Widgets, Buttons And Frames - Marantz RC5000 Manual

Suggestion It is often convenient to copy the TV device group, rename the copy "TV
Only" and program the direct access Vol- and Vol+ with the TV's own volume
up and down IR commands.Thus, you can watch TV with Surround Sound by
selecting the device group "TV" (in this device group the Vol- and Vol+ action
lists are empty, so the RC5000 executes the Home System Properties Vol- and
Vol+ action lists programmed with your surround receiver's volume up and
down IR commands).When you select the "TV Only" device group, pressing
either Vol- or Vol+ issues the TV's IR volume up and down.

Widgets, Buttons and Frames

Widgets
- Our petname for the doohickies you arrange on a panel.These are formally defined
as either Frames or Buttons.
Buttons
- A widget that will do something once programmed and pressed by the user.
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). Don't use buttons to display text or graphics, you will have to
program them with an action just to make them visible. Frames are a much quicker way to dis-
play text and graphics.
Frames
- A widget that is visible, without an action list. Frames are very quickly and conve-
niently programmed to display background artwork and text messages.They cannot be pro-
grammed to do anything, since they have no action list.They also have the ability to link a num-
ber of widgets into one, making moving complex arrangements much easier and less fussy with-
in RC5000 Setup.
Suggestion Open your "tutorial" ccf and expand Home. Double click on one of the panels
in home.The Marantz home panel has both frames and buttons.
Double click on this button to open a
button properties window.
Double click on this frame to see a
frame used as a text display.
Double click on this frame to see a
frame used to display an icon/graphic
(in this case an icon of italicized text,
created as a graphic, created because
RC5000 Setup does not allow you to
use italics or any other text effect).
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Programming Properties