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    TouchPad Messaging?

    Christian,

    I like your Message Server plugin. Tried it a while back and liked it but my daughter didn't like running it on her P90MHz 40MB RAM PC. She said it slowed down AIM (being a parent, I consider that a good thing ).

    It is running on my CF-01 touchscreen PC running Windows 95. I am now using my CF-01 almost exclusively with the new HS TouchPad plugin.

    I was wondering if you thought it might be a good idea to add a HTML page message feature where the page is designed to work with the TouchPad plugin. So, rather than a balloon or message box, MS could push a TouchPad web page containing the message. The web page would use the currently configured TouchPad skin. The page would either timeout or have a button. Either of which does a history.goback to get you back to the previously displayed web page.

    P.S. Post thoughts you have on DM in its forum.

    Jim Doolittle
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    Jim,

    I would love to support TouchPad plugin but I don’t see anything that I can do for a message with the TouchPad plugin template at lease for now.

    If you can point me something that I may miss I will work on this for sure and I’m also looking forward for HS 1.7. I hope new stuff will be available for plugin developer.

    Regards,
    Christian

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      #3
      Christian,

      I think you can do this already without waiting for a TouchPad developer kit. Build an ASP as follows:
      <pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">
      s = ""
      s = s & "&lt;%= hs.Plugin(""Touchpad"").BuildPageHeader(""Custom Page"") %&gt;" & vbCrLf
      s = s & "&lt;p&gt;" & MessageToSend & "&lt;/p&gt;" & vbCrLf
      s = s & "&lt;INPUT TYPE=""button"" VALUE="" BACK "" onClick=""history.go(-1)""&gt;" & vbCrLf
      s = s & "&lt;%= hs.Plugin(""Touchpad"").BuildPageFooter %&gt;"
      </pre>
      Save the string to an .ASP page, send physical page to client, tell client to show page. User reads message that has same look-and-feel as their TouchPad screen and then clicks the back button (or let the displayed button name be "OK").

      If the user specified a timed message then use:
      <pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">
      s = ""
      s = s & "&lt;%= hs.Plugin(""Touchpad"").BuildPageHeader(""Custom Page"") %&gt;" & vbCrLf
      s = s & "&lt;script language=""JavaScript""&gt;" & vbCrlf
      s = s & "timer1 = setTimeout('history.go(-1)'," & waitsecs & ");" & vbCrLf
      s = s & "&lt;/script&gt;" & vbCrLf
      s = s & "&lt;p&gt;" & MessageToSend & "&lt;/p&gt;"
      s = s & "&lt;%= hs.Plugin(""Touchpad"").BuildPageFooter %&gt;"
      </pre>

      I don't know if this is the best approach but it should be close.

      Jim Doolittle
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        #4
        Jim,

        Yes this will be a way to go but I will need to tweak a bit the way it works for sending message. Instead of sending a message to a client I will have to hold the message and notify the client that a message is available.

        This will not be available in the next beta release but I will start adding this new function next week.

        Thanks,
        Christian

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          #5
          No hurry. It was just a thought I had when I was playing with my TouchPad screen and received a message from Message Server.

          Jim Doolittle
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