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TonyNo
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Saw this on another forum.
15" Dell for $399.
Ordered one, too, since the price looked so good.
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Thanks Tony...that was a good price. Ordered mine as well  .
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Received my unit today. Nice! I spent most of Sunday coding a new front-end for use on it.
http://tonyno.ods.org/pics/hollytouch-audio.jpg
It's coming along nicely!
Also picked up a low-cost, thin (~1/2") VESA mount for it at Radio Shack to hold it until I can flush-mount it.
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Tony, that looks great! Havent received mine yet. Not sure if I will get a chance to use it right away. Building a new house and supposed to close in mid-June. Lot of home auto related things are on hold until I get moved  .
Keep us posted on your progress.
Dave.
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Hi all
I've been busy also coding a new frontend for my webinterface... The only thing is that these type of graphics aren't shown correctly in Mozilla and so I've coded it only for IE...
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Looks good!
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Peter,
That looks great. Very slick. It looks like we've got those temperatures working now  .
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Hi,
Yeah! It is all working flawlessly now... I had to add the path much sooner to the formula, and I had to upgrade the PC much earlier.... Oh well, that's all water under the bridge now... NEXT PROJECT!
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I just finished cleaning up after mounting the touch screen in my foyer. I couldn't flush-mount it in this location due to conduit in the wall, so, I used a thin (1/2") VESA bracket to attach it to the surface. I'm happy for now.
Pic 1 • Pic 2
Next, I need to change up the paint/paper in that area! When I pulled the big mirror down to make room for the screen, there was a nasty halo left behind. 
Since the mirror is gone, and my daughter complained  , I had an idea to add a small web cam on top of the screen and create a "mirror" using it and Webcam2000! 
Tony
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TonyNo wrote:
| I just finished cleaning up after mounting the touch screen in my foyer. I couldn't flush-mount it in this location due to conduit in the wall, so, I used a thin (1/2") VESA bracket to attach it to the surface. I'm happy for now. |
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Hey that is looking good. My touch-screen (crt) is at the repairshop because it only shows a horizontal line (hor.sync IC is broke) When it is back I am planning to use it again with an old style 486 with IE on Win95 and place it in the server-room... When I am there I only have to bring the screen up (which I previously made) and can control the whole house from my serverroom....
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Tony,
That looks great. Mine are still in the box .
Where is the PC driving the screen? Did you run a special VGA cable or did you do something like VGA to Cat5 baluns?
Dave.
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The PC is hiding around the corner for now (one of those sub-$100 systems I found). I'm thinking about using my HS machine, which is in the basement with USB and VGA extenders, but, I may end up building a bench below the shelf and could stuff a machine in there.
"Mine are"... How many did you pick up? It was really hard for me to not get two.
Tony
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Heh,
I bought one and then couldnt resist so turned around and bought a second one about 10 minutes later  .
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What is your "HS" machine...not the dreaded HS is it ?
Dave.
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Oops! I meant HA! See how close the S is to the A on the keyboard? 
Yeah, the even-lower price they are showing now is very tempting!
Tony
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Well, I have progressed further. I can now pull up the Windows On-Screen Keyboard on the touch screen with a button. I ended up running DCC on that machine and use ph_ssrequest to send a ph_run to launch it and a ph_switchto to bring it up if already loaded.
I also found out that you can increase the width of scroll bars in the Windows Display settings! I spend most of this evening looking for a browser extension that I didn't need! 
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Heh, glad you're figuring out these problems for me Tony for when I get around to unboxing mine .
I wasnt aware that Windows had an on-screen keyboard. How do you access this?
Thanks,
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Generally, %SystemRoot%\system32\osk.exe...
Win 2k: \winnt\system32\osk.exe
Win XP: \WINDOWS\system32\osk.exe
Also, I needed to add an X-10 filter to the touch screen; seems the power supply eats signals.
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I figured I would post some screen shots of my html/javascript/psp pages that run on the touch screen.
The pics have been resized from 1024 x 768 x 16b to 640 x 480 x 8b, so, some quality is lost.
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Tony, thanks for sharing. I'm impressed. I'm trying to figure out how to do most of the same things one a smaller scale - I don't want full size monitors around the house (and the wife wouldn't let me - she already complains about living in a "Harry Potter House")
I'm hoping to use small 2-4 line serial display panels. I've picked a couple up, just need to get some time to write code...
Along those lines, does anyone have an elegant way to figure out what is currently playing on Windows Media Player? I should post a new topic in programming for this...
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Get the Now Playing plugin for WMP. I would suggest using that and scraping the generated HTML for the info.
I use Winamp with a plugin called Browseamp for control/status.
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