We are speaking of configuration code. If the change is purely graphical than you are correct. But if the touch panel change includes any sort of logic--feedback, button press, indirect text--then you need to go through the mega time consuming processing of building the project and generating the program. In fact if all you are doing is liking something in the graphics file to a change in code--for example, linking feedback from rsd1 to rsd2--then you don't even need to load the new grahpics files. The change may have been made via VT-Pro but it's really a logic change in the code.

A few tricks:

1. Once you have customized you panel and don't want systembuilder to alter those changes, select the panel in program view, from the list select advanced and uncheck automatically build pages.

2. When you are in VT-Pro, most panels will have the uncompiled pages [Shared]1_Graphic_style header & BUttons
[Shared]2_Graphic_style header & BUttons 2
[Shared]3_Graphic_style text & Gages
[Shared]4 Graphic_style buttons & preview screen
[Shared]5_Graphic_Style Category Icons
[Shared]6_Graphic_Style Category Icons 2

These pages contain buttons for you to use when you need to add some graphical entity or icon or text field You are better not copying from an existing button since includes template data that you will not want since you will be assigning a different funtion to it.

3.Finally, there is the uncompiled Global Subpage Reference. Any funciton you want automatically added to every page or which you wish to delete you either be added here or deleted here.

Alan