Re: [LCtalk] application design for Lanbox (LCX)

[MyersJ]

I'm not a programmer but a friend of mine built a webpage in PHP that 
allows you to select from one of the two LCXs in our facility and then 
one of our pre-defined quelists.  The page is located on our intranet 
and is password protected.

Once you open the page you're forced to enter a password, select which 
lanbox you're connecting to and which cuelist you want to run.  After 
that the main page loads.  The main page has about 10 buttons or so, 
arranged in a vertical line, which are labeled by what light settings 
they call up (emcee, teaching, band, video, etc.).

What's exciting is that we operate this through a 17inch touch screen 
monitor.  I have about 50 volunteers so the combination of labeled 
buttons and touch screen control makes for a really simple user 
interface.  Before this application I was receiving two ongoing lines of 
complaints:
1.  Volunteers had difficulty seeing the cuelist numbers next to the 
"go" button in the control panel window.
2.  Volunteers couldn't remember the order of our cues.

This page solves both problems.

From a user standpoint it is great when it works.  The programming 
needs a bit of work to make it more stable.  Sometimes it takes a few 
button hits to effect the transition.  If nothing else what we have is 
"proof of concept."

Jeremy M. Myers
Technical Services Manager
Xenos Christian Fellowship
Please visit us at www.Xenos.org