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Graphics Board Display
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2005 Data Display Ltd
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Publication details:
Title:
Beacon Sign Co. Graphics Board Display User Manual
Issue:
1
Issue Date:
26-Jan-04
Part Number:
DDJ07850001
P. O. Number:
Produced by:
Product Support Department
Data Display Ltd
Deerpark Industrial Estate
Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Ireland
DDJ07850001
User Manual
4297
Great Miller)
26-Jan-04
Display User Manual
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- Page 1 The information in this document is provided for reference only. While every effort has been made to make sure it is accurate and complete, Data Display Ltd does not accept any liability arising out of the application or use of the information or products described herein.
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Display User Manual Table of Contents Introduction ............................3 Scope ............................... 3 Purpose ..............................3 System ..............................3 Hardware ............................4 Unpacking ..............................4 Installation ..............................4 Display Panel Wiring ..........................5 Software .............................6 System Requirements ..........................6 Conventions used in this Manual ......................6 Installation .............................. -
Page 3: Introduction
Display Board correctly. System The Beacon Sign Co. Display system comprises of a back to back Graphics Display Board and the GRAFIT graphics software package. The Display is 32 pixels high by 96 pixels wide and uses ultra- bright red LED technology. -
Page 4: Hardware
Display User Manual Hardware Unpacking Carefully remove the items from their package and store the packaging safely. After unpacking, inspect the contents for any damage that may have occurred during shipment. In the event of Technical Support' damage, refer to the ' section of this manual. -
Page 5: Display Panel Wiring
Display User Manual 2.3 Display Board Wiring The Display face consists of 4 rows by 6 columns of GB160815 Display Boards. Each Board consists of an 8 high x 16 wide pixel matrix of ultra-bright red LEDs with each pixel consisting of a single LED. -
Page 6: Software
Display User Manual 3 Software The Display Boards are operated using the text and graphic based GRAFIT software package. The user can edit general text messages, time and date messages as well as draw and create their own single frame graphics or multi-frame sequences and animations. This chapter contains information to enable the installation and configuration of the software. -
Page 7: Installation
Display User Manual Installation The GRAFIT software package is supplied on floppy disk. To install the software, do the following steps: 1. Insert the GRAFIT Software Disk into your floppy drive. Start Settings|Control Panel 2. Click the button, then select 3. -
Page 8: Comms Selection
Display User Manual Comms Selection While the Display is primarily controlled remotely over a network using the Modem installed in the Control Box, it may also be controlled directly from a local PC or Laptop via RS232. To control the Display locally using a Laptop with the GRAFIT software, a 3 core, RS232 cable will be required with a 9-way or 25-way D Type connector at one end to connect to the COM Port 1 on the Laptop. -
Page 9: Grafit 1.18Ss Software
Display User Manual 4 GRAFIT 1.18ß Software © Getting Started 'Start|Programs|Shortcut' To start GRAFIT, select to GRAFIT.EXE. Exiting from the Software There are three ways to exit from the software: 'Frame/ Exit ' 'Yes' 1. Use the normal menu command. Click on and click on the button of the dialog box. -
Page 10: Screen Layout And Symbols
Display User Manual Screen Layout and Symbols This section gives details of the Graphic User Interface (GUI) for the GRAFIT application. The components of the GUI are the Caption Bar, the Speed Bar, the Menu Bar, the Canvas (the main area of the window) and the Status Line at the bottom of the screen. -
Page 11: The Speed Bar
Display User Manual 4.4.2 The Speed Bar The Speed Bar consists of five buttons that are used to directly access Frame Menu options. Clears or Blanks current frame Previous/ Next Frame Load frame from a file on disk Play animation Saves frame to a file on disk Stop animation Undo latest changes to image... -
Page 12: The Menu Bar
Display User Manual 4.5 The Menu Bar Frame This menu provides options for dealing with single bitmaps only. Only the working frame is effected using options in this menu. Clear Blanks/clears the current frame. Delete This option allows you to delete any frame from the frame list/sequence provided that there are two or more frames in the sequence. - Page 13 Display User Manual Load BUTTONS continued… CANCEL Exit dialog without loading file. NETWORK Lists networked Drives where images may be stored. Save This option 'Save' under 'Frame' provides the facility to save any changes to the bitmap or system, e.g. pause rate, of this application as a '.BMP' file. A '.BMP' file is a single bitmap.
