DigitalFX 4.0 - Page 103

Dougw133 · 07-20-2008, 11:58 PM

Danielkh.. I was asking because I use my verizon Phone for a network connection using a Dial Up Network. Problem is, to connect it I have to minimize the skin and double click a shortcut on the desktop. Then I can hit connect or disconnect. I have been looking for a way to just have a button that can connect and disconnect in the skin. I was curiosu if maybe it was a half solution for this. Thanks

danielkh · 07-21-2008, 12:01 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Dougw133

Danielkh.. I was asking because I use my verizon Phone for a network connection using a Dial Up Network. Problem is, to connect it I have to minimize the skin and double click a shortcut on the desktop. Then I can hit connect or disconnect. I have been looking for a way to just have a button that can connect and disconnect in the skin. I was curiosu if maybe it was a half solution for this. Thanks

Ah! Probably not as VZAccess opens another program and then you have to hit connect or disconnect. Can you set up your dialup to automatically connect? That is pretty much what the NDIS mode does.

danielkh · 07-21-2008, 12:02 AM

Here's the program if you want to play around with it.....

http://www.vzam.net/

Dougw133 · 07-21-2008, 12:36 AM

Well it is my voice phone too so it is not always plugged in. Maybe if I could get it to Auto Connect upon pluging it in, that would be great.

Dougw133 · 07-21-2008, 12:42 AM

Possibility???

I found a Program Called " ReConnect 1.0". It has some small options. The main think is it is a stand alone exe. program. I unzipped and ran it, and it already had my pre setup connection that windows DUN manager uses. I hit connect and it worked!

John: Could this work for what we discussed?

ReConnect 1.0.zip

drewbp · 07-21-2008, 01:02 AM

Yes VZAccess is for Verizon connection. I don't always have my card in so it was a way for me to connect and disconnect manually. I use the card on several computers. I have found that I usually don't need to use the program manually, just haven't had the time to retask the button.

The OBD diagnostics is just the program popping up on a blank screen in the skin. It already has pretty good finger buttons so I didn't try to reengineer it. It takes over the whole screen, so I only have a menu button on the skin, to re-navigate to the main menus, after closing the OBD program. I do not have an OBD interface yet, just preparing. It is the software with the best looking screens that I have found, but don't know the functionality yet. Here is the website.

http://www.obd-diag.de/

Dougw133 · 07-21-2008, 03:33 AM

Wow! Thanks a lot. Im more of a hardware guy myself so skinning is so foreign to me. Could explain to me just how I would implement this? Creating the button, how that button actually opens this program etc...well really everything hod to get it to work?? It would be most appreciated.

funkyphil · 07-21-2008, 10:29 AM

Thanks again you really explained it well! I finially got them to work! Thanks so much for taking the time to help me out. Have a great day.

Phil

nhra no 2 · 07-21-2008, 10:45 AM

I am having a crash problem every now and then. I believe it to be a DFX problem. Here is what happens. When I start my car, my power controller starts my carpc. The computer boots fine, then the DXF 3.0 boot screen comes up. Then instead of the main skin screen, I get a black background with the Winamp consol at the top left, and a pink sqaure to the right of it. The music dose not play, just silence. I have to close it thru the task bar, as I can't control anything. Has anyone had this problem? Any ideas of what may be causing this? Yes I can fix it by reloading RR and DXF3.0, but that is getting old. I am looking for a real fix???

drewbp · 07-21-2008, 11:22 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Dougw133

Wow! Thanks a lot. Im more of a hardware guy myself so skinning is so foreign to me. Could explain to me just how I would implement this? Creating the button, how that button actually opens this program etc...well really everything hod to get it to work?? It would be most appreciated.

In the Exectbl.ini under: Dynamic Menu Buttons, add:

"MyApp51","Load;Obdiag.skin;obd-diag;C:\Program Files\OBD-DIAG\OBD-DIAG.exe";OBD-DIAG"

Under: Pre-setup the Applications and labels into arrays, add:
<<MyApp51<<

Under: This is the label that is displayed on the Main Menu Buttons add:
<<=OBD-DIAG<< These will be self explanatory once you open Exectbl.ini .

