Using I!-Connectlinx - AMX i!-ConnectLinx Instruction Manual

Using i!-ConnectLinx

Little work is required to add i!-ConnectLinx to your existing NetLinx code. i!-ConnectLinx is
implemented as a NetLinx module. Adding the module definition and all it's parameters to your
code is all that is required.
In order to use i!-ConnectLinx, you need to program and define a series of actions in the NetLinx
Control System. The key to the i!-ConnectLinx engine is the virtual device,
the Module section on page 11. Support the actions you want executed remotely using this virtual
device.
Think of the virtual device,
program to respond to certain push channel from a touch panel; i!-ConnectLinx is exactly the same.
Let's say you want the user to be able to allow the ability to play and stop a VCR. Imagine you have
two touch panel buttons that do these functions; write code that responds to the pushes:
BUTTON_EVENT[TP,1]
{
PUSH:
{
}
}
BUTTON_EVENT[TP,2]
{
PUSH:
{
}
}
To expose these actions using i!-ConnectLinx, write the same code substituting the touch panel
device for your i!-ConnectLinx virtual device:
BUTTON_EVENT[vdvCLActions,1]
{
PUSH:
{
}
}
BUTTON_EVENT[vdvCLActions,2]
{
PUSH:
{
}
}
When the i!-ConnectLinx engine gets a request to play the VCR, i!-ConnectLinx will "push" the
button of the virtual device just like a user pushes a button on a touch panel. There is now only one
thing left to do: Tell the user which actions are which.
In order to expose an action for execution via i!-ConnectLinx, you need to support the
programming for the action, as we have just seen, and you need to tell i!-ConnectLinx what that
action is.
i!-ConnectLinx
vdvCLActions
PULSE[VCR,1]
PULSE{VCR,2]
PULSE[VCR,1]
PULSE{VCR,2]
, as a touch panel. Normally, you write your NetLinx
(* VCR Play *)
(* VCR Stop *)
(* VCR Play *)
(* VCR Stop *)
Using i!-ConnectLinx
, see
vdvCLActions
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