Extron electronic MLC 52 Button Settings area, Display settings tabs, Button Operations area

Button Settings area

In this section of the screen, you can enter text to label the MLC screen buttons on the front panel display (you cannot label the IR 452 buttons). You can also select the switch mode (defining the way the buttons are grouped and function together) for a selected button (Input, Volume, Single Switch) and/or whether the button will execute one command (toggle mode) or multiple commands (macro mode) when pressed. (See “Setting up button modes and labels” on page 5-35.)

Display settings tabs

In this section, the Display Power Settings tab lets you enter information regarding the display device’s powering on and off process. The Display Comm Settings tab lets you enter information about the display device’s communication port. See “Entering display device power settings” on page 5-38 and “Entering display device communications port settings” on page 5-39.

Button Operations area

In this section of the screen, you select or define the command(s) to program to a selected button, or remove commands from a button. (See “Assigning functions to buttons” on page 5-32.)

•Driver tab — Lists the drivers that have been added to the current MLC configuration. Click on the + sign at the left of a driver name to see the commands available for it. (See “Assigning functions to buttons” on page 5-32.)

•Add Driver and Remove Driver buttons — Let you add a driver to the current configuration or remove a selected driver from it. These buttons are displayed only when the Driver tab is selected.

•User Defined tab — Lets you enter commands for buttons in hexadecimal or ASCII characters. (See “Assigning user-defined functions to buttons” on page 5-34.)

•Add and Clear buttons — Add a user-defined command to a selected button, or clear the command coding from the User Defined field. These buttons are displayed only when the User Defined tab is selected.

•Current Button field — Lists the commands that have been programmed onto the selected button. In this section, you can add or remove any of the listed commands to or from the selected button, using the green right and left arrow buttons. The up and down arrow buttons at the right of the command list enable you to reorder the commands on the list.

•Play IR Command button — Executes (“plays”) a selected IR driver command that has been programmed on the selected MLC or IR 452 button.

•Learn IR Command button — Lets you add a command to a button using IR learning. (See “Assigning functions to buttons” on page 5-32 and “Performing IR learning via software” on page 5-40.)

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