Menus and xAPNews etc.

[i.bird@xxxx]

Hi all

Still specing out my menu controller......

I was thinking last night (I try not to but sometimes...) that all the menu
stuff I have planned is great but wouldn't it be good if my displays could
also do just that - display stuff. I had a quick look at the schema
examples on the xAP site for news and the other one? They look pretty good
but I was wondering how you cope with line width. My screens are only 21
characters wide so would I need to support wrapping and possibly scrolling
or can these parameters be set in the news/weather/whatever applications so
the end device doesn't care?

Secondly, do the various display applications support targeting or is it
broadcast only? I am thinking here of different infomation on different
screens e.g. weather on the bedroom one but news in the lounge. This is
kinda related to my last point.
On a network note - if these screens are network enabled e.g. using an
xPort they will have an IP address. How does this work in broadcast mode?
Two devices will have two different IP addresses - will I have to send to
each in turn or does it work in some other way? Sorry for the lack of
TCP/IP knowledge here. An xPort by the way does all the TCP/IP stuff and
passes the received data to the attached device (my screen) in a serial
format.

And lastly for the time being, do the various applications out there
support information on demand. For example the web access element could
have downloaded news, weather, TV now and next and others. It would be nice
to be able to select a menu choice which says 'display the weather' or
whatever. Is this possible now or potentially in the future? If it is
future is this an application I would have to write myself.

Sorry for any lack of knowledge here but in the past I have not paid too
much attention to these threads.

Just thoughts

Thanks

Ian

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