CP insturctions display thingy (Download and Pics)

[Adam]

Greetings party people in the place to be.
I've started on a (very expensive) approach to displaying game instructions.

http://hulkamaniac.com/asse/cade/

It's basically a dynamic asp website that is viewed from a pocket PC. But you could also use a 2nd display. When a game is launched it updates a text file indicating what game is running.

When the page is loaded, the text file is checked and then the page will try to load custom instructions. If they are not found it will just load the default instructions from controls.dat or whatnot. Currently I've only hooked up the custom page loading.

I was going to set it to auto update by using a second frame to keep checking the game file and refresh the main page when it changed but Pocket Internet Explorer won't let you hide a second frame. This idea would work if you are running on a second display, but you'll need to disable IE's click sound whenever it refreshes.

[lostboy4480]

Nice idea !!!

I was trying to think of a way to do this on a PPC as I have an old one I would love to mount in my cab.

Keep up the good work !

[Adam]

So i've now got a public useable version of this if anyone's interested.

You'll need a PC running windows (but not XP Home)

[Popcorrin]

Very impressive!

[lostboy4480]

Going to download and try this tomorrow..

Will let you know how it goes.

Thank you for sharing !

LB

[Adam]

Just something i forgot to put in the readme file:

If the windows client works locally but you are having trouble connecting remotely, try just using internet explorer to open the page eg. http://server ip/index.asp. If that didn't work then you should open TCP port 80 on the firewall of the computer running the server.

Network permissions on the wwwroot folder can be a little iffy, so try sharing that folder directly if your still having problems.

[DannyH]

I would love to find a way to get this working on the same screen. This is an awesome idea. Are those zips still available