TPDesign4 Program Overview
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PDesign4 Touch Panel Design Program
Toolbars
All toolbars in TPDesign4 are dockable, so they can be arranged within the application window. To
undock any toolbar, double-click anywhere inside the toolbar (but not on a toolbar button). Double-
click again to dock the toolbar. To move the toolbar, click and drag using the handle (the single
vertical bar) at the far-left side of the toolbar.
 To view a brief description of each toolbar button, place the mouse cursor directly over a
button, without clicking.
 Try placing the Main toolbar vertically, along the right side of the Workspace Navigator.
This configuration is especially efficient in terms of cursor movement back and forth
between the toolbar buttons and the Design View Window(s).
Design View Windows
Design View windows represent pages or popup pages in the panel file you are creating. They
provide a canvas upon which you may place buttons of any size that will fit within the confines of
the windows. An enforced limit of 15 Design View windows can be open at any time. If you should
attempt to exceed that number, the page or popup page that is the oldest will be automatically
closed. No data will be lost through this action, as only the view to the data is closed. Usually from
1 to 10 windows open at a time is the maximum number that is practical to work with.
 Since Design View windows represent the pages on the panel themselves, Design Views
that represent pages are not resizable.
 Popup pages are resizable through the Properties Control by adjusting their Left, Top,
Width or Height properties. Alternatively, you can set their size and dimensions manually
by first enabling the Show Popup Pages option in the Page menu.
This option opens the Select Popup Pages to Show dialog, where you can select the
FIG. 3 Example Design View Window (with function codes showing)
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