- Page 14 Display User Manual Setup continued … Effect: Clicking with the left mouse button on this field pulls down a menu from which the user can select an effect for the bitmap frame being worked on. The ON effect is how the frame is drawn onto the Display page and the OFF effect is how the frame is drawn off the Display page.
- Page 15 Display User Manual This menu provides options for dealing with animations or sequences of frames. All AAnim working frames are effected using options in this menu. An ‘Animation’ is a group of saved frames (*.frm). Clear Blanks/clears the all frames. Load Selecting 'Load' under the 'Anim' menu opens a dialog box from which the user may select a ''.FRM'' file only.
- Page 16 Display User Manual Join This option works like load except the loaded animation/frame sequence is joined at the current frame. Save This option 'Save' under 'Anim' provides the facility to save any changes to the of sequence of bitmaps or the system e.g. pause rate, of this application as a '.FRM' file.
- Page 17 Display User Manual Anim Continued … Frame + Clicking with the left mouse button on 'Frame + ' replaces the current bitmap frame with the following bitmap frame for viewing. This option is also available as the sixth button on the speed bar. Play Clicking with the left mouse button on 'Play' will show each frame, of the '.FRM' file, in sequence one after the other at a rate depending on the delay until the user...
- Page 18 Display User Manual Schedule Continued … Setup FIELDS Continued … Animation list: This is a complete list of the animation sequence or .FRM files in the schedule. On each line in the list you have the path and filename of the animation followed by four parameters as follows: C = Which cycles the animation is to appear in, all cycles or every second or third cycle or whatever.
- Page 19 Display User Manual Options This menu provides Display specific options. Send This menu option is used to confirm the transmission settings. The 'Reset before sending' 'Use compression' and the settings must always be checked. Display This menu option opens the Display setup dialog, which is used to select what type of Display you are connected to and the communications parameters associated with this connection.
- Page 20 Display User Manual Switches: This is a list of software switch settings as follows: Options|Display Continued … Reset Display Set update/test mode back to normal and clear down all the memory in the Display. Some Displays will then show the time on the bottom line until the next time information is sent to them.
- Page 21 Display User Manual System This menu provides options for changing system settings such as communications parameters, modem setup, Display settings etc. Ports This dialog provides facilities for setting up, testing and monitoring the system communications ports. For this software package, the settings of COM1 must be set as shown below and be available on the Host PC.
- Page 22 Display User Manual Options|System| Ports Continued … MONITOR Popup a monitor dialog for the selected port. This is a floating dialog, which provides a means of viewing bytes at the port in HEX, ASCII or a combination of both. This dialog is only intended for use during initial system tests or for demonstration purposes.
- Page 23 Display User Manual Options|System| Ports Wait states: Continued … The number of wait states between each consecutive poll during a poll loop. ICONS Each of the icons represents a COMn: port. To select a port you just click on its' icon.
- Page 24 Display User Manual Options|System| This option allows the user to edit the Modem setup parameters. Modems This option provides the facility to save any changes to the configuration or system Save of this application. Event Log This option provides a dialog box to show the event log day by day. By entering a particular date, the first 1000 events occurring on that day will be listed.
- Page 25 Display User Manual Setup … This option is provided for system developers only. It is used for configuring system specific settings. As would be expected it is password protected to prevent unqualified users from tampering with crucial system settings. The options listed here vary from system to system. Edit This menu provides the option for altering complete bitmaps or sections of bitmaps selected with the grab-tool...
- Page 26 Display User Manual View This menu provides the tools for altering bitmap contents. Tools Clicking on this option produces a tool bar on the screen. The tool bar has a caption and ten tool icons on it and a close gadget. The caption or horizontal bar on top of the tool bar is used to position the bar anywhere on the screen by pressing down on the left mouse button and move the mouse to the required position of the tool bar...
