Crestron electronic Isys G-Series TPS-15G-QM - Manual (Page 59)

Crestron TPS-12G/15G/17G-QM Isys ® G-Series Touchpanels
Pushbutton Programming
Four of the buttons can be programmed to access any frequently used command.
Each button has a permanently fixed digital join number. The sequence of digital
join numbers is (left to right) 1 through 4. Refer to the following illustration for their
assigned join numbers. A description for each button signal is described in the
SIMPL Windows help file (F1).
Pushbutton Layout and Join Number Assignment
Join
1
Join
2
Join
3
Join
4
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 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.
Example Program
An example program for the TPS-12G/15G/17G-QM is available from the Crestron
website (
www.crestron.com/exampleprograms ).
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