Extron electronic MEDIALINK MLC 52 User Manual

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MLC 52 Series MediaLink Controllers • Serial Communication

Displaying the Help program

For information on program features, do one of the
following to display the MLC 52 Help screens:

From the Help menu on the MLC 52 Configuration
program screen, select Contents.

Press the F1 computer key.

From your computer desktop Start menu, select:

All Programs\Extron Electronics\MLC 52 + DVCM 50\
MLC 52 + DVCM 50 Control Pgm Help

Saving and restoring a configuration

An MLC 52 configuration consists of the display device driver(s); MLC button
functions, names, and modes; IR 452 button functions and modes (if applicable);
and power and comm port settings for the display device. The configuration
displayed when you open the MLC 52 configuration software may have been:

Created with the Configuration Wizard

Created via the MLC 52 Windows-based configuration software

An existing configuration file loaded from your computer

Before adding drivers or programming buttons to create a new configuration, you
may want to save your MLC 52’s current configuration in case you want to
restore those settings in the future.

Saving a configuration

1

.

From the File menu, select Save Configuration as... .

File menu, Save Configuration as... selected

The “Save configuration to...” window opens.

2

.

If necessary, browse to locate the folder in which you want to save your
configuration. (It is recommended that you save it in the MediaLink folder
or in another directory where the file can be found easily.)

3

.

Make sure the “Save as type” field is set to MediaLink Configs (*.MLK).

4

.

Type a name for the configuration in the File name field, in the format
filename.mlk.

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