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  • Hichhiker
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    • Nov 2004
    • 45

    #1

    Auto-display multiple screens

    This is a VERY simple idea - a "Super" screen of sorts which is a list of screens and maybe even other URL's, which will auto-play these urls one after another without human interaction - good for throwing on a vacant machine or on a projector for monitoring.

    There are many ways to do this and while some sort of a AJAX/IFRAME business is probably a nice way to do it, the most basic is to just alter a URL a little in the autorefresh code.

    So a "SuperScreen" configuration would contain a list of screens and how many seconds to show each and a "SuperScreen" view would just create a frame or pointing to one of the screens and a refresh tag to itself with next screen in url param.

    Attached is an example I wrote in PHP a while back - it is based on xml file for config, but you will get the idea. (The "now.php" file is largely irrelevant, just a way to show current time to detect caching)

    -HH
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