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- Page 1 Guide To RC5000 Setup Version 2.0 For the Marantz RC5000 and RC5000i...
- Page 2 THE PERFORMANCE OR USE OF THE MATERIALS DESCRIBED IN THIS MANUAL. The information in this manual may be subject to changes without prior notice. The RC5000 and the RC5000i logos are trademarks of Marantz America, Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or organizations.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
How do you save a configuration? How do you open CCF Files that are stored on your PC? When RC5000 Setup is not running. When RC5000 Setup is running. How do you download a configuration into an RC5000? Fundamentals Update the Operating System! - Page 4 Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. What is the Updater? Updating You can always return to the factory configuration. Using the Programming Window Basic Definitions Using Tree and Panel Views To Examine a CCF. Exploring Tree View...
- Page 5 Table of Contents The Gallery Using The Gallery How can I create my own gallery? Programming Properties Introduction to Properties Active, Inactive, Selected and Unselected The Action List Learning & Macros Step by Step Restrictions To Jumps Home System Properties Home - Create Your Own or Use Auto Alias? Programming Home Manually Use Automatic Aliasing to Create Home Buttons...
- Page 6 Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Table of Contents Active and Inactive Icons Location/Size Colors — For Active, Inactive, Selected and Unselected Text Frame Properties Programming with the Default CCF Basing Your Design on the Marantz Default CCF’s...
- Page 7 Table of Contents Grouping Widgets in Frames Working With Parents, Children and Siblings Custom CCF Programming Introduction Merging Files Modify the Gallery Customize Default Panels Alphabetical Index...
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Page 8: Getting Started
RC5000 Setup requires a clear understanding of the capabilities of the RC5000.You should read the User Manual for the RC5000i (even if you have an old RC5000- it can be down- loaded from the Marantz web site) and practice using and programming the RC5000 stand- alone, before considering using RC5000 Setup for anything more than a way to save your work. -
Page 9: What Can You Do With Rc5000 Setup
You can change the look of most of what you see on an RC5000’s touchscreen. However, part of what you see is the fundamental operating system of the RC5000. At the top of the screen, the menu bars display animated menus, navigation and access to the Setup panels.You cannot use this portion of the screen to control your components. -
Page 10: What Is A Ccf File
“ccf” for a configuration file including IR codes, macros, animations, button art etc. A CCF file includes everything an RC5000 needs to operate a given system. The actual letters “ccf” refer to the early developers hope that the RC5000 would be called the Cabernet. -
Page 11: Installing Rc5000 Setup
We recommend that you close all programs before installing RC5000 Setup. When installing directly from our web site: 1. Click on the RC5000 Setup link and either execute in place and skip to step 4, or down- load rc5000rb.exe to a folder on your hard drive. -
Page 12: Loading And Saving
RC5000 Setup will remember your choice in any future programming ses- sion. Should you purchase a new RC5000i or help a friend with an old RC5000, you can always change RC5000 Setup to the alternate memory size with this procedure. -
Page 13: Uploading From Rc5000 To Your Pc
Uploading from RC5000 to your PC 1. Start RC5000 Setup. 2. Connect one end of the RC5000 serial cable to your RC5000 and connect the other end to a serial port of your PC. 3. Get in the habit of choosing New from the File menu before Uploading. RC5000 Setup can merge the uploaded file into an open file.This is useful sometimes;... - Page 14 RC5000, wait until it beeps twice and try again. You can cancel the upload at any time by clicking on the Cancel button. It is best not to touch your RC5000's screen or use any of your RC5000's direct access buttons, while uploading is in progress.
