Crestron electronic TPMC-8T - Manual (Page 55)

Crestron TPMC-8T Isys i/O™ 8.4” TableTop WiFi Touchpanel
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
8 ) in a font.
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 i/O touchpanel firmware changes are required in
either case.
Indirect text on a button is entered in VT 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
A number of third-party or in-house applications are embedded in a VT Pro-e
TPMC-8T project. (Refer to illustration on the following page.)
• Adobe Reader
• Microsoft Excel Viewer
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Word Viewer
• MJPEG Viewer
• NetMeeting
• PowerPoint Viewer
• Real Player
• Remote Desktop
• VNC Viewer
• Windows Media Player
• WordPad
The embedded applications have the following features:
• All embedded applications listed in the VT Pro-e ProjectView
workspace are created by default for a new TPMC-8T project.
• All applications are created at project-level – one instance per project.
• The static position and size of each application can be viewed from any
page.
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