Crestron Tutorial: Starting a Crestron Touch Panel Project
Before you start designing your touch panel, it may be a good
idea to check out my Graphic
Design for Touch Panels Tutorial. After I have drawn out my logical
diagram, I like to start programming my touch screen first in
Crestron Vision Tools Pro-e (VtPro-e). This way, I can map out
the functionality that will suggest certain programming requirements
when it comes to do the real programming in Crestron SIMPL Windows.
I will now go step-by-step through the process of creating
a single button on a Crestron CT-1550 touch screen panel.
 1.
After you open Crestron Vision Tools Pro-e, simply select FILE
+ NEW + PROJECT to open an new project.
There is a tool bar button for adding a new project if you prefer.
CNTL + N is the short cut key to open a new project.
You will be prompted to enter a name for the new project...
 2.
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You will see the following window:
Take a little time here - it is well worth it. This is where
you enter a name and path for your project. For this tutorial,
I entered "My first project".
You must also specify which type of Crestron touch panel you
plan to use for the VtPro-e Touch Panel project. This setting
effects how the design interface looks and what features are
available to you at design time. The Description window will
be auotmatically filled-in by VtPro-e for you.
When you are satisfied with your entries, click on the CREATE
button.
3.
 You
can now add your first page to your project. To add a new
page to your Crestron Vision Tools Pro-e project, just select
FILE + NEW + Page
to create an new in your project. There is a tool bar button
for adding new pages to your project if you prefer. Unfortunately,
there is no windows short cut key.
You will be prompted to enter a new page name. It is very
important to use logical and descriptive names. Following
a naming convention is also very useful. For this tutorial,
I entered "Main" as the page name.
4.
Your Vision Tools Pro-e screen should look like this:
5.
You must mark a page in your project as the First page to
appear when the Crestron touch panel powers-up. To do this,
we must "mark a page as first". To do this,
right click over the page that you wish to appear first. Select
"Mark Page as First" and you are done. (See
screen grab below) The icon for the page will now have a number
"1" on it. You can only have one first page per
project.
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Changing
page properties 