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Re: [ECS] ACE Screenshots Dan Carrington Thu, 03 Sep 1998 07:50:07 -0700

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Thanks for the pics Michael.  Very clean and simple to look at.  Nice
tabs for different menus.  Just a refresher for me if you would.  Please
correct me if I am wrong.  I am trying to get a better handle on the
system you are running.

You are running touch screen laptops or screen only computers arround
the house.  They are connected by a common serial line or ethernet.  You
run Ace client over windows95 on the touchscreen computers with your
button setups on them.  You run Ace server on the automation commputer
running on windows95, which watches listens to ECS and the touchscreen
computers.  ECS and ACE communicate in a windows environment with DDE
commands.  ECS publishes it's states of items to ACE server to be
displayed on the touchscreens.  ACE clients take screen hits and tell
the server such and such button has been hit.  ACE server then sends a
command to ECS and ECS will fulfill said command.  ECS then sends the
corrected status back again.

Do I have this all correct?

Dan Carrington

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