I will try to explain this as best I can.


I have a client with a meeting room that they want me to program a Pronto 9600 for. In the room there is a DVD, Video Conferencing, Cable TV, and three computers connected to a VGA switcher for presentations... On the home page of the Pronto there are buttons for the DVD, VC, Cable, and Laptop A, B, and C. The client wants me to make it so that when they press the one of the Laptop Buttons it stays on the home page and the button turns red for that particular Laptop (and stays red) until they press another button.

my question is : Is there another way to accomplish this without making three different home pages just with a different color button for those laptops ?




I hope i explained myself well.


-nooshi

Only using ProntoScript.

With Prontoscript it is easy.

In essence you will have multiple buttons each at the same position each with a different tag (pronto script name) Perhaps something like RedButtonOne, GreenButton1, .... Each with the same (or different action lists)

In the prontoScript code you will merely adjust the visibility of the buttons so only the one of the color you want is showing. It is actual fairly simple. The prontoscript code goes as the script for the buttons action.

Nooshi,

In your separate home page scheme, you would need to have three sets of the device pages too, because the target of the Home button must change. If you make changes in a device page, you must remember to push them to all three "devices". In such a simple setup you can copy and paste each device in order to create three sets, then link each set's home buttons back to the appropriate "home" page. The projector buttons would simply jump to another "home" page.

Depending on your level of comfort with JavaScript, learning ProntoScript might take longer than the above brute force approach, but you would would then have ProntoScript in your toolkit.

With ProntoScript, you'll need to swap button images or fiddle with button visibility and remember which computer is currently selected. An advantage of using ProntoScript is that there will be only one set of device pages, you will not need to push changes to the other sets.

This is a very easy first ProntoScript program.

Either of these approaches has a flaw because the Pronto can't know if someone changed inputs directly from the video switch's control panel or with another remote -- unless your switch has something that an RFX9600 can sense. With an RFX9600 on the job, you'll want to use ProntoScript.

What I did was make 3 home pages....

You press Laptop A and the button switches the VGA switcher to Laptop A, turns red, and waits for the next command... It switches to a new home page (of course) where the button is red and inactive...

I am not familiar with java script. Maybe I ought to be.

-Noosh