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Page 15: How Do You Save A Configuration
As... from the file menu. A conventional Windows navigational window will appear, enabling you to name the file, put it in the location you want etc. This shows the root folder of RC5000 Setup in C:\Program Files. Type in the file name for your Use the create new folder button to create configuration. -
Page 16: How Do You Open Ccf Files That Are Stored On Your Pc
When RC5000 Setup is running. Warning! RC5000 Setup will only open one file at a time. If you already have a file open and you try to open another, RC5000 Setup will ask you if you want to Merge the new file with the currently open configuration or replace it? -
Page 17: How Do You Download A Configuration Into An Rc5000
How do you download a configuration into an RC5000? 1. Start RC5000 Setup. 2. Connect one end of the RC5000 serial cable to your RC5000 and connect the other end to a serial port of your PC. 3. Make sure you have a configuration in RC5000 Setup either by uploading one from your RC5000 (see How do you upload a configuration from my RC5000?) or by loading one from a file (see How do you open a CCf stored on your PC?). -
Page 18: Fundamentals
RC5000. If you have, choose Continue. If the RC5000 is un-modified, choose skip (it’s faster). It is best not to touch your RC5000’s screen or use any of your RC5000’s direct access buttons, while updating is in progress. -
Page 19: Using The Programming Window
Fundamentals Using the Programming Window Like any Windows program, menus appear Note that there are when you click on a Menu title. For example, keyboard shortcuts here’s what you’ll see when you click on File. for most of the commonly used menu choices. -
Page 20: Basic Definitions
Infrared codes, jump to other panels, and perform macros. Buttons can be customized with your own labels, colors, and artwork. Buttons are invisible on an RC5000, unless they have at least one action in their action list (this can be something as simple as a .1 second delay). -
Page 21: Using Tree And Panel Views To Examine A Ccf
Fundamentals Using Tree and Panel Views To Examine a CCF. Those three “divisions” that appear in your tree view represent the three sides of your remote control as accessed by the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click on the + sign next to Home and the display changes. -
Page 22: Exploring Tree View
(not DEVICES or MACRO GROUPS), you can SELECT change their order in the menus of the RC5000 by clicking and dragging them up and down the list (or holding down the Control key and using the up and down arrows of your keyboard).This changes the order in which they appear in the RC5000 menus. -
Page 23: Exploring Panel View
Fundamentals Exploring Panel View You can any panel in panel view with a single click anywhere on the panel.The panel SELECT selected will have a highlighted title bar. Any other panel’s title bar will be dull. When a panel is , it has a SELECTED highlighted title bar. -
Page 24: Pull Down Menus
Open Configuration opens the navigational window enabling you to open any ccf file on your computer. If a ccf is already open, RC5000 Setup will offer to Merge or Replace the current configuration. See page 16. Upload from RC5000 will upload the ccf from a connected RC5000. If a ccf is already open, RC5000 Setup will offer to Merge or Replace the current config- uration. -
Page 25: The View Menu
Run Emulator loads the current configuration into a PC simulation of the RC5000. See page 28. Gallery opens a window with all of the Marantz widgets. You can simply click and drag any widget onto an open panel in panel view. -
Page 26: The Device Menu
Has Separator simply places a separating line above the selected macro group when it is viewed on the RC5000’s macro menu. See page 49. The Settings Menu Display Grid determines whether you will see a grid when you first open a panel or not. -
Page 27: Right Click For Context Menus
Fundamentals Right Click for Context Menus The right mouse button offers another way to access the menu commands. By clicking on an item in either tree view or panel view with the RIGHT mouse button, you will see a list of same menu items you saw in the pull down menus. -
Page 28: Using The Emulator
Transparent function makes the Emulator run a little faster. *Note on Timing: The emulator is fairly close to the real RC5000 in behavior. However, the PC does have more memory than a real RC5000, so timing of jumps, macros, etc. -
Page 29: Making Screenshots Of The Emulator
PRINT SCREEN button which will save the currently displayed screen of RC5000 Emulator in a Windows bitmap file. RC5000 Emulator will tell you the full path of the file it saves (the screen shots usually go into directory C:\ProntoScreens). RC5000 Emulator saves up to 100 screen- shots before it starts the same filenames again. -
Page 30: The Gallery
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. The Gallery The gallery is a collection of all of the widgets Marantz used to create the default configuration. It makes creating new control panels from scratch a very pleasant operation. If you like, you can add your own art to the galler;... -
Page 31: How Can I Create My Own Gallery
RC5000 Setup loads the gallery from <install>\gallery.ccf, where <install> is the directory where RC5000 Setup has been installed. Simply load gallery.ccf as a regular CCF (which it is), make modifications like you would do for any other configuration, and save the modified configuration back in gallery.ccf.The next time RC5000 Setup is started, it will use the modified gallery. -
Page 32: Programming Properties
IR code, or be a macro and perform a whole list of actions.The action list is the place to learn Infrared codes to program macros. Note All macros can be used on your RC5000, but only macro buttons in a macro group panel can be edited on your RC5000. - Page 33 The name of the group enables you to save is next (the TV device memory by simply group), then the panel telling the RC5000 to go name (channels), and do whatever is pro- finally the button name grammed in any button (ON).
