IEE PDK-0013 Pole Display
Last edited: December 15, 2003 08:09 AM

The PDK-0013 is a 2X20 character pole display and is currently used with workstations that use the Liberty CPU such as the TouchPlus2 and Spectrum4.  It connects to a serial port and is driven with standard Do Template and Print To commands.  Premade templates can be obtained from Touch Menus upon request.
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For serial displays, the MODE command should be:
        MODE COM2:9600,N,8,1
This is the standard form of the MODE command and should already be present on Touch Menus configured workstations.  If the port is other than COM2, substitute the correct COM port.
Styling

Templates should have three lines as follows:

ASCII:33,35,55,13,14,17,12,22

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy                  ~

Where x represents the first line of the display and y represents the second line.  The tilde(~) should be in the last column on the last line of the template.  To create a cleaner display, when ringing items, it is recommended that the print template used for displaying menu items look as follows:

ASCII:14,17,12,22

  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

  ####.##                            ~

Technical

The ASCII codes perform the following tasks:

    *      33,35,55,13 – Enable IEE control codes
    *      14 – Make cursor invisible
    *      17 – Normal data entry mode with automatic carriage return and line feed
    *      12 – Clear display
    *      22 – Move cursor to home (Line 1, Character 1)

The tilde tells Touchnet not to put a carriage return at the end of the second line.  This is necessary to prevent the display from scrolling up, bumping the first line from the screen.  Note that character twenty of line 1 needs to be left blank or a tilde would have to be added to the right.
Revisions

12/29/99  rw

  1. Initial writing.