Working With the Resource Manager
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TPDesign4 Touch Panel Design Software (v2.10 or higher)
Small Icons - lists the files in columns, with small file icons.
List - lists the files in a single column, with small file icons.
Details - lists the files with file size and image dimension descriptions.
Thumbnails - displays a thumbnail image of each file.
Resource Manager dialog - Images tab
The Images tab of the Resource Manager dialog provides a convenient way to import and preview all
image files to be used in your project. Use this tab as a "library" of every image file that will be used in
your project (for pages, popup pages, buttons and icons).
It is important to import all of your images to this tab first, before they are applied in the project, so that
you can maintain an organized profile of all images in the project, regardless of their context (i.e. button
state, page background, etc.)
Resource Manager dialog - Dynamic Images tab
The Dynamic Images tab of the Resource Manager dialog provides a convenient way to import and
preview all dynamic image files to be used in your project. Dynamic Images are images that exist on an
HTTP server or FTP server, external to the panel. This feature requires you to specify a URL in place of
image file.
Dynamic images can be refreshed at specified regular intervals or via the Panel > Refresh Dynamic
Images option.
Use this tab as a "library" of every dynamic image file that will be used in your project (for pages, popup
pages, buttons and icons). It is important to import all of your dynamic images to this tab first, before
they are applied in the project, so that you can maintain an organized profile of all images in the project,
regardless of their context (i.e. button state, page background, etc.)
Resource Manager dialog - Slots tab
The Slots tab of the Resource Manager dialog provides a convenient way to preview and manage all
image and sound files that are being used in your project. Where the Images and Sounds tabs contain
"libraries" of all Image and Sound files (even if they have not been assigned to a slot), the Slot tab lists
only those image and sound files that are currently assigned to a slot. Once a Image or Sound has been
assigned to a slot in the Resource Manager, it is considered to be an Icon.
All image and sound files must be assigned to a slot before they can applied to pages, popup pages and/
or buttons as Icons. Once an image or sound file has been assigned a slot, it is available for selection as
an icon through the Properties Control Window (States tab).
Each project has 2000 slots available.
The toolbar button in this tab contains several command options:
If you don't intend to use a image or sound file as an Icon, there is no need to assign
it to a slot (see See “Bitmaps vs. Icons” on page 201.).
•Select All Click to select all slots (1-2000). By default, the program limits you to 2000 slots per
panel. However, you can use up to 9900 slots per panel if necessary by changing the
maximum number of slots per panel.
•Move Use this option to move a slot assignment. First select a file / slot assignment, then
click on the target slot for the selected file and click Move. The selected file is moved
to the selected slot. Note that the Overwrite and Insert options affect how the Move
option works.