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Page 34: Learning & Macros Step By Step
DVD device group, the Menu panel, and the Setup button). Note When your RC5000 is executing an action list and comes across an alias, the entire action list refered to at that alias is executed. In this way, you can nest macros inside other macros. - Page 35 • Learn IR: click on this button to learn an IR code using your RC5000 connected to your PC. Learned IR codes are shown in the action list preceded by a [C]. Here’s how to learn an Infrared command from the component’s original remote control:...
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Page 36: Restrictions To Jumps
4. Repeat steps to add up to 255 actions to the action list. 5. If you want your RC5000 to “jump to” a specific panel during the action list, press the jump button. A navigational window will pop up, enabling you to choose any panel in the ccf to jump to. -
Page 37: Home System Properties
SELECTED The Test IR button enables you to test any selected command in the action list if the RC5000 is connected to the PC via the serial cable.This is not the most reliable way to test IR commands, since it relies on Windows to keep timing accurate. -
Page 38: Home - Create Your Own Or Use Auto Alias
Device menu. You can choose to make your PC programmed RC5000 a little easier to work with by deciding to program Home manually, rather than continuing to allow the RC5000 to program them for you. -
Page 39: Configuration Is Write Protected
256 colors (this is also called “8 bit color”). RC5000 Setup can convert a 256 color graphic into a 4 color graphic, but not one with thousands of colors.Typically, you can convert a bitmap graphic with thousands or millions of colors to a 256 color by using the graphics program Save As command. -
Page 40: Programming Left/Right And Direct Access Buttons Globally
Anything you program as a step in this action list will be executed whenever the user selects this device via the RC5000’s Device Menu. If the Home System Properties “Home Panels are Write Protected” checkbox is checked and any of the home panels are named “home” (all lower case), then Automatic Aliasing is enabled and the Device Action programmed will also be triggered when a user presses a home panel button. -
Page 41: Widgets, Buttons And Frames
Buttons send Infrared codes, jump to other panels, and perform macros. Buttons can be cus- tomized with your own labels, colors, and artwork. Buttons are invisible on an RC5000 (except in Learn and Label modes), unless they have at least one action in their action list (this can be something as simple as a .1 second delay). -
Page 42: Button Properties
Selected (it’s just been pressed and it is now executing the action list) or Unselected (it is just a pretty button sitting on a panel, waiting for someone to push it). In RC5000 Setup you can use Selected and Unselected as feedback to a user. By placing a different icon or programming a change in a button’s text or background color when a button is Selected (just been pressed),... -
Page 43: Labels/Names Are Invisible Unless You Choose A Font
Active (you’ve already programmed the button). In the default configura- tions in this new version of RC5000 Setup, the same icons are used for Active and Inactive. Instead of consuming memory with additional art, we opted to indicate whether a button is Active or Inactive via the color of the text.We used White text for Active buttons and Light... -
Page 44: Location/Size
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Location/Size The location windows enable you to type in a new location accurately, without dragging the button around the panel. Specify a location by typing in the new location (in pixels, remember the usable panel is... -
Page 45: Colors - For Active, Inactive, Selected And Unselected Text
The four colors within RC5000 Setup are Black,White, Dark Grey and Light Grey. You can easi- ly make up your own standard of colors to indicate the button’s state. -
Page 46: Frame Properties
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Frame Properties After looking at the nine tabs of Button Properties, viewing Frame Properties is a joy.There are only four properties to examine for frames. Name, Icon, Location/Size and Colors. All operate identically to button properties. -
Page 47: Programming With The Default Ccf
Basing Your Design on the Marantz Default CCF’s The default ccf configurations offer you a convenient and fast way to customize your remote control.They are especially useful for those of you with Marantz components. Here’s the process of programming using the Default Configuration. -
Page 48: Set Home System Properties
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Start with the 2 Megabyte File There are two default configurations in your RC5000 Setup Samples folder. One is designed to fit in an RC5000’s 380kb free memory.The other consumes 984kb of free memory. However, it is a simple and quick process to delete the items you will not use for either remote control.The... -
Page 49: Viewing And Changing Device "Type
A template device will not appear separator. in your RC5000 until you utilize the built in Mode Menu to ADD the device. Making a device a template erases any Aliases programmed into any of the device’s buttons. -
Page 50: Deleting Devices
Copying and pasting devices is a powerful way to avoid lots of laborious jump to panel program- ming for devices with Tab navigation. Here’s the best way to modify an existing Marantz template with tab navigation for a non-Marantz component. - Page 51 8. Double click on any tab to open its button properties. You can see that the jumps are all intact. RC5000 Setup has automatically copied, updated and renamed all of the jumps within the copied device group.You don’t have to reprogram jumps.
