Anders Hesselbom

Tag: The Wall

User interaction: GetItemAt and GetItemsAt
2010-07-09

Edit: This post concerns "The Wall", a discontinued project. GetItemAt The GetItemAt function returns the graphical item (text item, bar item, numeric item) that exists at a given position, in characters. If no item exists at the given position [...]

Tweaking the wall, part 3/3: Startup script
2010-07-04

Edit: This post concerns "The Wall", a discontinued project. The basic rule is that a VBScript file called TheWall.vbs that is placed in the same folder as TheWall.exe is loaded when TheWall.exe is started. Remember that you start TheWall.exe, not [...]

Tweaking the wall, part 2/3: Using the graphics drawing interface
2010-07-03

Edit: This post concerns "The Wall", a discontinued project. The BeforUpdate and AfterUpdate callback functions are basically used to allow custom graphics to be drawn below or above it. The graphics drawing interface is passed as an argument to t [...]

Tweaking the wall, part 1/3: Before and after update
2010-06-25

Edit: This post concerns "The Wall", a discontinued project. The Wall has some support for free drawing. This can either be done before or after updating the screen. Any drawing that is done before updating will be displayed behind registered obje [...]

A demo is available
2010-06-22

Edit: This post concerns "The Wall", a discontinued project. The Wall is an intelligent home component that can display and update text items, numeric values and bars. Also, The Wall can react to mouse clicks from a computer mouse or from a touch [...]

Handling user input from The Wall
2010-02-23

Edit: This post concerns "The Wall", a discontinued project. Please read this first. This post shows how detect mouse input in The Wall. The Wall provides functionality for displaying data on a screen, an important component for anyone building [...]

Bars in The Wall
2010-02-21

Edit: This post concerns "The Wall", a discontinued project. Please read this first. This post shows how to display bars using The Wall. Bars are created using the RegisterBarItem function. These are the arguments: Parameter 1: UpdateFrequen [...]

Numeric values in The Wall
2010-02-18

Edit: This post concerns "The Wall", a discontinued project. Please read this first. This post shows how to display text numeric using The Wall. To register a numeric item, call the RegisterNumericItem function. It takes the same arguments as t [...]

The most basic panel for The Wall
2010-02-17

Edit: This post concerns "The Wall", a discontinued project. Please read this first. This post shows how to display text values using The Wall. This is a very simple panel. To run it, place this code in a file called TheWall.vbs, place it next [...]

Introducing The Wall
2010-02-16

Edit: This post concerns "The Wall", a discontinued project. The Wall is an important component for anyone who is designing or building an intelligent home. The Wall takes care of collecting and displaying data and optionally handling touch screen [...]