Crestron electronic TPS-TPI - Manual (Page 20)

Touchpanel Interface Crestron Isys™ TPS-TPI
Fast motion mode (if the Fast Motion button is selected) reduces motion artifacts
and should be used for most video sources. Still video mode (if the Still Video
button is selected) works best for still pictures. It has a maximum resolution and
reduces flicker. However, it suffers from motion artifacts. The text color of the
selected button is red rather than black.
Select the Soft button for soft mode video. In this mode, video filtering and noise
reduction can produce a better image from some sources. Alternatively, select the
Sharp button for sharp mode video. This mode provides maximum detail, but is
more susceptible to noise in source. The text color of the selected button is red rather
than black.
Use the Display Video button to actually display the video input signal. Select the
Return button, located at the lower right corner of the Video Menu, after video
parameters have been set.
VisionTools™ Pro-e (Multi-Mode Objects)
Have a comment about
Crestron's software?
Direct software related
suggestions and/or complaints
to Crestron via email
(
[email protected]) . Do
not forward any queries to this
address. Instead refer to
"Further Inquiries" on page 24.
VisionTools™ Pro-e (VT Pro-e), a design and programming Windows  -based
software, permits the creation of control screen variations incorporating two and
three-dimensional graphics and text. A set of pages, which make up a project, can be
designed for each TPS-TPI/touch-sensitive screen overlay application. Each page
contains objects such as custom control graphics, two and three-dimensional buttons,
sliders, and digital readouts which allow the user to interface with the control
system. The project is uploaded to the TPS-TPI and programmed into the flash
PROM. The unit uses the programmed project until another set is uploaded from the
PC. VT Pro-e also allows users the option to generate projects destined for web
browsers rather than for touch-sensitive screen overlays. For additional software
information, consult the VT Pro-e help file.
Multi-mode objects offer high-
performance programming!
The single most-advanced VT Pro-e high-performance programming technique
involving the TPS-TPI is the concept of multi-mode objects. A multi-mode object
(i.e., button, legend, etc.) is an object drawn on a VT Pro-e page that can have one or
more active and inactive visible settings (modes). Each multi-mode object has a
minimum of one inactive analog join; buttons and legends have a digital join with an
active and inactive analog join. There are actually 100 possible modes for each
active and inactive analog join. In other Crestron touchpanels, these settings are
limited to two visible settings. One setting is the active object's face, frame and text
color. The second setting is the inactive object's face, frame and text color.
Multi-mode objects offer power and versatility with simplicity. These three attributes
of a multi-mode are definitely intertwined. For example, assume a user wanted a
page to display an object that changed color and associated graphic/text based on the
state of an analog join number controlled by a Crestron control system. This example
is analogous to a traffic light that changes colors as well as controlling the text on a
walk/don't walk sign. Using single-state objects, the user would have to draw and
manage five objects and three digital join numbers: one 3-D border, one animation
object, and three transparent buttons with active and inactive text color.
However, using a single multi-mode object, the programmer gets the same result
with less effort. All that is needed is one multi-mode button having an inactive state
with three modes. Furthermore, if the project needs to be edited, only one "Object
Properties" window needs to be accessed. And when it is time to recompile and
upload the file to the TPS-TPI, time is saved as well. VT Pro-e reworks only those
parts of the project that have changed since the last compile and upload.
Programmers no longer have to wait while each unedited graphic in a graphic-
intensive project is recompiled. It is plain to see that multi-modes are a programmer's
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