Under :/ These are the labels for the application that will show
/ up on the screen that gives the selection of buttons to choose from, add:
"SetCommandLabels51","SETVAR;MyApp51LB;Obdiag||Set CommandLabels52"

In C:\Program Files\Road Runner\skins\DigitalFX 3.0\MenuIcons add the enclosed .png for the menu Icon.

And in C:\Program Files\Road Runner\skins\DigitalFX 3.0 add the enclosed Obd Diag Skin, and Obd diag on and off pngs. The skin opens with a full OBD screen and once you close the OBD program with its own exit function there is a menu button to navigate back to the DFX menu.

Obviously you need to download ad install the OBD Diag program also.

Also note that myapp 51 and setcommandlabels51 etc are based on where this landed in my programs. Your numbering might be different.

I think I got everything.

Dougw133 · 07-21-2008, 12:12 PM

Thanks a buunch. I attempted a Haphazard shot at embedding/skinning today.. Not so good. I will work with this, and I already found the program but thank you.

Quote:

Thanks again you really explained it well! I finially got them to work! Thanks so much for taking the time to help me out. Have a great day.

Phil

No problem Phil. Glad you got it working. That's 1 of 100,000,000 steps to come! Haha. I was on here not 8 months ago asking up a storm as I was soo new. Just keep messing with stuff. The people on this forum are wealth of knowledge. Just remember to search and search.. And oh yeah, Search again!

Dougw133 · 07-21-2008, 01:14 PM

Drew, I just learned a lot. Thank you so much for the detail and the provided files. I have the button in place and the program is launching. I set this up on my desktop. When OBD DIAG launches it is not embedded but remains at the center of the scrren. I can drag it over RR which is in the top left corner on my 22 wide monitor, it overlaps the Menu Button.

Is it supposed to be this way? As if on a 7" touch screen that will fill the screen and be centered over RR and that is why we have to hit the progs. exit? If so that's fine, like I said this is on my desk so if that is whats happening that's cool.

Once again, Thank you.

drewbp · 07-21-2008, 01:19 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Dougw133

Drew, I just learned a lot. Thank you so much for the detail and the provided files. I have the button in place and the program is launching. I set this up on my desktop. When OBD DIAG launches it is not embedded but remains at the center of the scrren. I can drag it over RR which is in the top left corner on my 22 wide monitor, it overlaps the Menu Button.

Is it supposed to be this way? As if on a 7" touch screen that will fill the screen and be centered over RR and that is why we have to hit the progs. exit? If so that's fine, like I said this is on my desk so if that is whats happening that's cool.

Once again, Thank you.

This embeds just fine with my set up, and should with yours. It does net embed correctly because of the window name in this line:

"MyApp51","Load;Obdiag.skin;obd-diag;C:\Program Files\OBD-DIAG\OBD-DIAG.exe";OBD-DIAG"

Make sure the period is not copied on that line from my previous post. It could be as simple as that. I just tried it with the period and it did not embed correctly, so delete the period.

I edited my previos post and removed the periods so this won't happen to someone else.

EL CAMINO · 07-21-2008, 02:01 PM

have a look in my signature's[Some Tools] link, i use this software, with skinbedder you can get a better integration.

Dougw133 · 07-21-2008, 02:25 PM

Quote:

This embeds just fine with my set up, and should with yours. It does net embed correctly because of the window name in this line:

"MyApp51","Load;Obdiag.skin;obd-diag;C:\Program Files\OBD-DIAG\OBD-DIAG.exe";OBD-DIAG"

Make sure the period is not copied on that line from my previous post. It could be as simple as that. I just tried it with the period and it did not embed correctly, so delete the period.

I edited my previos post and removed the periods so this won't happen to someone else.

Yeah I noticed the period and it did throw me off a little. It actually didn't even opne the program when the period was in there. Now that it is gone the program opens but not embedded. I'll do a thorough check of everything.

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