Re: Desktop Panel creation

[James <james@xxxxxxx>]

Glenn,

So of this should be possible. Collecting an html and extracting the
lat/long should be ok, but for display in Desktop it needs to be an
image which is where it will get tricky. In the partner program to
Dekstop, Touchscreen, I have an embedded web browser I'll look at
getting that ported over. That might take a while as HomeSeer will take
up most of my time for a while.  It is possible to make a button in a
Desktop panel to launch a web page ( see the news display for an
example) but it's not exactly ideal either. I'll think on on this issue
as it would be very, very nice to see a googlemaps page in Desktop. It
may be possible to use Switchboard as a sort of proxy and for it to do
some conversions as required.

James

Sullivan, Glenn wrote:

>I decided to have a bit of a play with the Google maps api, and thought
>it would be cool to use my results in a xAP Desktop Panel, but I'm not
>sure where to start.
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>I wrote a quick little .NET app that does this:
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>1. Does a generic Google search for a phone number
>    Most US phone numbers give "Google Phonebook" results
when searched
>for, but of course,
>    their Search API doesn't, so I have to scrub the HTML... Try
>5087566216 for an example
>2. If there are results, do a Google maps search for their address
>    Unless someone know a better way to geocode an address... I have
>found that, if I do a
>    regular Google maps search, I get back an address with "center
lat=
>lng=  " results
>3. Compose a Google maps api page with that address, and the people's
>names that live there (as listed in the phonebook)
>4. Load IE with that page.
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>So I basically want to do the same thing, but in a desktop panel... Is
>it possible? I have the code (I can make it VBScript if I have to) or I
>could make my app be a command line app that just generates a web page,
>but is it possible to display a web page in a desktop panel?
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>Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
>David Clark Company Inc.
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