Guide To RC5000 Setup Version 2.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Guide to RC5000 Setup Manual - Version 2.0 The information in this manual is copyright-protected. No part of this manual may be copied or reproduced in any form without written consent from Marantz America, Inc. MARANTZ AMERICA, INC. SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR OMISSIONS OR FOR TECHNICAL OR EDITORIAL ERRORS CONTAINED IN THIS MANUAL. MARANTZ AMERICA, INC.
Table of Contents Table of Contents This Table of Contents is hyperlinked. Simply hover your mouse anywhere on the listing.The cursor will change to a pointing finger. Click and you will be hyperjumped to the correct page.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. What is the Updater? 18 Updating 18 You can always return to the factory configuration. 18 Using the Programming Window 19 Basic Definitions 20 Using Tree and Panel Views To Examine a CCF.
Table of Contents The Gallery 30 Using The Gallery 30 How can I create my own gallery? 31 Programming Properties 32 Introduction to Properties 32 Active, Inactive, Selected and Unselected 32 The Action List 32 Learning & Macros Step by Step 34 Restrictions To Jumps 36 Home System Properties 37 Home - Create Your Own or Use Auto Alias? 38 Programming Home Manually 38 Use Automatic Aliasing to Create Home Buttons 38 Configuration is Write Protected 39 Changing Scroll Arrow and Hom
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Table of Contents Grouping Widgets in Frames 56 Working With Parents, Children and Siblings 56 Custom CCF Programming 57 Introduction 57 Merging Files 57 Modify the Gallery 58 Customize Default Panels 58 Alphabetical Index 59 7
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Getting Started What do you need to know before you start? 1. Familiarity with RC5000 RC5000 Setup requires a clear understanding of the capabilities of the RC5000.You should read the User Manual for the RC5000i (even if you have an old RC5000- it can be downloaded from the Marantz web site) and practice using and programming the RC5000 standalone, before considering using RC5000 Setup for anything more than a way to save your work.
Getting Started What can you do with RC5000 Setup? RC5000 Setup enables you to go beyond the programming capabilities of the remote control by itself. It allows you to rearrange the buttons on every panel.You can control navigation by programming jumps from any button to any panel.You will now be able to program macros and animations on a device or a home panel as well as within Macro panels. Most importantly, it enables you to save your work on your PC and send configurations via email.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. What is a CCF file? All windows files use a three letter extention to identify themselves to windows. RC5000 Setup uses the three letters “ccf” for a configuration file including IR codes, macros, animations, button art etc. A CCF file includes everything an RC5000 needs to operate a given system. The actual letters “ccf” refer to the early developers hope that the RC5000 would be called the Cabernet. Thus ccf stood for “cabernet configuration file.
Installing Installing RC5000 Setup PC Requirements RC5000 Setup system requirements • PC with a 486DX/66 MHz or higher processor • Windows 95,Windows 98,Windows NT 4.0 or higher operating system • 16 megabytes of RAM • 10 megabytes of free disk space • Super VGA or higher graphics card and monitor • Available serial port which supports 115200 baud Step by Step We recommend that you close all programs before installing RC5000 Setup. When installing directly from our web site: 1.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Loading and Saving You need to set the Memory Size first. Before beginning to program, you should tell RC5000 Setup whether you are programming a one megabyte RC5000 or a two megabyte RC5000i. After you have set this property once; you can forget about it, RC5000 Setup will remember your choice in any future programming session.
Loading and Saving Uploading from RC5000 to your PC 1. Start RC5000 Setup. 2. Connect one end of the RC5000 serial cable to your RC5000 and connect the other end to a serial port of your PC. 3. Get in the habit of choosing New from the File menu before Uploading. RC5000 Setup can merge the uploaded file into an open file.This is useful sometimes; see page 57 for more information. However, it is easy to accidentally merge two files together, creating a very large and hard to understand file.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. • If RC5000 Setup could open the serial port to which your RC5000 is connected but still could not connect, check to see if both ends of the cable are properly inserted and if RC5000's batteries have not run out.Then wait a few seconds and try again. If after a number of tries RC5000 Setup still cannot connect, try resetting your RC5000, wait until it beeps twice and try again. You can cancel the upload at any time by clicking on the Cancel button.
