Extron electronic MEDIALINK MLC 52 - Manual (Page 89)

5-29 MLC 52 Series MediaLink Controllers • Serial Communication
Button Settings area
In this section of the screen, you can enter text to label the MLC screen buttons on
the front panel display (you cannot label the IR 452 buttons). You can also select
the switch mode (defining the way the buttons are grouped and function
together) for a selected button (Input, Volume, Single Switch) and/or whether the
button will execute one command (toggle mode) or multiple commands (macro
mode) when pressed. (See “Setting up button modes and labels” on page 5-35.)
Display settings tabs
In this section, the Display Power Settings tab lets you enter information
regarding the display device’s powering on and off process. The Display Comm
Settings tab lets you enter information about the display device’s communication
port. See “Entering display device power settings” on page 5-38 and “Entering
display device communications port settings” on page 5-39.
Button Operations area
In this section of the screen, you select or define the command(s) to program to a
selected button, or remove commands from a button. (See “Assigning functions
to buttons” on page 5-32.)
• Driver tab — Lists the drivers that have been added to the current MLC
configuration. Click on the + sign at the left of a driver name to see the
commands available for it. (See “Assigning functions to buttons” on page
5-32.)
• Add Driver and Remove Driver buttons — Let you add a driver to the
current configuration or remove a selected driver from it. These buttons are
displayed only when the Driver tab is selected.
• User Defined tab — Lets you enter commands for buttons in hexadecimal
or ASCII characters. (See “Assigning user-defined functions to buttons” on
page 5-34.)
• Add and Clear buttons — Add a user-defined command to a selected
button, or clear the command coding from the User Defined field. These
buttons are displayed only when the User Defined tab is selected.
• Current Button field — Lists the commands that have been programmed
onto the selected button. In this section, you can add or remove any of the
listed commands to or from the selected button, using the green right and
left arrow buttons. The up and down arrow buttons at the right of the
command list enable you to reorder the commands on the list.
• Play IR Command button — Executes (“plays”) a selected IR driver
command that has been programmed on the selected MLC or IR 452 button.
• Learn IR Command button — Lets you add a command to a button using
IR learning. (See “Assigning functions to buttons” on page 5-32 and
“Performing IR learning via software” on page 5-40.)