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RE: [ECS] ACE Screenshots Michael David Thu, 3 Sep 1998 20:47:31 -0400

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Hi Dan!


>You are running touch screen laptops or screen only computers arround
>the house.

I'm running ACE Clients on 6 different computers around the house, each of
which has a Touchscreen.  ACE Server runs on my ECS computer.

>They are connected by a common serial line or ethernet.

Ethernet, 10BaseT

>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.

Yes to all.



Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com

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