Exporting Your Project As A Visualarchitect Template; Va Templates - Navigations As Pages; Va Templates - Logical Page Scroll Bar Elements; Va Templates - Logical Page Info Element - AMX MIO-R4 Operation/Reference Manual

Working With Templates

Exporting Your Project as a VisualArchitect Template

TPD4 allows you to export your TPD4 project as a VisualArchitect Template (*.VAT) file.
Select File > Export As VisualArchitect Template to open the Export As VisualArchitect Template
dialog. This dialog indicates errors and warnings relating to the VisualArchitect Template (*.VAT) file
that will be created from this project.
A VisualArchitect template is a TPD4 file complete with pages, popups and buttons, named in a manner
that VisualArchitect will understand the relationship between all of the elements. Then, based on the
established elements, VisualArchitect customizes the TPD4 file based on the navigation flow you
designed.
Any number of template files (*.TPT) can be created to constitute a template family, it is suggested you
create one for each resolution totaling 6. The resolutions and panel types are indicated in the Resolutions
and Panel Types table on page 171.
According to the table there are only 6 resolutions, the minimum number to make a template family, but
12 different panel types. You only need one template per resolution but you should consider instances
such as the MVP-8400(i), where the Pixels Per Inch is higher than the CV12 and the MVP-7500's
limited color depth. Both examples are situations where you might consider making specific templates
for those panel types.

VA Templates - Navigations as Pages

TPDesign4 modifies the export of panel projects as VisualArchitect templates to allow navigation
elements to be implemented as pages instead of popup pages for panel projects of device class "remote".
Also, TPDesign4 limits navigation elements of device class "panel" to pop-up pages only.

VA Templates - Logical Page Scroll Bar Elements

Logical pages contain two button elements that are used to implement a scrollbar.
These two buttons are named [scrollbartop] and [scrollbarbottom].

VA Templates - Logical Page Info Element

Logical pages must contain a [logicalinfobtn] button element that will be used to identify the first page
of a logical page group.
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Info Button: One and only one of the pages/popups in a Sub-Feature element may
contain a Info button which contains the page flip information for dis-
playing the Start element and may also contain an optional icon
image.
[info]buttonName
• buttonName - Unused; The button is deleted in the generated TP4
Title Button: The popups in a Sub-Feature element may contain one or more Title
buttons, whose text will be replaced with the name given to the Sub-
Feature element in the generated TP4 project.
[title]buttonName
• buttonName - The button name that will be used in the generated
This button should contain the list of individual logical pages belonging to the logical page
collection, starting with itself.
A logical page that is itself the only page of a logical page group must still contain a
[logicalinfobtn] button element containing at least one page flip (to itself).
project.
TP4 project.
TPDesign4 Touch Panel Design Software (v2.10 or higher)