Loading and Saving How do you save a configuration? Now that you have a configuration in the programming window that has content, you can save it in a CCF clicking on in the toolbar, or selecting Save Configuration or Save Configuration As... from the file menu. A conventional Windows navigational window will appear, enabling you to name the file, put it in the location you want etc. This shows the root folder of RC5000 Setup in C:\Program Files. Type in the file name for your configuration.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. How do you open CCF Files that are stored on your PC? When RC5000 Setup is not running. 1. Start RC5000 Setup and load a CCF by doing one of the following • double click on a CCF, or • drag a CCF and drop it on the RC5000 Setup icon When RC5000 Setup is running. Warning! RC5000 Setup will only open one file at a time.
Loading and Saving How do you download a configuration into an RC5000? 1. Start RC5000 Setup. 2. Connect one end of the RC5000 serial cable to your RC5000 and connect the other end to a serial port of your PC. 3. Make sure you have a configuration in RC5000 Setup either by uploading one from your RC5000 (see How do you upload a configuration from my RC5000?) or by loading one from a file (see How do you open a CCf stored on your PC?). 4.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Fundamentals Update the Operating System! What is the Updater? The Updater is the most important step of programming an RC5000. It reprograms the remote control operating system to support the new features of RC5000 Setup Version 2.0.Without running the update, you will not be able to get any of the new features to work on the remote control itself. Periodically, Marantz will offer improvements to RC5000 and RC5000 Setup on our website.
Fundamentals Using the Programming Window Like any Windows program, menus appear when you click on a Menu title. For example, here’s what you’ll see when you click on File. The file name of the configuration you are working on is always visible in the Title bar. Note that there are keyboard shortcuts for most of the commonly used menu choices. Click on the “maximize” box to get the biggest possible window to work in. These are shortcut buttons.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Basic Definitions Panel - The 240 pixel wide by 219 pixel tall area of the touchscreen you control. See page 9. Hidden Panel - A panel that you cannot scroll to, only manually jump to. See page 52 Group - Up to 255 panels can be grouped into a Home, Device or Macro Group.This allows you to navigate to groups using menus, and to panels within groups using scroll arrows. Device - The division of up to 255 Device groups.
Fundamentals Using Tree and Panel Views To Examine a CCF. Those three “divisions” that appear in your tree view represent the three sides of your remote control as accessed by the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click on the + sign next to Home and the display changes. After clicking on it, the + sign changes to a sign. All of the contents of the home division are displayed now. Double click on one of the (panel icons) to view it in the panel view.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Exploring Tree View Single Clicking In Tree View You can SELECT anything in tree view with a single click.The item will be highlighted once ED. Practice the following in RC5000 Setup with your “tutorial” file. Once it is SELECTED, you SELECT- can press F2 to rename it.
Fundamentals Exploring Panel View You can SELECT any panel in panel view with a single click anywhere on the panel.The panel selected will have a highlighted title bar. Any other panel’s title bar will be dull. When a panel is SELECTED, it has a highlighted title bar. To SELECT another panel, simply click anywhere on the panel. You can move your panels around in panel view by clicking and dragging them. If your window is not maximized, maximize it now to give yourself room to view several panels at once.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Here are some things to try on SELECTED widgets in panel view. You can move a SELECTED widget with the arrow keys on your keyboard.They move faster if you combine the space bar with an arrow key. Once it is SELECTED, you can press F2 to rename it. You can delete a SELECTED widget by pressing the delete key. Go ahead, delete a few widgets! When you delete a frame with widgets inside, you delete everything.
