AMX MET-ECOM-D manual Creating Dynamic Images, TPDesign4 Resource Manager

Using the Configuration Manager

Check your graphics editing program for options relative to the reduction method applied to the image when reducing the colors to 1-bit. In many cases you can select from several techniques (such as error diffusion, ordered dither and/or nearest color). Depending on the nature of the image you are working with, some reduction methods will yield much better results than others.

Refer to your graphics editing program documentation for details, or better yet, experiment with the options you have to find the one that works best for each image.

Creating Dynamic Images

Use the Resource Manager feature of the TPDesign4 application to create dynamic images for use with the MET-ECOM-D. If you do not already have TPD4 installed, download and install the latest version from www.amx.com.

TPDesign4 - Resource Manager

The Dynamic Images tab of TPD4’s Resource Manager dialog (FIG. 40) allows you to manage images that exist on an HTTP server or FTP server, external to the panel.

Click to create a new dynamic image (opens the Create Dynamic Images dialog)

FIG. 40 TPD4 - Resource Manager (Dynamic Images tab)

Dynamic images can be refreshed at specified regular intervals or via the Panel > Refresh Dynamic Images option.

Use this tab as a "library" of every dynamic image file that will be used in your project (for pages, popup pages, buttons and icons). It is important to import all of your dynamic images to this tab first, before they are applied in the project, so that you can maintain an organized profile of all images in the project, regardless of their context (i.e. button state, page background, etc.)

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