Hello!
Some time ago when I was first becoming an ASP, I was told that best practice was to limit the amount of popups used in P-TS7 configs, as too many could cause lag and/or slowness to respond due to limited capabilities of the hardware.
Lately, I've come across more and more touchscreens that use popups almost exclusively, with navigation buttons hiding all, then showing the appropriate "page" popup in its designated area. Several consultant layouts that we use would benefit from this type of setup, but I've been hesitant to give it a go as my muscle memory just sets about building pages instead.
I would love to be able to start using this popup type of control display, as it would remove a lot of duplicate programming across multiple pages for things like a sidebar of houselight presets and instead rely on just having the correct popups being displayed. However, I'm also not entirely certain what the pitfalls of this type of setup are.
What says ETC about popups, and how are other techs building their touchscreens?