I am looking for someone that can write a program to interface to Jbase
to display data on a second monitor (running two vga monitors on 1
computer) for customer purchases.

It would need to print in large font two lines of data when I send it
and after a few 5 seconds disappear. The montior is running a
powershow/powerpoint display other times. This is for a POS application.

Anyone interested in quoting on this? If you need further details you
can email me direct at info (AT) comp-ware (DOT) net

Thanks,
Richard Kann
Comp-Ware Systems, Inc.

Wouldn't you be better off using one of the purpose built POS Pole
displays ? Or is this for demo purposes only ... ?

What OS .. XP only ?

Ross Ferris wrote:
Hey Ross, try quoting a little context. Richard's original post
contained the following...

"It would need to print in large font two lines of data when I send it
and after a few 5 seconds disappear. The montior is running a
powershow/powerpoint display other times. This is for a POS application."

It's a little difficult to show a powerpoint slideshow on a customer
display, no?

Luke

Wha .... you want me to read AND type at the same time ?!?!@

Still need to know OS though (1/2 )

The os is Windows XP pro and 2000 pro as clients have both. Powershow is
a macro to powerpoint that allows the system to run a powerpoint slide
demo in automatic mode in the background and still have other apps running.

The purpose is to have the advertisement running on powershow and still
show the receipt data instead of having the 2nd monitor AND a pole display.

I would like to accomplish this by either a two line display at the
bottom (or top) and the powershow on the remainder of the screen.

Richard

Ross Ferris wrote:

I would have thought this reasonably straightforward.....You could probably
do it yourself reasonably quickly if you can use something like vb.net for
example.

Simply have your application write out the message to a file on the server
(not a multivalue file but a normal Windows file).

Then have a small vb.net program (or something similar) that will poll this
file constantly and display the text as required. It's pretty much just a
form with a text box in!

It should be no more than an hours work for someone... I just wish I had
that hour to spare!

Hope this helps... Apologies if it doesn't!

Regards
Simon
"Richard Kann" <him (AT) comp-ware (DOT) net> wrote

"Simon Verona" wrote:
*Gasp*
..NET includes a FileSystemWatcher class that allows you to passively
monitor the file system for changes and respond to events, rather than
actively polling in a loop.

This is one of those really great features that come with .NET that
people will never appreciate if they keep looking at it as just a
forced upgrade from VB6. Anyone who adopts .NET should continue to
investigate what it provides rather than following old coding
practices in the new medium.

Doesn't help Richard much - sorry bud...

T

Simon Verona wrote:
It doesn't sound all that easy to me. First, this is a two-headed
system, not two separate PCs. Second, Richard wants the second monitor
to display a PowerPoint show while the customer display info isn't up.
But presumably the main monitor will be occupied with the POS application.

I wouldn't know where to start. Hang on... (Google-oogle-oogle). Bingo!
OK, now I think I could do it. <g>

It's just a matter of snapping a full-screen display over the top of the
PowerPoint presentation and showing the info on a window within it. Then
close it after a few secs and leave the presentation running. You'd need
to have some parameters set up to tell it the starting coords, height nd
width of the screen, and set the Powerpoint show up to cover the right
area as well.

As for the file watching thing, that would debend on the front-end. Is
it a known terminal emulator? A client app of some kind? You could very
well get away with invoking the little display app directly by some means.

Luke

Tony Gravagno wrote:

This "Feature" has been available on Windows, without .NET since Win95.
It's the Win32 API call FindFirstChangeNotification. You could create
your own routine or class based on this quite easily.

Sorry for the OT, but people should realize that they may not need an
entirely new platform to achieve the desired results.

--
Kevin Powick

Sorry Tony

Fully aware of the FileSystemWatcher class.. Just presumed the file would be
on a network share, where the FSW class has no affect.

Though thinking about it, it would be just as easy for the jBC code to write
a file across the network onto the local PC where the FSW class would work..

However, thinking again, I'm not happy with that thought either... The jBase
code would annoyingly fall over if the PC with the screen display was
switched off or rebooted... (unable to access file, (c)ontinue, (r)etry,
(Q)uit).

Whilst I can think of better solutions, the continual polling concept would
work fine...

Regards
Simon
"Tony Gravagno" <g6q3x9lu53001 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com.invalid> wrote