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27/11/2007 10:53
 
Stumbled across your program, and from what we've seen, it looks really good. Nice clean interface and does what it says on the tin.
What we're looking for is something that can run a notices screen in a lobby, so all that screen monkey does, but also a couple of un-attended operation features - auto step between screens and loop.
Any plans for these?
We also tend to use a flash animation that is served from our website and pulls in RSS feeds of news announcements. Screen monkey seems to download the flash file from the website rather than just run it. Would it be possible to have a web page view as one of the media sources? I've seen theatres use this technique in their lobbys, serving a webpage sized and laid out correctly with auto-refresh.

The icing on the cake for unattended operation would be a "shutdown PC at <time>" too. Could this be written as a plug-in? I'm happy to help write plugins.

Thanks
Matt.

 
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28/11/2007 00:09
 
You will be pleased to hear that both auto step and loop are features that will be in the next version. You can do these both with the new link feature which allows you to link clips together and set them to play automatically after a time or when they end. You can also use the link to link back to the start clip in order to loop all the clips, as well as link a clip to itself so it loops.

You do not have long to wait as Version 3 will be released on Monday.

A clip that displays a web page has been on my list for a while and would be fairly straight forward to do, I just have not got around to it. I will try and find time to do this and release it as a plugin.

I am struggling to see why it would be better to shut the PC down from Screen Monkey rather than some other software but I am sure you have good reasons. It is probably an indication that I have miss-understood your requirements. It would be great if you are happy to write a plugin to do this. I have not written an SDK yet but now you have requested this I will start work on it. It is relatively easy to write plugins. Once I have finished the SDK I will let you know.


 
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28/11/2007 12:30
 
That's excellent news. I look forward to seeing the release.

The shutdown thing was only a thought of convenience - office staff can maintain all the settings for running a presentation in one place, and having it shutdown after a sequence of say videos and slides is nice and tidy.

Do you also have richtext clips in the new version?
An alpha-blended logo in the corner of every clip would also be nice, but now I'm really pushing it...;)

 
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29/11/2007 12:55
 
It would definatly be easy to write a shutdown PC plugin, I am writting the SDK at the moment and should be finished soon.

A text clip is again something I have been meaning to do but have not had time. I need to do this though for a project I am working on so will have to do it soon. You can bizarly though have scrolling text, this is because someone else kindly wrote this plugin for me. So version 3 will have scrolling text but not static text.

You can definatly do a transparent colour as version 3 supports a single colour key. All you would need to do was make the background of the clip the transparency colour. As you also have layers you could just run the logo on a seperate layer. I will have a look at ways of supporting alpha blending, it would be realy cool :-)

Keep coming with the good ideas!
 
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