Community channel information/advertising software

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A. Mercer

Is there anything available that could be be used to automatically
present information and cycle through the screens unattended, like an
automatic slideshow with variable times for each slide?

The intended use is on a donated windows 98 workstation that a service
group wants to use to run free charitable and community service only
type ads on a community cable channel.

If a browser plugin or similar would do this it would be OK, as the
pages could be html. But anything right now would do.

TIA,
 
A. Mercer said:
Is there anything available that could be be used to automatically
present information and cycle through the screens unattended, like an
automatic slideshow with variable times for each slide?

The intended use is on a donated windows 98 workstation that a service
group wants to use to run free charitable and community service only
type ads on a community cable channel.

If a browser plugin or similar would do this it would be OK, as the
pages could be html. But anything right now would do.
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A series of splash pages would work. Each HTML page calls the next page
in the sequence. I copied this info a while back (the site seems to be
gone):

http://www.gettingstarted.net/

<META HTTP-EQUIV=refresh CONTENT="XXnumber of seconds; URL=filename">

This meta tag tells the browser to refresh the page by waiting the
specified number of seconds and then looking to the server for the
content file you specified.

There's one very important item to note when using a meta tag to refresh
a page: The tag must be the very first item in the file, even before the
opening html or header tags. If it is not the first item, some
server/browser combinations will not display the correct page after the
refresh.
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Susan
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A series of splash pages would work. Each HTML page calls the next page
in the sequence. I copied this info a while back (the site seems to be
gone):

http://www.gettingstarted.net/

<META HTTP-EQUIV=refresh CONTENT="XXnumber of seconds; URL=filename">

This meta tag tells the browser to refresh the page by waiting the
specified number of seconds and then looking to the server for the
content file you specified.

There's one very important item to note when using a meta tag to refresh
a page: The tag must be the very first item in the file, even before the
opening html or header tags. If it is not the first item, some
server/browser combinations will not display the correct page after the
refresh.
</q>

Susan
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That just might do the job, we will try it out.

I wasn't aware of that tag, and I have a fair bit of html experience. I
was thinking of something similar using javascript, but what you suggest
seems a lot simpler. So many thanks for the tip, and for all you (and
others) do here to make this a useful and pleasant newsgroup.

Thanks again,
Art
 
That just might do the job, we will try it out.

I wasn't aware of that tag, and I have a fair bit of html experience. I
was thinking of something similar using javascript, but what you suggest
seems a lot simpler. So many thanks for the tip, and for all you (and
others) do here to make this a useful and pleasant newsgroup.

Thanks again,
Art
Click to expand...

YW. KISS is my motto :) and that tag is *very* easy to use. :) Good luck
with your project.

Susan
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