Overview

All G5 panel entities (Pages, Popup Pages and Buttons) have at least one state.

• Pages, Standard Popup Pages and Sub-Pages have only one state.
• General, Bargraph and Text Input buttons have only two states (on/off).
• Sub-Page View buttons only use one state (Off).
• Multi-State General and Multi-State Bargraph buttons can have up to 256 states.
• States start at 1.

The State Manager window allows you to view and modify individual states. The State Manager window supports full Cut, Copy, Delete, Insert, Replace and Paste as well as drag and drop capabilities. The State Manager context window (open via right mouse click on any thumbnail in the State Manager) support allows the user to Add single or multiple states, Replace states, Insert single or multiple states and Remove states.

• For Multi-State General buttons the different states (up to 256) are used to animate a button from Off to On (Range Time Up) and back again to Off (Range Time Down). When the button is turned on it will display all the assigned states from first to last with a specified time interval between each state's display. When the button is turned back off, the states will be displayed in reverse order. The interstate time intervals are user definable in 1/10th second increments. A zero entry will automatically advance / retreat to the ending / beginning state without displaying any intervening states.
• For Multi-State Bargraph buttons, the level will directly reflect the displayed state. You can set an allowable range within a Bargraph that has states. Anything outside of that range will not be represented by a state.
• For buttons with multiple states, Send Commands can set the state number, provided it is not a level type button.