Fundamentals The View Menu Toolbar makes the toolbar of shortcut buttons available or not. Statusbar makes the status bar (which indicates the size and position of selected widgets in the bottom right corner) available or not. Note: The Toolbar can be moved. Simply click the top of the bar and drag it anywhere. You can change its shape, as well, by clicking and dragging the bottom right corner. The Tools Menu Run Emulator loads the current configuration into a PC simulation of the RC5000. See page 28.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. The Device Menu Add Device creates a new empty Device Group within your list of active devices. See page 49. Is Template makes the selected device an inactive Template Device group (can be made active with the remote control’s ADD mode menu command). See page 49. Is Read Only protects the selected device from any changes on the remote control (via the DEL or LEARN mode menu commands). See page 49.
Fundamentals Right Click for Context Menus The right mouse button offers another way to access the menu commands. By clicking on an item in either tree view or panel view with the RIGHT mouse button, you will see a list of same menu items you saw in the pull down menus. However, they are now directly related to what you right clicked on. Right click on a panel in tree view. Right click on the Home Division in tree view. Right click on the Device Division in tree view.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Using the Emulator RC5000 Emulator is a separate application (although it only runs from within RC5000 Setup), which emulates every aspect of a real RC5000*. You can use RC5000 Emulator to test drive your configuration without the need to download it to your RC5000. At any time you can launch RC5000 Emulator from RC5000 Setup by clicking on in the toolbar or selecting Run Emulator from the Tools menu.
Fundamentals Making screenshots of the Emulator There are two kinds of screen shots you can make. For a Panel screen shot, simply press the PRINT SCREEN button which will save the currently displayed screen of RC5000 Emulator in a Windows bitmap file. RC5000 Emulator will tell you the full path of the file it saves (the screen shots usually go into directory C:\ProntoScreens). RC5000 Emulator saves up to 100 screenshots before it starts the same filenames again.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. The Gallery The gallery is a collection of all of the widgets Marantz used to create the default configuration. It makes creating new control panels from scratch a very pleasant operation. If you like, you can add your own art to the galler; see the next page. Using The Gallery 1. Open the panel view of the panel to which you want to add a button. 2. Open the Gallery by clicking on The Gallery appears.
Fundamentals 4. Click on the button you want to add, drag it to the panel view and drop it where you want to add it. If the button you want to add is embedded in a frame, clicking on that button will select the entire frame. Hold down a SHIFT key while clicking on a button in the gallery to select only that button. Clicking and dragging a frame filled with widgets to an empty panel. Clicking and dragging while holding down the Shift key enables you to drag just one widget.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Programming Properties Introduction to Properties Properties windows are used to quickly modify all kinds of RC5000 looks and behaviors.These windows can be accessed by double clicking, right clicking (and choosing Properties from the Context menu) or by pressing the Insert key on your keyboard after SELECTING the item or widget you’d like to modify.You can access: System Properties (global changes to your entire RC5000) under Home in tree view.
Programming Properties The Name of the Button. The Action List. The Action List Tab. An Alias appears in the action list preceded by a [B] if it is a panel button. The name of the group is next (the TV device group), then the panel name (channels), and finally the button name (ON). If the Alias is to a Device Action (the act of selecting the device from the Device Menu triggers the Device Action normally), the Alias will be preceded by a [A].
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Learning & Macros Step by Step To program a button to take action when pressed, take the following steps: 1. Double click on a button or select a button by clicking on it and press the INSERT key. 2.The button property sheet appears. Select the Action tab. 3.The currently assigned list of actions is displayed on the right side of the property page.
Programming Properties Double click on a delay in the action list to change the amount of delay. Type in the amount of delay you want, from .1 second to 99.9 seconds. Press the ENTER key on your keyboard to set the delay. • RC5/6: click on this button to define an RC5 or RC6 IR code. RC5 and RC6 codes are shown in the action list preceded by a [C]. RC5/6 codes control equipment from Marantz, Philips and many other manufacturers. • RC-MM: click on this button to define a basic mode RC-MM IR code.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Note Some Infrared commands will not learn successfully when your RC5000 is communicating through Windows. If you have difficulty learning an Infrared command when connecting to your PC, try to learn the command with the RC5000 disconnected, via its mode menu command “Learn.” Typically, the RC5000 can learn the command when it is disconnected from Windows (See the User Manual for IR learning tips). 4.
