Crestron electronic TPS-17B/W - Manual (Page 50)

Tilt Touchpanels Crestron Isys ® TPS-12B/W, TPS-15B/W & TPS-17B/W
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 is available in many
international languages and add-on software is available for other versions of
Windows.
Example Program
An example program for the TPS-12B/W, TPS-15B/W & TPS-17B/W is available
from the Crestron website (
http://www.crestron.com/exampleprograms ).
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