The TPDesign5 Work Area

The TPD5 work area consists of several main components (FIG. 1):

FIG. 1 The TPDesign5 Work Area

In its default configuration, from top to bottom, left to right, the main components are:

• • Title Bar - Lists the name of the active project file.
  • Menu Bar - Contains the main menu options ( File, Edit, Panel, Page, Button, States, Layout, Transfer, View, Tools, Window, and Help).
  • Toolbars - You can choose which toolbars to show in the workspace via the View > Toolbars sub-menu. Click View, then click in the checkboxes to select/de-select the listed toolbars (including custom toolbars). If a toolbar has a check next to it in the sub-menu, then it is displayed. These settings are saved, so they'll apply the next time the application is launched.
  • Workspace Bar - Contains two tabs: The Pages tab contains a tree structure representing all open projects, and their pages and popup pages. Use the Pages tabs to open/edit the pages / popup pages in each project. The Function Maps tab allows you to view/edit the function codes associated with each page.

  • Properties Bar - Contains four tabs:

    • the General tab allows you to view/edit general (non-state oriented) button properties (see General Properties on page 235)

    • the Programming tab allows you view/edit programming-oriented properties (see

      Programming Properties on

      page 247)

    • the States tab allows you to view/edit button state information (see

      State Properties on page 25

      1)

    • the Events tab allows you to assign Gestures and Page Flips (see Event Properties on page 257)

  • State Manager - Displays each state of the selected button as a thumbnail image in this window. The State Manager window allows you to view/edit the various states of a selected button. See

    States on page 261.

  • Design View windows - Each tabbed Design View window represents a Touch Panel page, Popup Page or Application window. Note that a MDI tab is displayed for each opened page. Use the View > MDI Page Tabs option to toggle the page tabs. When this option is enabled, a tab is displayed for each open page. These tabs normally appear along the bottom edge of the Design View window area, but can be moved, toggled or modified via the MDI tabs context menu (right-click inside any of the tabs to open).

  • Status Bar - By default, the Status Bar shows the current XY cursor position, and (for the button the mouse is over): Channel code, Address code, Level code, button size, panel revision, Feedback and Initial page file target information. The status bar also indicates the status of your connection to the NetLinx Master.