Programming Properties Actions can be moved up or down the action list, by selecting the action to be moved, holding down the CTRL key and using the cursor UP or DOWN keys. Alternatively, you can drag actions up or down the action list using the mouse. The Delete button enables you to delete any SELECTED action in the action list. The Test IR button enables you to test any selected command in the action list if the RC5000 is connected to the PC via the serial cable.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Home - Create Your Own or Use Auto Alias? Decide whether you want to program Home manually or not. Uncheck the “Home Panels are write protected” checkbox to manually program home buttons. Keep it checked for Automatic Aliasing. When programming with the remote control, the user cannot directly program home buttons.
Programming Properties Configuration is Write Protected This box should be kept UNCHECKED until all programming is complete.The RC5000 learns IR codes much more effectively stand alone than linked through Windows. If you check the Configuration is Write Protected checkbox, you cannot do any programming with the remote control itself.The Mode button will not even appear in the Setup panels! The only way you can change anything will be on a PC with RC5000 Setup.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Programming Left/Right and Direct Access Buttons Globally When you name a Left or Right hard button in Home System Properties, you are naming the buttons globally. If you choose to name a particular device or macro group’s Left and Right button properties, it will overide the Global properties when the user has navigated to that particular group.
Programming Properties Suggestion It is often convenient to copy the TV device group, rename the copy “TV Only” and program the direct access Vol- and Vol+ with the TV’s own volume up and down IR commands.Thus, you can watch TV with Surround Sound by selecting the device group “TV” (in this device group the Vol- and Vol+ action lists are empty, so the RC5000 executes the Home System Properties Vol- and Vol+ action lists programmed with your surround receiver’s volume up and down IR commands).
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Button Properties ACTIVE and INACTIVE and the Action List When you program just one step in a Button’s action list, you make the button ACTIVE.That step can be anything: a jump, a delay, a learned IR command, an alias, etc. Making a button ACTIVE is important. Remember, the RC5000 makes INACTIVE buttons invisible. However, in RC5000 Setup you can see a button whether it is programmed or not.
Programming Properties Labels/Names are Invisible unless you choose a Font! You can choose to name a button, but not have it display the name. In fact, this is the default condition of any button you create via the Add Button command.This is useful with a button that has artwork that displays the name (loaded as an Icon).You don’t want a label to be superimposed on your artwork; yet you want to be able to identify your button within the Alias navigational window.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Location/Size The location windows enable you to type in a new location accurately, without dragging the button around the panel. Specify a location by typing in the new location (in pixels, remember the usable panel is 240 pixels wide and 219 pixels high). This box controls the distance from the left side of the button to the left side of the panel.
Programming Properties Colors — For Active, Inactive, Selected and Unselected Text Click on the Radio Button to make your text color selections By using the Colors button properties, you can indicate the state of a button by the colors of the text with any button that you name/label. If you create a button without using any icon artwork, you can also indicate state with changing background colors. Note that background color changes do not affect widgets with icon artwork loaded.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Frame Properties After looking at the nine tabs of Button Properties, viewing Frame Properties is a joy.There are only four properties to examine for frames. Name, Icon, Location/Size and Colors. All operate identically to button properties. To find a frame to practice with open a panel in Home in your tutorial file.We placed a number of frames in the center of the panel. Select the Marantz frame and double click to access Frame Properties.
Programming with the Default CCF Programming with the Default CCF Basing Your Design on the Marantz Default CCF’s The default ccf configurations offer you a convenient and fast way to customize your remote control.They are especially useful for those of you with Marantz components. Here’s the process of programming using the Default Configuration. The Process Peruse the configuration in RC5000 Setup and the Emulator for ideas. Revise Home System Properties for manual or auto programming of home panels.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Start with the 2 Megabyte File There are two default configurations in your RC5000 Setup Samples folder. One is designed to fit in an RC5000’s 380kb free memory.The other consumes 984kb of free memory. However, it is a simple and quick process to delete the items you will not use for either remote control.The advantage of the larger ccf is its complete list of Marantz components and extensive demonstration of animated macros.
