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Activity Based 7000 PCF with Help Menus
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| Topic: | Activity Based 7000 PCF with Help Menus This thread has 15 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Monday January 23, 2006 at 09:50 |
Marky_Mark896 Select Member |
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Hey guys, I am so happy with the 7000. I had to post to tell everyone. After owning my 7000 for a good year and a half...I finally sat down the night before last and gutted my pcf and made it useful to anyone that walked up to the system. I had always figured that a good activity based pcf with help screens would be too much work to make it bulletproof. I was wrong. It took me only one night (I stayed up until 4am) of programming to get it to work flawlessly. I used the builtin graphics that comes with PPENG, and was finally able to make something that looked good with those "classic" backgrounds and "birch" buttons. I handed it to my wife last night, who up until now, has been afraid to touch the remote, or use our plasma or whole house audio, or play a cd... She and my 3 year old started pushing buttons, and couldn't mess it up. I am thrilled with it, and she wants me to program one for the bedroom's system now. If anyone wants to look at it, let me know and I'll email it to you. It's not the prettiest pcf by a long shot, but it works great and makes it simple for anyone to control a complex system. She can even use the HTPC now, which she has never messed with. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not....now I'll never get her off it. Once you use a pc on a 55" monitor, you never want to go back to a 15" laptop screen.
Anyways...I was so excited I just had to post about it...now I'm done...
Later,
Mark
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| Post 2 made on Monday January 23, 2006 at 10:35 |
Mark Nolan Founding Member |
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That sounds very interesting, but why not upload your pcf here so everyone can enjoy it.
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| OP | Post 3 made on Monday January 23, 2006 at 10:42 |
Marky_Mark896 Select Member |
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Well...I guess I could. I just never thought of it.
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| Post 4 made on Monday January 23, 2006 at 13:00 |
Timay Long Time Member |
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[quote]If anyone wants to look at it, let me know and I'll email it to you. [/quote]
I'd love to see it! You can send it via email to tim at armagost.net, or upload it here, as has been suggested!
Thanks!
Tim
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| OP | Post 5 made on Monday January 23, 2006 at 13:37 |
Marky_Mark896 Select Member |
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Ok Tim. I sent it to you. Let me know what you think.
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| OP | Post 6 made on Monday January 23, 2006 at 13:45 |
Marky_Mark896 Select Member |
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Mark,
I'll send it to Daniel as soon as I finish updating the source control pages. They still need some work.
Mark
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| Post 7 made on Monday January 23, 2006 at 14:22 |
tommylaws Long Time Member |
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On January 23, 2006 at 09:50, Marky_Mark896 said...
Hey guys, I am so happy with the 7000. I had
to post to tell everyone. After owning my 7000
for a good year and a half...I finally sat down
the night before last and gutted my pcf and made
it useful to anyone that walked up to the system.
I had always figured that a good activity based
pcf with help screens would be too much work to
make it bulletproof. I was wrong. It took me
only one night (I stayed up until 4am) of programming
to get it to work flawlessly. I used the builtin
graphics that comes with PPENG, and was finally
able to make something that looked good with those
"classic" backgrounds and "birch" buttons. I
handed it to my wife last night, who up until
now, has been afraid to touch the remote, or use
our plasma or whole house audio, or play a cd...
She and my 3 year old started pushing buttons,
and couldn't mess it up. I am thrilled with it,
and she wants me to program one for the bedroom's
system now. If anyone wants to look at it, let
me know and I'll email it to you. It's not the
prettiest pcf by a long shot, but it works great
and makes it simple for anyone to control a complex
system. She can even use the HTPC now, which
she has never messed with. I'm not sure if that's
a good thing or not....now I'll never get her
off it. Once you use a pc on a 55" monitor, you
never want to go back to a 15" laptop screen.
Anyways...I was so excited I just had to post
about it...now I'm done...
Later,
Mark
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| Post 8 made on Monday January 23, 2006 at 14:23 |
tommylaws Long Time Member |
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Mark: Could you please email it to me at: [email protected]Thanks and, may I suggest, you may wish to post it so others can directly enjoy it as well. Tom
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| OP | Post 9 made on Monday January 23, 2006 at 17:16 |
Marky_Mark896 Select Member |
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Ok Tommy I sent it to you.
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| Post 10 made on Tuesday January 24, 2006 at 17:50 |
ddarche Mr. RemoteQuest |
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MM - Ya gotta love a slick activity-based config! I also appreciate your enthusiasm!
Dave
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| Post 11 made on Wednesday January 25, 2006 at 14:55 |
Texas Steve Long Time Member |
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On January 23, 2006 at 17:16, Marky_Mark896 said...
Ok Tommy I sent it to you. Please email to me as well. [email protected]
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| OP | Post 12 made on Wednesday January 25, 2006 at 18:58 |
Marky_Mark896 Select Member |
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Ok Steve, I sent it to you too. It's just about to the point where it's ready to post on RC.com... Still some minor changes that take time, but overall I'm pretty happy with it.
Mark
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| Post 13 made on Thursday January 26, 2006 at 07:17 |
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| Post 14 made on Thursday January 26, 2006 at 12:50 |
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On January 26, 2006 at 07:17, Philthy said...
On January 23, 2006 at 09:50, Marky_Mark896 said...
If anyone wants to look at it, let me know and I'll email it to you. Hey, I'd like a peek at that too. Thanks, Phil. philthy@_REMOVE_THIS_boldbelvoir.org.ukMe, too Gary Hamilton [email protected]
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| OP | Post 15 made on Thursday January 26, 2006 at 13:37 |
Marky_Mark896 Select Member |
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I emailed it to Daniel to post on the site, but I'll send it to you guys as well.
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