Working With Project (*.TP4) Files
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TPDesign4 (v3.2 or higher)
Setting a Power Up Page
Use the Power-up page option in the Panel Setup Information tab to specify a particular page in your project
to be displayed when the panel is turned on:
1. Select File > Project Properties to open the Project Properties dialog - Panel Setup Information tab
(FIG. 33 on page 44).
2. Click the down arrow next to the Power up page field to display a list of all of the pages in this project
(FIG. 34):
3. Select the page that you want to be used as the Power-up page from this list.
Setting Power Up Popup Pages
Use the Power-up Popups option in the Panel Setup Information tab to specify one or more popup pages in
your project to be displayed over the Power up page when the panel is turned on:
1. Select File > Project Properties to open the Project Properties dialog - Panel Setup Information tab
(FIG. 33 on page 44).
2. Click the green Plus sign icon below the Power up Popups field to invoke the Add Power Up Popup
dialog, presenting a list of all popup pages in the active Project (FIG. 35):
Project Properties dialog - Panel Setup Information tab (Cont.)
Power Up/Inactivity
Settings
• Power up page - Click the down-arrow to view a drop-down list of all pages
currently saved in this project. Click to select the initial startup page for the
panel.
• Power up popups - This field indicates the Power-Up popup pages that will
appear over the Power up page.
• Inactivity page - Click the down arrow to select which page to flip to after the
specified period of inactivity (set on the touch panel).
• Feedback blink rate (10th of second) - If you are using blinking button feedback
in your project, use this field to specify the blink frequency, in 1/10th-second
increments (default = 5).
Device Port/Channel
Allocation
The use of dynamic list tables with channel codes may require the designer to
specify the ports and/or channels to be allocated on the panel, if the ports/channels
utilized in the dynamic table(s) will exceed those declared in the project.
These options include:
• Automatically calculate port allocation - select to have TPDesign4 calculate
the maximum ports required (default setting).
• Specify port allocation - select to supply a specific port number to be allocated
to dynamic list tables. When this option is selected, a text field is provided for
you to manually enter the port number to be allocated.
• Automatically calculate channel allocation - select to have TPDesign4
calculate the maximum channels required (default setting).
• Specify channel allocation - select to supply a specific channel number to be
allocated to dynamic list tables. When this option is selected, a text field is
provided for you to manually enter the channel number.
FIG. 34
Power-up Page drop-down list
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