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    Power Point Type Application for Message Board?

    Just curious here ................

    I'm working on a pretty simple web application which will be used to provide messages on several large screen monitors in the hallways of our government building. In other words, an electronic message board.

    So, since space is obviously limited on a 32" screen, I was wondering if there was any simple way to have the messages change after X number of seconds, sort of like the way a Power Point presentation can be set to run and change slides in so many seconds.

    I was thinking that if I had the messages displayed on a grid, could it be set so that only one record/message from the table appears at a time, and then moves on to the next record automatically.

    I didn't see anything like that mentioned on this message board, so I may have to resort to using MS Power Point, but I thought I would ask first.


    Rich
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    #2
    Re: Power Point Type Application for Message Board?

    How about using the timer event on the UX to cycle through and display the messages? I think that's the direction I'd start out with.
    -Steve
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      #3
      Re: Power Point Type Application for Message Board?

      Hi Rich,

      A slightly different approach could be to use a timer on the a5w page itself. For example,

      <html>
      <head>
      <%a5
      ?"<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='4'/>
      session.counter=str(val(session.counter)+4)
      ?session.counter
      %>

      This would simply refresh the a5w page every 4 seconds and display an incremented counter everu 4 seconds.
      You could easily use a grid that shows one record at a time and then show the next record every time the page refreshes.

      Hope this helps.
      Gary S. Traub, Ph.D.

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        #4
        Re: Power Point Type Application for Message Board?

        this is along the lines of steve's suggestion.
        create an ux I call them the old terminology in version 11, dialogs.
        populate with controls that match the table you want to display, but the important is the id which I would assume an auto increment field.
        make it pretty as you want with frames containers etc.,
        now on the onChange event of the id write an inline javascript to populate the controls from the table with the value in the id field.
        then go to client side afterRenderComplete event
        write this code

        Code:
        var id = 0;
        window.setInterval(displayItem,10000); ' happens every 10 seconds - being that javascript runs on milliseconds or you can wrote it as 10*1000 so you can change the interval at any time.
        function displayItem(){
        id = parseInt(id) + 1;
        {dialog.Object}.setValue('ID', id );
        }

        the result will be something like this
        http://screencast.com/t/MXsqpErhSst
        it should work, however I did not include limiting size for the id increment. I am sure you can do that yourself.
        Last edited by GGandhi; 01-02-2016, 06:20 AM.
        thanks for reading

        gandhi

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