joystickbutton and return to the BUTTON PROPERTIES page. 9. Press EXIT SAVE CHANGE to return to the MAIN page. F i g u r e 6 6 JOYSTICK BUTTON OPTIONS list
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 45 Setting the joystick properties 1. Press EDIT, BUTTON, and select PROPERTIES. 2. Press the new button you just created to open the Button Properties page(Figure 67). 3. Press BUTTON TYPE to open Figure 65. 4. Press the JOYSTICK but...
46 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Setting the channel code 1. The two fields to be set for the joystick channel code are DEV (device) andCHAN (channel) as shown in Figure 69. 2. Press DEV to open a keypad and set the joystick’s device number. 3. Type 1, 2, 3, or 4 ...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 47 7. Press ENTER to store the channel code in memory, close the keypad, andreturn to the BUTTON PROPERTIES page. Setting the level code 1. There are two fields in the LEVEL section: DEV (device) and NUM (number), asshown in Figure 70...
48 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 3. Press the FILL button in the Joystick PROPERTIES page to open the coloroptions again. 4. Press white to set the fill color. 5. Press the TEXT button to open the color options again. 6. Press red to set the text color. 7. Press E...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 49 Adding a bargraph to a page 1. Create a new button using the ADD option in the BUTTON menu as describedearlier in this section. 2. Press EDIT to open the Edit bar (Figure 37). 3. Press BUTTON in the Edit bar to open the BUTTON menu...
50 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 6. Press BUTTON TYPE to open the BUTTON TYPE list shown in Figure 77. 7. Select VERTICAL BARGRAPH to open the VERTICAL BARGRAPHPROPERTIES page shown in Figure 78. F i g u r e 7 6 BUTTON PROPERTIES page F i g u r e 7 7 BUTTON TYPE m...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 51 Setting the bargraph properties Use the VERTICAL BARGRAPH PROPERTIES page shown in Figure 78 to setchannel, level, and button colors. Setting the channel code 1. The two fields to be set for the bargraph channel code are DEV (devic...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 53 2. Press black in the color palette (Figure 82) to set the border color. 3. Press the FILL button in the BARGRAPH PROPERTIES page to re-open thecolor options. 4. Press white to set the fill color. 5. Press the TEXT button to re-ope...
54 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 4. Press TEXT/IMAGE to change the MAIN PAGE button text when the messagebar (Figure 84) appears. 5. Press the MAIN button to open the TEXT/IMAGE page shown in Figure 85. F i g u r e 8 3 BUTTON menu options F i g u r e 8 4 Message b...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 55 6. Press TEXT OFF to open the keyboard. 7. Press DEL four times to delete MAIN . 8. Type NEW PAGE . The text appears in the keyboard window shown in Figure 86. 9. Press EXIT CHANGE to close the keyboard and return to the TEXT/IMAGE...
56 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 16. In the BUTTON PROPERTIES page, use the page FLIP boxes (Figure 88) to setthe page flip for the button. 17. Press the left page flip box to open the PAGE FLIP TYPE menu shown inFigure 89. 18. Press FLIP STANDARD to set the PAGE ...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Designing a Touch Panel Page 57 20. Press NEW PAGE to set the page flip and return to the BUTTON PROPERTIESpage. 21. Press EXIT SAVE CHANGE to save changes, close the BUTTON PROPERTIESpage, and return to the Main page. 22. Press EXIT to close the Edit bar. Exitin...
58 Designing a Touch Panel Page Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 3. Press PROTECTED SETUP to open the PROTECTED SETUP page shown inFigure 93. 4. Press EDITOR to toggle EDIT mode off. 5. Press EXIT to close the PROTECTED SETUP page and return to the SETUPpage (Figure 92). 6. Press EXIT to close t...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 59 Touch Panel Program Reference Overview You use the SETUP and PROTECTED SETUP pages to configure the Touch Paneloperates. This section contains operation flowcharts, instructions, and menuoption descriptions. The buttons shown in F...
