SoftPanel

The menu area provides a graphic representation of the menu system on a Carbonite control panel. The Select, Up, and Down buttons represent the actions of turning and pressing the knobs on the panel. The buttons in the top right corner allow you to navigate around in the menu tree, and the stylized mnemonic buttons at the bottom allow you to access different menus.

The user area allows you to select what the bus area is assigned to, or interact with a virtual positioner. Press the ME/Key, Aux Bus, or Positioner button to a select how the user area appears.

The ME/Key button allows you to select what the bus area is assigned to. Click ME X, MiniME X, or MultSc X to assign the bus area to that output. Click one of the Key X Sel buttons to assign the key bus in the bus area to that key.

The Aux Bus button allows you to select one of the aux buses that the key bus row in the bus area is assigned to.

The Positioner button provides a virtual interface to the positioner. The positioner is used in device bus, or to move keys or masks around. Click and hold the positioner and move it around to emulate moving the positioner around. The slider to the right of the positioner emulated twisting the positioner knob on the panel. The button to the left of the positioner emulates the button on the top of the positioner knob on the panel.

The control area (the upper right of the screen) contains the main DashBoard interface to the switcher. Click Navigation Menu and select the menu you want to navigate to. When the Live Assist menu is selected, the sub-menus will follow actions in the bus area when PaneLINK is on.

The bus area provides a graphic representation of the panel row on the switcher. Use the user area buttons to assign the bus area to an ME, key, and aux bus. Sources are then selected on the key, program, and preset buses, and transitions are set up and performed with the transition buttons to the right of the source selection buttons.