Setting State Properties; State Manager Context Menu - AMX MIO-R4 Operation/Reference Manual

Working With States

Setting State Properties

The ability to set state-oriented properties (including text/font settings, fill and border colors, bitmap,
slot and video fills) is provided via the States tab of the Properties Control window.
The State Manager window supports full Cut, Copy, Delete, Insert, Replace and Paste as well as drag and
drop capabilities.

State Manager context menu

Right mouse click on any thumbnail to open the State Manager context menu:
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For Multi-State General buttons, the different states (up to 256) are used to animate a button
from Off to On (Animate Time Up in the General tab), and back again to Off (Animate Time
Down in the General tab). When the button is turned on it will display all the assigned states
from first to last with a specified time interval between each state's display. When the button is
turned back off, the states will be displayed in reverse order. The interstate time intervals are
user definable in 1/10th second increments. A zero entry will automatically advance / retreat
to the ending / beginning state without displaying any intervening states.
For Multi-State Bargraph buttons, the level will directly reflect the displayed state. The user
will be able to set an allowable range within a bargraph that has states. Anything outside of
that range will not be represented by a state.
For buttons with multiple states, Send Commands can set the state number provided it is not a
level type button.
Note that because the thumbnails displayed in the State Manager window are scaled versions
of the button images, some visual distortion may occur. This is only a result of the scaling, and
does not represent distortion on the button itself.
Use Ctrl+click to select multiple individual button states.
Use Shift+click to select a range of states (between two selections).
Use Ctrl+A to select all button states.
• Size:
• Add States:
• Insert States:
• Quick Input:
• Cut/Copy/Paste:
• Replace:
• Delete:
• Select All:
• Reverse States:
• Set As Display State:
This option sets the size of the button thumbnail views as they
appear in the State Manager window.
This option opens the Add States dialog, which allows you to add
multiple states to the selected button (up to a total of 256 states).
This option opens the Insert States dialog, which allows you to insert
multiple states to the selected button. This option inserts the speci-
fied number of states directly after the selected (highlighted) state.
Click to open the Quick Input sub-menu, where you can specify how
to use the Quick Input feature (Current Property, Text or Disabled).
Use Quick Input to make fast edits to various page and button ele-
ments and properties.
Use these options to either cut, copy or paste a selected button
state to/from clipboard memory.
Use this option to replace the selected button state with the contents
of clipboard memory.
Use this option to delete the selected button state(s) from the but-
ton.
This option selects all states associated with the selected button.
This option reverses the order of states selected in the State Man-
ager window. The selected states do no have to be contiguous.
This option sets the state that is currently being displayed in the
Design View as the display state for the button.
TPDesign4 Touch Panel Design Software (v2.10 or higher)