GE 450 Installing Application Software, External CD-ROM Drive, Touch Screen Driver for Windows

Installing Application Software

The Windows operating system and CIMPLICITY HMI software is loaded onto the Touch Display unit at manufacture. If it is necessary to reload software, follow the instructions in the documentation supplied with the software. The following sections give tips for customizing the software for the Touch Display platform.

External CD-ROM Drive

A driver, BP32DRV, is factory-installed to allow the Micro Solutions Backpack ™ External CD- ROM Drive to be used for loading software. To enable this driver on units with Windows NT, select Devices under Control Panel, select BP32DRV, and change Startup setting to System. Close the Control Panel, shut down, and connect the drive to the parallel port. Restart the system and open Windows NT Explorer. The CD-ROM should appear as D:. When finished, the driver can be set to Disabled again. For units using Windows 95, simply shut down, connect the drive, and restart.

Touch Screen Driver for Windows

Operation of the touch screen surround requires the software driver T5driver for Windows 95 .or TNdriver for Windows NT.

The integral touch-surround of the Touch Display unit is internally connected to the serial port on the backplane. Parameters must be given to the software driver to match the hardware settings (refer to Touch-screen Port Address, page 8). The factory default settings are:

COM Port	= CUSTOM
Address	= 310 hexadecimal
Interrupt	= 5

These parameters are written into the Windows SYSTEM.INI file by the touch screen software driver setup utility. T5driver or TNdriver will be installed, configured and calibrated at manufacture.

Note

When the above parameters are entered using TNSetup, a message is given that a line should be added to AUTOEXEC.BAT, such as:

C:\WINDOWS\TBBIOS 3 310

This message can be ignored.

22 CIMPLICITY® Display Station Touch Display: IC752CTD400/450 – March 1998 GFK-1425B