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Page 52: Programming Tips
— it’s the one displayed when the group is selected from the Device or Macro Group Menu on the RC5000. Here’s how to change panel scrolling order. 1. Select the panel you want to move in the tree view on the left side of the RC5000 Setup window. -
Page 53: Adding Empty Panels
If you don’t hold down the shift key, you will get a new panel with the Marantz default artwork in it. For home panels, Marantz provides the standard eleven button home. For devices, Marantz provides a total- ly empty panel with no artwork in it (however, you could create a default device panel with your own art in it, see page 58). -
Page 54: Resizing Widgets
Windows bitmap file. RC5000 Setup can load any Windows bitmap file that has 1, 4, or 8 bits per pixel and is at most 240 by 219 pixels (the size of a panel). RC5000 Setup will automatically convert a color bitmap into a grayscale version more suitable for display on your RC5000. -
Page 55: Working With Grids
• To create an evenly spaced grid, use the Auto Grid... menu item. • By default RC5000 Setup snaps the top left corner of a button or frame to the nearest grid location. However, you can instruct RC5000 Setup to snap to any corner or the cen- ter of a button or frame using the Snap Mode submenu of the Grid menu. -
Page 56: Grouping Widgets In Frames
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Grouping Widgets in Frames RC5000 Setup does not have a grouping command, yet. However, you can group a number of widgets onto one frame, which makes complex arrangements far easier to move around, copy and paste. -
Page 57: Custom Ccf Programming
Custom CCF Programming Custom CCF Programming Introduction Many users have found these two websites helpful while creating a custom interface. http://www.remotecentral.com http://www.prontoedit.com You can choose to download ccf’s from these sites, merge them with your own and modify them for your use. You can use them for ideas and create your own interface with your own unique art and naviga- tional structure from scratch. -
Page 58: Modify The Gallery
RC5000 Setup loads the gallery from <install>\gallery.ccf, where <install> is the directory where RC5000 Setup has been installed. Simply load gallery.ccf as a regular CCF (which it is), make modifications like you would do for any other configuration, and save the modified configuration back in gallery.ccf.The next time RC5000 Setup is started, it will use the modified gallery. -
Page 59: Alphabetical Index
Index Alphabetical Index This index is hyperlinked. Simply hover your mouse over the next to the entry you PAGE NUMBER want to jump to. The cursor will change to a pointing finger. Click; and you will be hyperjumped to the correct page. Color 45 Communicating 13 Configuration is Write Protected 39... - Page 60 Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Home Panels are write protected 38 Home System Properties 37 Edit Menu 24 Empty Panel 53 Emulator 28 Escape Key 23 Icons 43 Inactive 32 icons for 43 Installing 11 PC Requirements 11...
- Page 61 Previous Panel Jump 36 Nested Jumps 36 Programming Window 19 New Features 18 Properties 32 Next Panel Jump 36 NOIR 40 RC5/6 codes 35 RC5000 System Properties 37 Opening 16 RC5000i 12 RC-MM 35 Replace 16 Resizing Widgets 54 Right Click 27...
- Page 62 Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Troubleshooting Serial Ports 13 Troubleshooting source switching 53 Tutorial 18 Saving 15 TV Onl 41 Screenshots 29 Scroll Arrow 39 Scroll Down Jump 36 Scroll Up Jump 36 Select Sub-Menu 56...