© Tillypad, 2008-2017
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| Revision History | |
|---|---|
| 12.10.2010 | |
| Tab pages were transformed into panels. The description of how to access commands in the context menu was added, more details to the description of the window fields were added. The POS terminals directory was removed. Now POS terminals are described as devices that support the POS interface. All fields with settings (sales settings, payment settings, auto-orders) and panels with connected devices (printers, customer displays) have been moved from the POS terminal window to the Device window. The "Surveillance objects" panel was added. | |
| 25.03.2011 | |
| The command to subscribe to replication was removed from the context menu. | |
| 24.05.2011 | |
| The Screen form setup panel was added to the Device window, along with panels that correspond to the available device functionalities. A description was added for panels that are displayed if the connected devices specification for a selected device type is filled out. | |
| 21.07.2011 | |
| A link to the Select device window was added. This window is used to select devices of a certain type. | |
| 14.09.2011 | |
| The introductory passage was made more precise. | |
| 17.11.2011 | |
| Only regularly displayed panels are described in the editor window: Properties, Parameters, Software module information, Additional parameters, Sales setting, and Remote surveillance. | |
| 19.12.2011 | |
| The Subscription and Subscription status columns were removed from the data grid. | |
| 22.03.2012 | |
| The System column was added to the data grid of the directory. | |
| 24.09.2012 | |
| The Security level column was added to the data grid. The Clipboard menu was added to the context menu of the data grid. The Security level field was moved to the separate Access panel in the Device and Device loader windows. A description of the New devices multiple entry window was added. | |
| 23.08.2013 | |
| The Port field is now required for root devices in the device window. | |
| 20.01.2014 | |
| Descriptions of the Screen forms panel and the Device screen forms window were added. | |
| 31.03.2014 | |
| A description of the multiple device loaders entry window was added. | |
| 08.04.2014 | |
| Instead of the general description of the Device window, separate descriptions were created for the windows of devices created by system software modules. | |
| 24.09.2015 | |
| The directory form class changed from TfmDevicesWithLoaders to TfmDevices. | |
| 04.04.2016 | |
| The list of devices was updated. | |
| 06.05.2016 | |
| Descriptions of the Device value and Select software module value type windows were added. | |
| 08.06.2016 | |
| The list of devices was updated. | |
| 04.07.2016 | |
| The list of devices was updated. | |
| 05.08.2016 | |
| The list of devices was updated. | |
| 25.08.2016 | |
| The list of devices was updated. | |
| 07.09.2016 | |
| Descriptions of the following devices were added: OKTell PBX, Execute SQL code by ID entry, and Control turnstile via ID entry. | |
| 30.03.2017 | |
| The Current device state command and the Current device state window were added. | |
| 10.01.2018 | |
In Tillypad XL you can use different devices: fiscal registers, customer displays, billiards control devices, paging stations and many others. These devices can be real, e.g. a printer, or virtual, e.g. a portable storage replication assistant. Device drivers are used to control all these devices. A device driver is a software module with settings configured such that it can control a particular device. For the sake of simplicity, this description will use the word devices to describe device drivers.
Software module parameters (parameters, format types, configurable value types, etc.) merge with the parameters specified for a device. The parameters specified for a device overwrite their analogous software module parameters.
Devices used in Tillypad XL are managed in the directory.
The directory has a list of devices and device loaders. This list shows how the devices are connected. A device can be connected to another device or to a device loader. To connect one device to another, you need to specify the parent device software module in the software module connection specification of the child device.
A device loader is a (software) program that is set up or started as an application or a tool (in manual or automatic mode) on computers where device drivers need to be loaded.
Device loader functions:
Loading (connecting) new devices to workstations (Tillypad XL Manager and Tillypad XL POS) and to other computers.
Updating device software modules.
Controlling device operation.