60 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Optional WIRELESSSETTINGS buttonfor WAV-PK andSMT-PK wirelesscontrol systems. Beep The BEEP button (Figure 97) sets the audible beep duration when you press thescreen. Set the BEEP button on 0 to disable the beep sound. Press the ...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 61 When the Touch Panel goes into screen-saver mode, the LCD is powered-down.With a setting of 5, the panel goes into screen-saver mode if there is no activity for 5minutes. Press the UP and DN buttons to change the time that the tim...
62 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels • • HOUR Press the UP and DN buttons to set the hour. • • M O N T H Press the UP and DN buttons to set the month. • • MIN Press the UP and DN buttons to set the minute. • • D A Y Press the UP and DN buttons to set the day. • • S E...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 63 SERIAL NUMBER button shows the serial number for the Touch Panel, and thevX.XX button shows the current firmware version installed in the Touch Panel. Set brightness Press SET BRIGHTNESS in the SETUP page to open the page shown in...
64 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Wireless settings (optional WAV-PKM) The WIRELESS SETTINGS button appears on the SETUP page when a WAV-PKWavePack is connected to the Touch Panel. The WAV-PK provides wireless two-way RF spread-spectrum Touch Panel control and con...
66 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels • N e t w o r k E f f . X X X % Shows the communication efficiency of bi-directional RF transmissions between the Touch Panel and AXR-WAVES. The efficiencypercentage (0–100%) is determined by the number of retries required tocompl...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 67 communicating with the AXR-RF RF Receiver. Locked indicates the panel islocked on to the AXR-RF connected to the control system. • B a t t e r y V o l t a g e X X . X Shows the voltage level of the lead-acid rechargeable battery i...
68 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Baud The BAUD button (Figure 107) sets the baud rate through a factory installed port atthe rear of the Touch Panel. The baud rate is automatically set to 1,200 when youactivate the MOUSE button. The RS-232 communication automatic...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 69 Device used Press the DEVICE USED button to open the keypad (Figure 109) and set the panel’sdevice number from 1 – 4. Each device number supports up to 255 channel codebutton assignments. The multiple device setting option allows ...
70 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels • M O U S E S P E E D Press the UP and DN buttons to set the mouse pointer speed. The minimum (slowest) speed is 1 and the maximum (fastest) is 10. • • M O U S E A C T I V E Press to activate the mouse pointer. The active mouse po...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 71 Select a page to designate the first page to appear when you power up the TouchPanel. Select NONE to disable this option. If none is selected, the POWER UP pagewill be the last active page the next time the touch panel is used. Wa...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 73 Power up message Press POWER UP MESSAGE (Figure 118) to open the keyboard, and enter an ASCIIstring to be sent to the AXCESS Central Controller when the Touch Panel ispowered up. The control system can be programmed to perform spe...
76 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels • S H O W F O N T S I D ' S Opens the FONTS menu (Figure 127) which shows you a listing of the available fonts. • F A C T O R Y R E S E T Opens the decision button shown in Figure 128. Press YES to clear all Touch Panel memory or ...
78 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Function show Press FUNCTION SHOW (Figure 134) to display channel code numbers andvariable text code numbers on Touch Panel buttons, joysticks, sliders, andbargraphs. As shown in Figure 135, a channel code number appears in the up...
80 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Edit Bar — Button Menu Options Press EDIT and BUTTON to open the menu shown in Figure 139. You can use the BUTTON menu to create, configure, and revise Touch Panelbutton settings. The Touch Panel can however use the other BUTTON m...
82 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Drag your finger horizontally across the screen and down to resize the height andwidth of the button. Press EXIT in the message bar to exit. When you resize the button, the message barshows you the current X/Y page-position coordi...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 83 • T E X T O F F Opens the keyboard (Figure 147) where you enter the text to appear on the OFF-state button. The text appears in the window at the top of the keyboard. If the text stringexceeds the space in the button, the Touch Pa...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 85 • I C O N O F F Opens the ICONS menu (Figure 149) where you select an icon to appear on the Off-state button. Select MORE to view more icons or ABORTto exit and return to the TEXT/IMAGE page. • ICON ON Opens the ICONS menu (Figure...
