Embedded Applications - Crestron TPMC-4XG Operation Manual

Crestron TPMC-4XG
Operations Guide – DOC. 6655B
MultiByte International Characters
Most languages use a single byte of eight bits to represent a character, e.g. English,
French, German, Hebrew, Russian, Thai, etc.
Multibyte character fonts require more than the usual eight bits to specify a
character. This occurs when a language has more than 256 characters (2
For example, Chinese fonts contain several thousand characters. Other multibyte
languages include Japanese and Korean.
There are two separate applications with multibyte characters – static text on buttons
and indirect text on buttons. No Isys touchpanel firmware changes are required in
either case.
Indirect text on a button is entered in VisionTools Pro-e and the actual string to be
displayed is entered in SIMPL Windows. As of this publication date only completely
single byte or completely multibyte strings may be entered or they will not be
compiled correctly in SIMPL Windows. In other words, you cannot enter Chinese
characters interspersed with numbers. You can enter Chinese characters or numbers
in separate strings or you can pad each number with "\x00" to make it multibyte and
then combine it with Chinese characters in the same string.
Of course you can always use the workaround of showing a graphic that displays the
string but it is not dynamic. To compile and use multibyte characters it is essential
that the operating system understand the language. Windows XP and Vista are
available in many international languages and add-on software is available for other
versions of Windows.

Embedded Applications

The following third-party or in-house applications are embedded in a VT Pro-e
TPMC-4XG project. (Refer to illustration on the following page.)
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Calibration
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Keyboard
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MJPEG Viewer
The embedded applications have the following features:
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All embedded applications listed in the VT Pro-e ProjectView
workspace are created by default for a new TPMC-4XG project.
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All applications are created at project-level – one instance per project.
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The static position and size of each application can be viewed from any
page.
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Four analog joins can be assigned to each application to dynamically
change position and size.
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One digital feedback join or one analog join can be assigned to
dynamically show/hide an application.
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