Crestron cnmsx User Manual

Crestron CNMSX 

Integrated Control System

 

Editor simulate an actual CNMSX-PRO front panel. Click on the VCR function 
button to enable the simulated page jump. The display clears, because “Menu2 – VCR 
Control” has been named, but no objects have been added yet.  

An example VCR Control page, as shown below, has a text object that appears as a 
header on the top row of the display and objects that are control functions assigned to 
each function button. Objects in the bottom row are shown in the inactive state (none 
of the buttons are being pressed).  

 

Use the “Edit Panel Object” dialog box to add objects to this page. Double click on 
the first object, play. From the Digital Channel field in the “Edit Panel Object” dialog 
box, scroll down to or enter “1”. In the Active Text field, enter “PLAY” as the 
button’s active text. Therefore, when the menu function button associated with digital 
channel 1 (the VCR button) is pressed, the active text is displayed as a visual cue that 
the button is pressed. Do the same procedure for each of the other menu function 
buttons in the “Menu2 – VCR Control” page.  

NOTE:  Digital channels are also referred to as “join numbers”. Join numbers are 
numeric identifiers assigned to an object or button. It is necessary to identify objects 
so the input/output signals of the SIMPL program can be named and routed properly.  

A powerful tool to assist programmers in naming and routing signals for the LCD 
display is the Synchronize Signals command. While the panel appears on the PC 
screen, select Panel | Synchronize Signal Names to automatically name all the input 
and output signals for the front panel in the SIMPL Windows program. To display the 
signal names, double click on Slot-08 : CNX LCD Front Panel which is available 
from the Central Control Modules folder in the Program View of SIMPL Windows’ 
Program Manager. The symbol appears in Detail View, as shown after this paragraph.  

 

 

 

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