86 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels • S E T T E X T A L I G N M E N T Sets the text alignment on the button. Figure 151 shows the alignment option textually for each button. The text references donot appear on the actual SET TEXT ALIGNMENT buttons. • M A K E O N S A...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 87 Properties Select PROPERTIES and a button to open the PROPERTIES page (Figure 152).Then, you can set the border style, channel/variable text device and channelnumbers, button type, button options, flip type, string, and channel OF...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 89 • C H A N N E L D E V : Opens the keypad where you set the device number for the current button or Touch Panel page. The device range is 1–4. • CHANNEL CHAN: Opens the keypad where you set the channel code for the current button. ...
90 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels — G E N E R A L Sets the button to automatically send a message to the AXCESS Central Controller via the AXlink connector, PC via the factoryinstalled port connector, or with WAVE wireless communication. Refer to Properties Page— ...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 91 — TIME Sets the button to open the TIME/DATE page shown in Figure 157. Refer to S et time and date described in this section for more information. — D A T E Sets the button to open the TIME/DATE page shown in Figure 157. Refer to ...
92 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels — K E Y P A D Sets the button to open the keypad (Figure 158) so you can enter a password or value assignment. All the keypad buttons areinteractive except for the entry display. — K E Y B O A R D Sets the button to open the keybo...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 93 — V I D E O S E T U P Sets the button to open the VIDEO SETUP page (Figure 161) so you can set the incoming video display on the Touch Panel. BRIGHT Press UP or DN to increase or decrease the brightness level of the LCD. The brigh...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 95 • • C H A N N E L O F F a n d C H A N N E L O N Sets the border, fill, and text colors for the button’s Off and On states. Press the BORDER, FILL, and TEXTbuttons to open the color palette shown in Figure 162. Then, select a color...
96 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Save default Press SAVE DEFAULT to open the EFFECT WHAT menu shown in Figure 163.Then, select a default option to store in Touch Panel memory. The stored defaultsettings are automatically used for all new buttons, and can be appli...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 97 — A L L Select this option and a button to store the default color, border, and size in Touch Panel memory. These default settings are automaticallyapplied to all new buttons. Set default Press the SET DEFAULTS option and a button...
98 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels • • B U T T O N O P T I O N S Opens the BUTTON OPTION menu (Figure 165) where you set the button type. Press ABORT to close the menu. — N O N E Sets the button feedback off. This option also sets the button border, fill, and text ...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 99 — M O M E N T A R Y Sets the button border, fill, and text colors to match the CHANNEL ON color options in the PROPERTIES page when you touchthe button regardless of the assigned function. — BLINK Sets the button to toggle between...
100 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels F L I P P R E V I O U S Sets the button action to open the previous Touch Panel page on the panel. — FLIP STANDARD Sets the button action to open a Touch Panel page. Use the FLIP menu button to open the PAGE menu (Figure 169), ...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 101 • STRING Opens the keyboard where you enter the data string to be sent to the control system via AXlink or RF communications. The data stringappears in the STRING button. Press ABORT to close the menu. Properties Page — Button Ty...
102 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels — J O Y S T I C K N O N - C E N T E R Sets the button to a four-quadrant joystick with a control stick. When you move the control stick, the Touch Panelsends feedback (data) to the control system and to the external device toperf...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 103 a pre-programmed operation. When you remove your finger from thescreen, the control stick and external device stay in that position. • F L I P < F L I P T Y P E > Opens the PAGE FLIP TYPE menu (Figure 172) where you set the...
104 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels — F L I P P O P U P O F F Sets the button action to close a popup page. Select the FLIP menu button (Figure 172) to open the POPUP PAGE menu(Figure 173), and select a popup page to close. — F L I P P R E V I O U S Sets the button...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 105 • STRING Opens the keyboard where you enter the data string to be sent to the control system via AXlink or RF communications. The data stringappears in the STRING button. Press ABORT to close the menu. Properties Page — Button Ty...
106 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels • B U T T O N O P T I O N S Opens the BUTTON OPTION menu (Figure 171) where you set the button type. Press ABORT to close the menu. — B A R G R A P H D I S P L A Y Sets the bargraph as a vertical indicator for external devices. I...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 107 — SLIDER CENTERING Sets the slider as a horizontal controller with a default control level. Control levels are defined in the AXCESS softwareprogram. When a control level change is sent to the control system, theexternal device c...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 109 program. When a control level change is sent to the control system, theexternal device changes accordingly until the control data input stops.Then the control level on the graph returns to the default position and theexternal dev...
