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PDesign4 Touch Panel Design Software (v2.10 or higher)
The options in this tab include:
Setting a Power Up Page
Use the Power-up page option in the Panel Setup Information tab of the Project Properties dialog to
specify a particular page in your project to be displayed when the panel is turned on:
1. Select File > Project Properties to open the Project Properties dialog.
2. In the Panel Setup Information tab, click the down arrow next to the Power up page field to display
a list of all of the pages in this project.
3. Select the page that you want to be used as the Power-up page from this list.
4. Click Apply to apply this change.
Setting Power Up Popup Pages
Use the Power-up popups option in the Panel Setup Information tab of the Project Properties dialog to
specify one or more popup pages in your project to be displayed over the Power up page when the panel
is turned on:
1. Select File > Project Properties to open the Project Properties dialog.
2. In the Panel Setup Information tab, click the green Plus sign icon below the Power up popups field
to invoke the Add Power Up Popup dialog, presenting a list of all popup pages in the active Project
(FIG. 23).
3. Select a popup page that you want to be displayed over the Power-up page from this list and click
OK.
4. The selected popup page is indicated in the Power up popups field.
To display multiple popups over the Power up page, repeat steps 2 and 3 to select another
popup. If you select more than one popup page, you can specify the display order via the up/
down arrow buttons below the Power up popups field. The popup at the top of the list is the
first to be displayed.
Project Properties dialog - Panel Setup Information tab
• Refresh Frequency: Select the desired refresh frequency for the selected panel, from the drop-down list of
supported refresh frequencies (based on the selected panel).
• Marquee Speed: Sets the speed of motion for Marquee text (1=slowest, 8 = fastest; default = 1).
• Panel Strings: Use these three fields to specify text strings to appear on the panel, during these
three conditions (Startup, Wakeup and Sleep).
For example, if you entered "Hello!" for the Wakeup string, the panel will send this
string to the NetLinx Master on wakeup.
Note: In order to receive strings from a device, the programmer typically creates a
buffer or adds a DATA_EVENT/STRING: handler for the device. This will cause an
RXON command to be sent to the device, then the master will pass the strings from
the device.
• Power up page: Click the down-arrow to select a particular page in your project to be displayed when
the panel is turned on, from a drop-down list of all pages currently saved in this
project.
See the Setting a Power Up Page section on page 25 for details.
• Power up popups: This field indicates the Power-Up popup pages that will appear over the Power up
page when the panel is turned on.
See the Setting Power Up Popup Pages section on page 25 for details.
• Inactivity page: Click the down arrow to select which page to flip to after the specified period of inac-
tivity (set on the touch panel).
• Feedback blink rate: If you are using blinking button feedback in your project, use this field to specify the
blink frequency, in 1/10th-second increments (default = 5).