Crown Audio IQ-MSD Turbo Software - Manual (Page 20)

IQ–MSD Turbo 1.4 Advanced IQ System Software
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2.1.2 Graphics Plates
A graphics plate is a graphic screen in which custom objects can be designed and stored to create attractive
operator screens for your IQ System. It may sound scary but it is actually very easy to create a graphics plate and
it gives you tremendous power over your system because you decide what controls are available and in many
cases what operating range the controls have. In addition, you can cause Turbo to display a graphics plate rather
than a text screen when the program starts up, making the program that much friendlier for your operators. A
sample graphics plate which was made from a combination of preconfigured graphic display modules (GDMs)
and custom objects is shown in Figure 2.6 below:
The primary purpose of graphics plates is to provide operators with an attractive graphical interface that makes the
system easy to use and control. Well designed graphics plates can be very intuitive, keeping operator training time
to a minimum. You can create as many graphics plates as your computer’s memory and storage space allow. And
you can create buttons on them that allow the operator to jump from one graphics plate to another. You can even
create graphics plates with instructions to serve as “help” screens for new operators.
The graphics plate in Figure 2.6 was created on a PC that provided only standard VGA graphics. This means that
the graphics plate has a resolution of 640×480 pixels. However, if your computer has a compatible SVGA or
XVGA graphics adapter, you can set Turbo to use a higher resolution such as 800×600 (SVGA), 1024×768
(XVGA) or even 1280×1024 pixels. This will give you much more room to create elaborate graphics plates with
many controls. Section 3 later in this manual will describe graphics plates in much greater detail.
Fig. 2.6 A Sample Graphics Plate