Re: activex xap object?

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

There are at least three xAP OCX's - one written by Patrick at
http://patrick.lidstone.net/haweb/html/dev_tools.html
and a later one by James at
http://www.mi4.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=21
(xAP Intranet OCX v1.2).
There's also one written by Michael McSharry - available via the
HomeSeer/MCS forum.

Each of these is very different in how it implements xAP and some people
have reported issues with Patricks' re memory management usage during
high traffic so possibly I would recommend James' which I use within my
own applications now. James's xAP OCX even includes an inbuilt web server .

You should also take a look at xAP FloorPlan too as it has much the same
scripting capabilities as xPLHAL along with it's own web server based
using AJAX  so updates are real time - not browser refreshes and you can
get at device status and embed your own html too. If you're more
adventurous then xAP Desktop supports xAP widgets and scripting allowing
for realtime updated floating windows with transparency (XP) &
positional control and click on/through events.

I'll leave the getting variable values into your own asp pages to J to
tackle...

Cheers Kevin


rleong1 wrote:
>
> i use a home automation package that doesn't support xap but has the
> ability to use activex objects through scripting. is there an activex
> object for xap? something that i could instantiate in a script and
> make the software i use appear to be xap enabled? (ie it could
> receive messages directed to it, etc) is this even possible?
>
> one thing i like about xplhal is its global variables to store
> previous state, on which i can do scripting, etc. is there something
> similar in xap to xplhal's global variables? another feature i like
> is the ability to display those globals in my own asp page. would
> this be possible w/ xap?
>
> i bring a lot xap stuff across to xpl so i'm looking for a way to use
> xap directly instead.
>
>