RE: Xap Desktop

["Darren Thrower" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Can anyone point me in the direction of a sort of idiots guide to
installing
and using xAP?

I've been downloading all-sorts and getting no where!
The best I've done is managed to change my desktop background and see what
the weather's like (using xAP Desktop and Weather respectively)

I'm not a developer (best I can do is writing simply websites) but would
like to get tv listings, callers phone numbers & webcam/cctv images
like on
http://www.mi4.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=45

Thanks

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Martin Wonders
Sent: 14 September 2005 15:39
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Xap Desktop

Thanks Kevin,

Tried the viewer and watcher apps and couldn't get it going.
However the problem is now solved and I think it is a windows issue. I had
a
wireless network configured and
Connected and also a separate wired network. I had Xap setup for the wired
network but it seems
that the wireless network was causing problems, it's now disabled and xap
is
working fine.

Cheers

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Kevin Hawkins
Sent: 14 September 2005 11:53
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Xap Desktop

Hi Martin,

Given you have several (more than one) xAP application running on your
PC you must have a xAP hub launched as the very first xAP application - I
always recommend using xAP Viewer as a hub to start with so you can
familiarise youself with xAP - (Viewer shows everything that happens). When
correctly launched and operating as a hub it will say xFX Hub in its title
bar.  Later you can replace this with a background
(service) hub.
Yes there are potential issues with firewalls if they are enabled as all
of those apps recover data from the internet to display and communicate
with
each other via IP if they are on different PC's.
However you can just 'allow' the apps in the firewall config , or some
firewalls prompt at launch.  I am around this afternoon all day and monitor
the xAP Automation Yahoo groups so if you don't have any success I can help
you there. xAP Desktop is one of the more complex xAP applications to cut
your teeth on but worth the time.

Kevin






Martin Wonders wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've just downloaded Xap desktop and can't get anything to work, tried
>news,weather,TV, the screens pop up but no info.
>Are there any issues with firewalls etc?
>
>Cheers
>
>Martin
>
>
>