User manual MCINTOSH UR12 UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONTROL

[. . . ] Software Customizing Guide UR12 Designer Software UR12 McIntosh Laboratory, Inc. 2 Chambers Street Binghamton, New York 13903-2699 Phone: 607-723-3512 FAX: 607-724-0549 Table of Contents Table of Contents and Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Technical Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] From the UR12 Designer Program Main Menu, click on Tools and select Download or click on the Download Icon on the ButFigure 13 ton Bar. Press the Down Load Touch-button under "Operating Program" on the UR12's PC Interface Screen. The Designer Software takes control and transfers the data from the PC to the remote control; a progress bar displays, indicating that the transfer is active. You can see the property associated with any button by rightclicking on a button, and clicking Function Property. If you click on any other function in the property sheet, a message will tell you Figure 17 which button the function is assigned to, Figure 18 and which Device Page the button is on. It will also inform you that any new buttons you have drawn are currently undefined. 1. Choose the . mdl file you want to import using the Windows File Browser. Note: Another Windows Dialog Box opens asking you to find and select the Button. ini File. 4. Find the Button. ini File associated with the . mdl file you selected, and click it to finish the import procedure. Refer to figure 16. C:\UR12 Operating System\Designer. mdl Figure 16 Notes: A Progress Bar displays during importing and upon completion the program returns to the Workspace screen. If there are any instances of file corruption with older buttons; the UR12 Designer Program will automatically repair any problems it discovers during the import process. How to Import PDT Files 1. Choose the . pdt file you want to import using the Windows File Browser. Choose the . ldt file you want to import using the Windows File Browser. Download the data to your UR12, refer to Chapter 2. 8 Chapter 3 Figure 19 Button Limits Even though the design interface allows buttons to be placed anywhere on the screen, there is a design limit built in to the software. You will get an error message with the following conditions: · A total of 56 buttons per device can be deployed: 14 per screen. · While it may appear that buttons can be added anywhere on a Figure 20 Page, note the position of the default button command set carefully. With the exception of adding two buttons to the bottom row of each Page, beside the Last Page button, the software actually only remembers the location of the existing 12 buttons. Placing buttons off this "matrix" may lead to unusual results. Not that it cannot be done: just watch for anything out of the ordinary when you download the command set to the UR12. · UR12 Designer can maintain a maximum number of 50 distinct and individual buttons per Workspace. This is true whether the buttons are tiny or large, and is due to the memory structure of the UR12. More than 50 can be saved in the Workspace by adding them to the More Buttons Template. · Of the 50 buttons that can be deployed, eight are reserved for use by the software; this means that you can create up to 48 additional buttons per Workspace. [. . . ] Apart from actually designing buttons, this is where most of the activity takes place. Here, you can change buttons, change labels, and copy and move buttons around to suit your own requirements. This is the key feature of UR12 Designer, and what makes it so desirable for owners of the UR12 Remote Control. This is what can be preformed in the Page Preview Window: · Drag a button from either Button template to add it to any open Device Page. [. . . ]