Programming with the Default CCF Viewing and Changing Device “Type” In tree view, right click on any device.The context menu lists three kinds of devices via a checkmark next to the listing. Simply click on the listing to turn the checkmark off. A device with no checkmarks is simply a normal active device. Active Device — No checkmarks next to template. An active device will appear in the Device Menu. Template Device — A checkmark next to template.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Deleting Devices In tree view, simply click once on the first (from the top) device you don’t want. Once it is selected, hit the delete key on your keyboard.The next device is now selected. If you want to keep it, hit the down arrow key. If you want to delete it, hit the delete key.You can go as fast as you want, however you can only undo one accidental deletion (Control Z or Edit-Undo).
Programming with the Default CCF 7. Starting with the first panel, rename the first tab and copy the new name to the clipboard.You cannot use the Edit menu when the name window is open, but the keyboard shortcuts work fine! Simply select the tab and press Function Key F2, type in the name, double click to select the entire name then press and hold Control and tap the letter C on your keyboard (this is just like selecting copy from the Edit menu).
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Programming Tips Hidden Panels In tree view, right click on any panel icon to bring up the context menu. A checkmark next to the listing “Is Hidden” offers some additional power to the programmer. Hidden pages allow the user to create pages that are only accessible through a page jump. If a device contains a hidden page, this page will be skipped while scrolling through the pages of the device.
Programming Tips Copying panels and Tab Navigation Note Copying panels from one device to another does not update jumps to panels.You will have to manually reprogram any tab navigation buttons to jump to the new device. Adding Empty Panels Select a panel, HOME, or the device or macro group to which you want to add a panel and click on in the toolbar or select Add Panel from the Panel menu while holding down the shift key. This creates a totally empty panel.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Resizing Widgets Buttons and frames can only be resized if they do not have any icons loaded. If a button has one or more bitmaps, the width of the button is fixed to the smallest width of all its bitmaps and the height of the button is fixed to the smallest height of all its bitmaps.The same is true for frames except that a frame can have at most one bitmap. If a button or frame has no icons, you can resize as follows: 1.
Programming Tips Working with Grids Panel view grids are a helpful tool to line up buttons and frames. A panel view grid is a set of up to 64 horizontal and 64 verticle line segments.The main use for grids is grid snapping, which restricts button and frame locations to grid location (the locations where the line segments of a grid intersect). Grid snapping affects button and frame moving, dropping a button or frame dragged from one panel or gallery, as well as button or frame resizing.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Grouping Widgets in Frames RC5000 Setup does not have a grouping command, yet. However, you can group a number of widgets onto one frame, which makes complex arrangements far easier to move around, copy and paste. Here’s how to group a bunch of widgets into a frame. 1. Add a frame to the panel. Change it’s background to white so that it will be invisible. This is the PARENT. 2. Copy a widget you would like to have grouped in the frame.
Custom CCF Programming Custom CCF Programming Introduction Many users have found these two websites helpful while creating a custom interface. http://www.remotecentral.com http://www.prontoedit.com You can choose to download ccf’s from these sites, merge them with your own and modify them for your use. OR You can use them for ideas and create your own interface with your own unique art and navigational structure from scratch.
Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc. Modify the Gallery RC5000 Setup loads the gallery from \gallery.ccf, where is the directory where RC5000 Setup has been installed. Simply load gallery.ccf as a regular CCF (which it is), make modifications like you would do for any other configuration, and save the modified configuration back in gallery.ccf.The next time RC5000 Setup is started, it will use the modified gallery.
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Index P Location 44 Locking your ccf 39 Panel Jump 36 Panel Menu 25 Panel view 19 Exploring 23 Using 21 Panels 20 adding 53 closing 21 Copying and Pasting 52 default 58 expanding 21 moving 21, 52 size 54 Parent 56 Pasting buttons 53 Pasting devices 50 Pasting macro groups 50 Pasting Panels 52 PC Requirements 11 Plus sign 21 Preventing Changes to your ccf 39 Previous Panel Jump 36 Programming Window 19 Properties 32 M Macro Group Menu 26 Macro Groups 20 Macros 32 changing step order 37 Delay 34 programmi
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