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TonyNo
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Excited rambling ahead; beware!
My son's PC (my real old one) dies a month ago, so, having some time off, I was heading out today to get a new one for him. On the way out of town, I spotted what looked like a new computer store and stopped in. Well! This place recycles old computers and gets end-of-lease equipment, refurbs it, and sells it in their store and on ebay. I got the grand tour and saw all sorts of cool equipment. One cool thing was that they had a couple skids of Elo touch-screen montiors!
It was at this point that I remembered I had a free Elo at one of my ex-wife's stores (they said it was broken, and just ordered a new one; more on this later).
I ended up buying up a nice 700MHz Celeron system for $89. It runs decently, so, I may get another for my daughter. Anyway, I used the Elo for setting up this system, and once I had it set up, I tried the touchscreen. I now need a few of these around the house! 
I also found a couple Wyse WinTerms, which are small Windows CE computers, for $50. I may end up getting one (or both) of these with an Elo for the kitchen, depending what my research reveals.
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That's pretty cool Tony! Ive been all around my town (Orlando, FL) and we don't have a store like that (if anyone knows of one, I'd like to know) except for Skyjunk (Skycraft actually).
Keep us posted on both the Elo and WinTerm testing. Im building a new house so could use some ideas.
Dave.
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I can't seem to get my ELO touchscreen working in win98... At first I wanted to use my HA-server without a mouse, but with my ELO-Touchscreen..... I can get it to work in DOS, Win95 and even OS2 but Win98 refuses at all times....... Drivers and all that stuff are current.....
Peter
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Windows 2000 gave me a bit of trouble. It worked after I uninstalled the 2nd latest Universal Driver from their web page, rebooted, then, loaded the driver again. :/
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Well, turns out the Wyse WinTerms are just that. They only function as a Terminal Services (aka: Remote Desktop) client of Win2K or XP Pro. Dang. 
On the up-side, I have stumbled upon something interesting in the last several days, and am now working on a floorplan view page for PH. This tidbit is a statement I saw in the web CC code... STYLE="position:absolute...". 
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Here's a sneak peek...
As ususal, use guest for both name and password.
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Looking good Tony  . Keep us posted on how it goes.
Dave.
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I have each level done now. Just trying to think of what else I can do with it. Here is a sample section for a lamp...
<!-- Foyer -->
<% ph_rtne( ph_setvar_s ( 1, 1, "A" ) + ph_setvar_s ( 1, 2, "12" ) )%>
<img border="0" STYLE="position:absolute; LEFT: 60px; TOP: 140px" <% case( ph_getx10stat("[LOCAL1]", [LOCAL2]) when 0 then 'src= "/unk.gif"' when 1 then 'src= "/off.gif"' when 2 then case( round( ph_getx10level("[LOCAL1]", [LOCAL2]), 0) when 100 then 'src= "/on.gif"' else 'src= "/dim.gif"')) %> width="16" height="16">
I first set two local variables to hold the appropriate house and unit code (A12 here). The next line checks the status of that device and displays the appropriate graphic. If it is off, it displays the off.gif graphic. If it is on, it checks the dim level, and if it is 100, uses the on.gif graphic, otherwise, it uses the dim.gif graphic.
This is pretty easy to tweak. The key is the position:absolute. Just fine tune the LEFT and TOP values to align with your floorplan, which you would load like this...
<img border="0" src= "/floorplan-main.jpg"> STYLE="position:absolute; LEFT: 12px; TOP: 15px" width="383" height="329">
This will be much easier once Dave adds graphics to the CC.
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Oh thanks Tony...just remind me of all the work I need to do for the New Year .
You're right though, it will make this type of thing a lot easier .
Dave.
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Hehe! I had to go back to old posts just to make sure you mentioned this before. Seems like it would be a small step from the existing CC code, but, I could be wrong.
I'm now trying to determine the best place for my first touch screen. Having a smallish house makes it tough. Maybe I'll replace the Palm Pad in the front entryway to make it convenient as we come or go... or, should I replace the Palm Pad in the kitchen? Decisions, decisions.
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