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[Ian Bird]

Hi

Sory for the cross post but it was the xAP TV message on the other
xAP list that got me thinking about this.

As some of you know I am working on an embedded solution called
a 'menu controller' at the moment. One of the tasks I would like it
to do is display the data you are talking about with the xAP TV
application i.e. now and next on TV but on a demand basis not a push
from the server. So, you might select from the menu
system 'House/Lounge/TV/Now and next' and it would send a xAP
request for the data which would then get displayed. Has anyone
thought about this scenario and does the TV app support this sort of
request model? If not can it potentially?

I am a long way from having a working prototype by the way so this is
something for the future.

Secondly and possibly a separate topic
Is there a way of identifying xAP messages that float about the
network as ones that hold data destined for a display? This might be
a bit of an open question but I am thinking here of my menu device
acting as a display when not in use for selecting something from the
menu structure. It would be really nice if it could eves drop on say,
messages for a Slimp3 and display them but not necessarily have
knowledge of the slimp schema (if there is one). I think I remember
talk of a display schema - is this is what is used and somehow the
data is tweaked so it fits a slimp? Mine is likely to be a 6 lines by
21 characters LCD display.

Just mulling - apologies if this has been covered before but I have
not followed the PC based xAP stuff quite as closely as I could have.

Thanks

Ian