110 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Add Press ADD to add a new Touch Panel page. This command opens the keyboard(Figure 181) so you can name your new page. The text appears in the window atthe top of the keyboard. If the text string exceeds the space in the page bu...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 111 — E X I T C H A N G E Returns you to the previous screen while effecting the change that was made within the keyboard. Copy Press COPY to make a copy of the current page. This command opens the keyboard(Figure 181). Use the keybo...
112 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Page Color Press PAGE COLOR to open the color palette shown in Figure 183, and set thepage • T R A N S P A R E N T Sets the page color to transparent (no color). • ABORT Cancels the color selection process and returns to the curr...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 113 Go to Press GO TO to open the PAGE GOTO menu (Figure 184), and select the targetpage. • ABORT Cancels the Go To process and returns to the current page. F i g u r e 1 8 4 PAGE GOTO list
114 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Popup On Press POPUP ON to open the POPUP ON menu shown in Figure 185. Press a popup page in the menu to open the popup page and return to the currentpage. • M O R E Provides more options from the POPUP ON page. • ABORT Cancels t...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 115 Popup Off Press POPUP OFF to open the POPUP OFF menu shown in Figure 186. Press a popup page in the menu to close the selected popup page and return to thecurrent page. • M O R E Provides more options from the POPUP OFF page. • A...
116 Touch Panel Program Reference Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Move Edit Press MOVE EDIT in the PAGE menu to move the Edit bar to the bottom of thepage. Press the EDIT button to open the Edit bar as shown in Figure 187. Press MOVE EDIT again to move the EDIT button back to its original posit...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Touch Panel Program Reference 117 Snap Grid Press SNAP GRID to set up an invisible grid on the page. The grid allows you toeasily align buttons on the page. This command opens the SNAP GRID list shownin Figure 188. Set the grid frequency in pixels. Select the 1, ...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels AXCESS Programming 119 AXCESS Programming Overview You can program the Touch Panel to perform a wide variety of operations usingAXCESS Send_Commands and variable text commands. Use the commandsdescribed in this section along with the AXCESS Programming Language i...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels AXCESS Programming 123 S y s t e m S e n d _ C o m m a n d s ( c o n t . ) Command Description 'TPAGEON' Activate page tracking. Example: SEND_COMMAND TP,'TPAGEON'DEFINE_DEVICETP1 = 128 (*AMX Touch Panel*)TP2 = 129 (*AMX Touch Panel*)DEFINE_VARIABLETP1_BUFFER[100...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels AXCESS Programming 125 Colors and Programming Numbers The colors and their programming numbers are listed in Figure 190, and can beused to set the colors on buttons, sliders, gauges, and pages. The lowest colornumber represents the lightest color-specific display...
126 AXCESS Programming Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Font Styles and Programming Numbers Figure 191 lists the font styles and their numbers you can use to program the textfonts on buttons, sliders, gauges, and pages. The programming numbers areassigned consecutively when they are downloaded t...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels AXCESS Programming 127 Shorthand Send_Commands Figure 193 lists the shorthand send commands you can use with the Touch Panels.The shorthand command data is one-byte, non-ASCII format except for pages,passwords, text, and bitmap names. S h o r t h a n d S e n d _ ...
128 AXCESS Programming Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels S h o r t h a n d S e n d _ C o m m a n d s ( c o n t . ) Command Description “’@CFN’,<variable textaddress>,<color_number>” Set the ON feedback fill color to the specified color. <variable text address> = 1 - 255 <colo...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels AXCESS Programming 129 S h o r t h a n d S e n d _ C o m m a n d s ( c o n t . ) Command Description "'@CTN',<variable textaddress>,<color_number>" Sets the ON feedback text color to the specified color. <variable text address> = 1 - 255...
130 AXCESS Programming Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels S h o r t h a n d S e n d _ C o m m a n d s ( c o n t . ) Command Description '@PPF-<popup pagename>;<page name>' Deactivate a popup page on a Touch Panel page. <popup page name> = target popup page name <page name> ...
