Re: Fw: Re: Grand Designs tonight touchscreens.....

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jamie Bennett wrote:

>
>For me, what ever solution is realised, it has to be multi-platform.
>

This particular project will not be fully cross platform unfortunately.
Server and clients will have to be Windows based (98+ although WinCE /
PPC clients will also be supported) .  I know that doesn't meet
everyones needs.

The xAP protocol of course is OS independent and the server (running on
Windows) would be able to fully interact with any xAP BSC based
application on any networked PC/device. Indeed the server  has no
differential between a local xAP app/device and a remote app/device.  So
all your dev work in xAP  could still be Linux based and you would
effectively have a touch screen server (and logic engine) . Actually the
logic/scheduler could be implemented anywhere on any OS choice but the
TS server would need Windows, as would clients.  Embedded xAP devices
like the Netiom (raw digital I/O and counters/latches, A/D) and the
C-Bus xAP bridge would be transparently supported  too.

Kevin