- Page 27 Display User Manual View continued … Tools continued … By clicking on the pencil icon button this allows the user to draw freehand. The user must press down on the mouse button to draw with the mouse. On release of the mouse button the mouse arrow will cease to act as a pencil.
- Page 28 Display User Manual View continued … Tools Note: continued … - There is no erase facility with this package. A suggested method of erasing would be to use tool with the same color as the background of the frame and draw over the error.
- Page 29 Display User Manual View continued … Lines Clicking on this option produces a lines bar on the screen. The lines bar allows you to choose the thickness of line for a line drawing operation. Palette Clicking on this option produces a palette bar on the screen. This bar has one button icon for each color available and two rectangles one inside the other to represent the selected background and foreground colors.
- Page 30 Display User Manual Text continued … Fonts Available under this option are options to change font, font style and font size and effects. Upon clicking on this option, the options box will appear and offer the above effects. When selection is completed click on 'OK' to leave options box and change to selected fonts, effects, sizes or types.
- Page 31 Display User Manual Text continued … Fonts Effects: continued … An 'underline' and a 'cross out' effect enable the user to write underlined text or write text to appear as if it had a line drawn through the center of it. The effect is selected by clicking on the box along side the required effect to leave a mark in it.
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Page 32: Examples
Display User Manual 5 Examples 5.1 How to Setup a Graphics Frame. 1. With the Options|System|Ports|COMn|Settings menu, setup the Displays’ COM port. 1. 2. Connect the host PC to the Display, then power up the Display. 3. The Display shows its communications setting on power up Address, Global Address, Baud rate etc. -
Page 33: Displaying The Date, Time Or Temperature
Display User Manual 3. Mode 2: This mode is got by right clicking anywhere on the current graphics frame to popup the Text Setup Dialog which is a standard text editor with which you can create your text or paste it from the Clipboard in the current Font. -
Page 34: Notes On Importing Clipart
Display User Manual Notes on importing Clipart Although GRAFIT has all the basic features required to create your own graphics images it usually makes more sense to import your graphics from a public domain Clipart library or some other free source of images. -
Page 35: Trouble Shooting
If checking these items does not locate the problem, there may be a problem with your Windows setup, computers communications port, or some other computer malfunction. If not, notify your local Data Display Technical Support. DDJ07850001 26-Jan-04 Page 35... -
Page 36: Effects
Display User Manual 7 Effects 7.1 ON/OFF Effects Each frame you send to a Display can have an on/off command/effect which you setup by clicking on the Frame|Setup menu. The complete set of commands available is as follows: Jump Immediately places the frame onto the Display as is. Use: On and Off Command Vertical/Up Scroll up vertically the next frame onto the Display. -
Page 37: Character Fonts
Holbrook, N.Y. 11741 Tel#: (631)218-2130 x 23 Fax #: (631)218-2140 E-mail: techsupport@ddusa.com Make sure to quote the Data Display Reference No. in the Product Specifications section of this Manual and the Serial No of the Display. DDJ07850001 26-Jan-04 Page 37... -
Page 38: Specifications
Display User Manual 9 Specifications CHARACTERISTIC VALUE Display Features Model GB-32x96-UBR Data Display Reference No. DDJ07850001 Display Type Graphics Board, 32 pixels high by 96 pixels wide Display Board Type GB160815-UBR Character Size Variable LEDs per Pixel Pixel Pitch 15mm... - Page 39 Data Display Ltd Unit A Unit B Fans Light Sensor HWLDR Board 12V 150W PSUs Logic Board Cable Entry Viewed from Front with Display Panels removed. DDJ05996001 7-Jan-03 Page 39 of...
- Page 40 Data Display Ltd ∆ατα Φλοω Unit A Unit B Logic Board 1. Data is transmitted to Logic Board via Modem in Control Box (White Cable). 2. Data is transmitted from Logic Board to bottom right-hand Display Panel. 3. Data is transmitted across the bottom line via ribbon cables.