Just that simple question. If I'm using ProntoEdit what do I need templates and hidden panels for?

Pablo

Hidden screens: I use them to create a helpfunction for the family members who aren't that quick with learning a new electronic toy. :)
E.g. On my home menu there is an icon called help
(thanks to Daniel for this). If pressed a screen is shown with some tips how to use the Pronto. This screen is hidden so you won't see it by scrolling through the home panels, only by pressing "help".

You can use it for several other things, they are even used in those nice games you can find here!

About the templates I'm not sure, I don't use them,
but I thought it was this:
You don't have for instance a DVD in your home theater yet, but next week you will, then you can make a template device with all the buttons and stuff for this DVD. Because it's template you want see it yet in your device list on your Pronto, but you can activate it, when your DVD arrives.

Or something like that.

Regards,
dunno

Templates aren't really of any use except for the default Pronto configuration. Basically they're completely hidden, inaccessable devices. Then, on the Pronto you can "add device" and select a template to use as a base. Not of any use for personal configurations.

Yeah and don't make the mistake I did of changing an existing working device to a template as it lost all associations...

Pablo,

When the Pronto was released, the ProntoEdit software was not available yet (we used an early version of ProntoEdit to create the default CCF, but it still needed a lot of work (I guess it still does...) and the people in charge didn't quite know what to do with ProntoEdit yet). Therefore, it had to be possible to change the Pronto configuration without using any external software (like ProntoEdit). That's where the templates (as well as the autozoom keyboard and the garbage collection) come in.

Regards,

Jan

Hidden panels are very useful for controlling where people can get to in your CCF.

For example, I have all my pages set to hidden, so they will only appear by jumping to them. This means that I have much more control over the interface, because I know where people are.

(this is providing they don't use the damn device tab and start playing around. I wish Philips would let us turn that off and use the whole screen)