Ten Foot Product Forums

[Mod1Fy]

I am using mediaportal and have my tv hooked to my PC via DVI to HDMI.
When I start Ten Foot Product from mediaportal using multishortcut plugin they start on the PC screen in my other room. I need to be able to let the program know to start on my secondary display much like you can in the general options of the mediaportal config.

The other thing is I can't view flash content such as sites like youtube. How do I get flash working with this browser.

Fantastic idea though, exactly what I need to not have to leave my couch.

[Andy Henderson]

[Mod1Fy]

Thanks for the reply.

I had to install the newest flash in IE. Never occurred to me as I use firefox.
I'll send you an email now for a test version.

Thanks
James

[dreesje]

I'm also interested in the ability to start the browser on my secondary display for the same reason as mentioned in the post of Mod1Fy.
Is this already possible, since I'm not able to do this.

The second option i'd like to have is starting the browser from a commandline with the url option, so the browser will open directly with this page (also useful for my mediaportal setup)

Kind regards,
Dreesje

[Andy Henderson]

I did prepare a version that seemed to work but I didn't get any feedback from Mod1Fy. I'll dig out the change I made so you can give it a try.

[dreesje]

Thank you for your quick response.
As soon as this version is available i'll try it

Kind regards,
dreesje

[Andy Henderson]

I've uploaded a beta version of version 3.4 to the web site. You can download it from www.SeeITA.com/TF/Version34Beta.zip.

This version includes a number of improvements including the multi-screen stuff and a much improved bittorrent client.

Before you do anything though, close all the Ten Foot programs down and please make a backup copy of the Ten Foot programs folder (by default C:\Program Files\CITA\Ten Foot Products) and your settings folder (under Vista, that's C:\Users\Your name\AppData\Roaming\CITA - NB, AppData is a hidden folder; you might need to update folder options to see it).

You can then overwrite the contents of the Ten Foot programs folder with the contents of the Version34Beta.zip file.

To start any of the apps on a different screen create a personal settings folder containing the following:

<settings>
<preferredScreen>2</preferredScreen>
</settings>

All the personal settings files have the format: Personal.[product name]Settings.xml. For example, the ten foot browser personal settings folder is: Personal.TenFootBrowserSettings.xml

The preferred screen setting causes the product to try to use the specified Windows screen. Screen 1 is the primary screen, so screen 2 is probably the right one for you. If it's invalid, the program reverts to the primary screen, so you might need to experiment with different values.

Let me know how you get on.

Andy

[dreesje]

I've checked the secondary display feature with the beta version of version 3.4 and I can confirm that it works for me.

I've created a Personal.TenFootBrowserSettings.xml with the following lines in it :
<settings>
<preferredScreen>2</preferredScreen>
</settings>

I didn't know where to put this file, but at least it worked when I put it in the same directory where I installed the TenFootBrowser.

I did different checks, also the check for the "revert to the primary screen" in case the screen is invalid and everything works as expected.
Thank you very much for this solution.

Do you also have a solution for the second question I asked you?

[Andy Henderson]

I've posted a new version of the Version34Beta.zip file that implements the command line argument you are looking for. The code doesn't perform any validation so, if you get a navigation error in the browser, check the value you are passing.

The parameter doesn't need to specify the scheme, so www.seeita.com is a valid parameter. I suggest, however, you include the scheme anyway; so www.seeita.com becomes http://www.seeita.com.

[dreesje]

Thank you very much,

I checked the new version with the commandline argument and it works exactly as I would like it. With these solutions I can use the TenFootBrowser the way I'd like in my Mediaportal environment.

Thank you again for your great support.

Kind regards,
Dreesje