Working With Templates
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PDesign4 Touch Panel Design Software (v2.10 or higher)
Template Requirements
There are a few key items required of all templates. TPD4 will not allow you to create a template
without:
A minimum of 1 Navigation Element.
A minimum of 1 Placeholder Element.
A main Preview Image.
When designing a template it is important to remember the rules that govern elements and their relation
with the templates, as indicated in FIG. 79.
There are a few key items required of all templates. TPD4 will not allow you to create a template
without:
A minimum of 1 Navigation Element.
A minimum of 1 Placeholder Element.
A main preview image ("[preview].jpg" or "[preview].png").
Required Template Elements
When designing a template it is important to remember the rules that govern elements and their relation
with the templates. The chart below demonstrates these rules.
The template must have at least one of each of the following elements:
Navigation Elements - This is the main menu where most of your navigation selections are made.
Consists of at least one popup but can contain multiple popups.
Cannot contain any pages
Only one can be displayed at a time.
[nav#navName]pageName
navName - The name of the Navigation as it will appear within G4 PanelBuilder.
pageName - The base page name that will be used in the generated TP4 project.
FIG. 79
G4 PanelBuilder - Template element rules