Overview

TPD5 supports Application windows, which allow you to display "windowed" applications that operate outside of TPD5 on a G5 touch panel. These include applications for email, weather updates, Web and file browsing, calendars and calculators, and other functions. The figure below shows a set of Application windows, as they appear in TPD5s Design View (FIG. 329):

FIG. 329 Application windows

When one or more Application windows have been added to a project, they are indicated in the Application windows folder in the Workspace windows - Pages tab (FIG. 330):

FIG. 330 Workspace windows (Pages tab ) - Application windows

Note that (like popup pages), just because an Application window is listed does not mean it will appear on the panel. It is necessary to tie an action such as a button press/release or gesture swipe etc. to launch the Application window. See Events Properties for details.

• • On the panel, multiple apps can be launched in separate windows, but only one instance of a particular app type (i.e. VNC, Browser, Dropbox etc.) is allowed.
  • TPD5 supports defining multiple windows (layout, position, and parameter settings) for a single application type (i.e. Dropbox for example). In this case, only one instance of Dropbox will run on the panel, but its window and parameter settings can be modified by launching different Application window definitions via buttons (that is, different buttons tied to different Dropbox Application windows via the button press event property).