Kramer Electronics revision1 manual Setup Example

The Virtual Device – an Application Example

3.3.1A Setup Example

The example illustrated in Figure 3, shows an application that includes three screens:

•A MAIN MENU screen

•A SETTINGS screen

•A VIRTUAL DEVICE (source switching) screen

The first two screens are used to set and enter the VIRTUAL DEVICE screen (the third screen). The VIRTUAL DEVICE screen is duplicated in the K-Config Virtual Device triggers layer.

Figure 3: Application Screen Examples

The MAIN MENU Screen

The MAIN MENU screen includes three buttons:

•SETTINGS to enter the Settings screen

•VIRTUAL DEVICE to enter the virtual device screen

•EXIT to exit the application

All three buttons are related to internal functions or procedures in the Virtual Device application; therefore they are not duplicated in the K-Config Virtual Device triggers layer.

The SETTINGS Screen

The SETTINGS screen lets you configure the communication setting with the Master RC and includes three buttons as well:

•IP (as an option) to manually configure the IP Address of the Master RC

•K-ID to enter the K-NET ID of the Virtual Device application

•CONNECT to connect to the Master RC

This manual connection approach is useful if the same Virtual Device application is to run on the same physical device as a user interface for several K-NET rooms (several Master RCs).

In most cases, the end-user should not be able to easily change the IP settings and especially the K-NET ID of the Virtual Devices, since changing these settings will result in loss of communication with the Master RC.

This screen is also not duplicated on the K-Config Virtual Device triggers layer.

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