134 AXCESS Programming Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels C o l o r S e n d _ C o m m a n d s ( c o n t . ) Command Description 'CTOFF<variable textaddress>-<color_number>' Set the OFF feedback text color to the specified color. <variable text address> = 1 - 255 <color_number&...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels AXCESS Programming 137 Shorthand Variable Text Commands Figure 196 lists the shorthand variable text commands you can use with the TouchPanels. The shorthand command data is one-byte, non- ASCII format except forpages, passwords, text, and bitmap names. S h o r t...
138 AXCESS Programming Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels S h o r t h a n d v a r i a b l e t e x t c o m m a n d s ( c o n t . ) Command Description '%C1',<on-state fill color> = See Figure 190 for color numbers '%C2',<off-state fill color> = See Figure 190 for color numbers '%C3',<...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels AXCESS Programming 139 S h o r t h a n d v a r i a b l e t e x t c o m m a n d s ( c o n t . ) Command Description "'@ICO',<variable textaddress>,<icon>" Assign an icon to a button. The icon files are imported into theTPDesign 3 software progr...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels AXCESS Programming 141 Button String Commands Figure 197 lists string commands you can assign to buttons using the Touch Paneleditor. You select the PROPERTIES option in the Edit bar, press the target button,and enter the string command with the Touch Panel keybo...
Color Active Touch Panels Firmware Upgrades 143 Firmware Upgrades Overview Firmware upgrades allow you to install the latest available operating system foryour touch panel(s). This section provides the information required for removingold firmware ICs (Integrated Chips) and installing new firmware u...
144 Firmware Upgrades Color Active Touch Panels ODD EVE 199 CORP. 50-0940 AXT- P P G P J JP JP JP Memory IC sockets Erasable programmable read only memory(EPROM) sockets for firmware 5. Carefully pry the ICs out of their socket connectors with a non-conducting flat-blade tool and insert the two upgr...
Color Active Touch Panels Firmware Upgrades 145 5. Flip the touch panel facedown onto a soft cloth. Figure 199 shows theconnectors on the circuit card. EVEN ODD 8 1 1 5 J1 CORP. 1996 50-0941 REV.A AXU-CV 5 1 JP1 JP2 JP3 JP6 JP5 U3 U6 U4 U5 U21 U20 U22 U1 Y3 U11 U7 U9 U8 U10 P4 P3 U19 P5 SPKR1 Memory...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels 1MB Memory Upgrade 147 EXM-1MB Memory Upgrade Operation You must replace the CATP’s 256KB integrated circuit (IC) with the EXM-1MBMemory Upgrade ICs to increase the storage capacity for control pages andsymbols. The EXM-1MB Memory Upgrade consists of two 512KB me...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Color Guidelines 151 Color Guidelines Overview Use the guidelines in this section to determine the best colors to use for the TouchPanel pages you create. Colors Use any of the 88 colors shown in Figure 202 when you create Touch Panel pagesto ensure the objects o...
152 Color Guidelines Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels • Avoid using adjacent colors or background shades. When you use the samecolors or shades, the objects or text may be hard to see or read. The examplein Figure 204 shows good and bad contrasts. Bad contrast Good contrast • Do not use bright o...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Specifications 153 Specifications Overview This section describes the specifications for all Color Active-Matrix Touch Panels. AXT-CA and AXT-CV Figure 205 is a drawing of the AXT-CV and AXT-CA TiltScreen CATP. Figure 206lists the specifications. A X T - C A ( / ...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Technical Support 157 Technical Support Overview Prior to calling AMX for assistance, check your AXlink, power, and cableconnections, and the integrity of your software operating system. Reload thesoftware to see if something in the program is causing the problem...
Color Active-Matrix LCD Touch Panels Index 159 Index 1 1MB Memory Upgrade AXT-CV and AXT-CA, 147 A Adding a bargraph to a page, 49Adding a button, 30Adding a joystick on a page, 41Adding a page, 27Adding text to a button, 38Applications, 3AXCESS Programming Button String Commands, 141 $SL, 141$VI<...
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