Revision 1.27, July 3, 2014
G5 OVERVIEW
AMX is excited to bring you the next generation in touch panel control, design and functionality. G5
opens up a whole new world of features and functionality for now and in the future. The possibilities are
truly endless. G5 is a new platform for AMX with many new features along with a few changes. This is a
big change for AMX and its dealers, but our goal is to help make the transition as smooth as possible.
Unlike previous generations, G5 is not a seamless backwards-compatible update. G5 is a brand new,
streamlined approach and with that comes changes in touch panel design and NetLinx programming.
With that in mind, we want to help make this transition as easy as possible by providing, up front, those
changes that will likely impact our dealers the most.
A comprehensive list of changes can be found in the Appendix.
NEW FEATURES IN G5
Some of the major new features in G5 are as follows:
Enterprise software updates: A G5 product can be instructed to go fetch new firmware or other
software such as touch panels files from a specified URL.
Application (App) support: The following apps will be available with the initial release of G5
o Skype, Calendar, Contacts, Web browser, Office document viewer, PDF file viewer,
Weather, Currency converter, Calculator, VNC, Gallery image viewer, Stock ticker,
Dropbox
Layered bitmaps: Ability to place multiple bitmap files on a single button
Auto-scaling of bitmaps on a button
Gradient fills
Collapsible pop-ups: Pop-ups that can slide into view by means of gestures.
TRANSITIONING FROM G4 TO G5
G5 is a new operating system for the Modero X Series and existing TPDesign4 files are not compatible
with G5 touch panels. A new software tool, TPDesign5, is required to design touch panel files for G5
systems. TPDesign5 is similar in look and feel to TPDesign4 and can be installed concurrently with
TPDesign4 to enable the developer to design for both G4 and G5 systems at the same time. TPDesign5
also contains a utility called G4Utility that will convert existing TP4 files to TP5-formatted files. G4Utility
does a pretty good job of converting most TP4 files, however, given the enormous variations of TP4 files
currently in the field, some tweaking of the converted TP5 file may still be necessary after conversion.
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