I need to develop an intercative with a touchscreen and a plasma screen, The
intercativity has to be on the touchscreen and what the plasma screen displays
depends on that interactivity. In other words, The plasma screen only has to
display the option that user choose from a menu on the touchscreen (the menu is
always visible on the touchscreen). How can I do it?... Thanks for your help.

The easiest option would be to connect both screens to the same computer, and
share the desktop between them. You could then make the stage stretch across
both screens, and place the controller elements on the part of the stage that
appears on the touch screen and the view elements on the part that appears on
the plasma screen. The screens do not need to be placed physically in the same
positions as they are set up for the desktop-sharing.

A more complex system might use a Movie In A Window for the controls, and use
"tell the stage" to display the non-interactive elements on the stage, which
would appear on the plasma screen.

Finally, if the distance between the touch screen and the plasma screen is so
great that you cannot run both connection cables from the same machine, then
you could set up a simple peer-to-peer multiuser system between two machines on
the same network. If you choose this option, and are not familiar with
Director's multiuser xtra, then it might make sense to take the discussion to
the
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforu...d=11&catid=188
&entercat=y.

Ok, Thanks a lot...The last scenary is the correct, so I have to try with 2 machines and of course research about it. Thank you for your help.

I've done a fair amount of "experimenting" with using the MUS xtra to
make a P2P application. It's fairly easy to make one movie that can
sends messages over a network to control another.

I've got some code I would be happy to share if you are interested.
email me at d g c w e b a t b e l l s o u t h d o t n e t (remove the
spaces and replace with the symbols).


arq wrote:
> Ok, Thanks a lot...The last scenary is the correct, so I have to try with 2 machines and of course research about it. Thank you for your help.

i have done a lot of both, as i do mostly work for museum installations.

Unless there is a physical limitation (such as the cable distance mentioned
above), do NOT do the peer-to-peer. P2P is great, good and solid, but just is
not worth the effort and the research. not to mention that you will need 2 PCs
(well, that depends)

a decent quality dual head graphic card will give you a 2304x1024 stage and as
openspark mentioned, you just show the relevant part of the stage on the
coresponding monitor/projector.

with a bit more detail on your project, i may be able to give you a better
advice. like i said, i have been down this road way too many times

The OP never got back with me, but I have created parent script and a
'configuration' tool that generates the Lingo to call the parent script.
Using these it takes very little research or effort to setup a P2P
connection using the multiuser xtra.

However I do agree, if the distance is not too great and the OP has the
ability to dictate the hardware, the dual head graphics card is probably
the way to go.


rechtut wrote:
> i have done a lot of both, as i do mostly work for museum installations.
>
> Unless there is a physical limitation (such as the cable distance mentioned
> above), do NOT do the peer-to-peer. P2P is great, good and solid, but just is
> not worth the effort and the research. not to mention that you will need 2 PCs
> (well, that depends)
>
> a decent quality dual head graphic card will give you a 2304x1024 stage and as
> openspark mentioned, you just show the relevant part of the stage on the
> coresponding monitor/projector.
>
> with a bit more detail on your project, i may be able to give you a better
> advice. like i said, i have been down this road way too many times
>

dave, i will SO very happily take your script and tool; use it whenever i can
and in return praise your name to the gods of lingo every chance i get.

e: misha(that funny little symbol)cyan-animatica(dot)com