Grafical components of the Infopanels system:
Text
A component displaying the text. Because the info panels are most interactive, the components ensure that the text is always wholly displayed (the component either decreases the size of the font or scrolls through the text). Label text can contain.
Running text
This component displays running text. It can contain static text or text gathered dynamically from the data source.
Image
All common bitmap formats are supported. Transparency is supported. It is possible to enlarge the image, zoom and display it in tiles, etc. The image can be static or dynamic taken from the external source.
Date and time
This displays the date and time in a week, etc. Formatting is possible according to the language.
Analogue clock
The analogue clock component enables to set the colours and transparency of the background.
Media player
This component can play video (supported video format is WMV - Windows media video, or common AVI format which can play a standard installed Windows media player. If necessary, it can play, e.g. DivX, on a PC (in addition to the player there must be the respective codec), PPT presentations (PowerPoint 97 presentations are supported), display web pages and images. The content can be static or can be dynamically taken from the InfoPanels database. The player then displays, e.g. actual data assigned to a presentation.
Arrow
The component serves as an indicator for the direction. It is possible to select from the default types of arrows, to turn the direction, select the colour of the arrow and the background. The direction which the indicator shows can be taken dynamically from the data source.
Data list
This component enables to display the list, e.g. the list of events in the hotel or any table from the data source. The location of individual information in the list is designed again with a “drag and drop” style. The list always consists of “tiles” which can be formatted into one or more columns. Each “tile” contains allocated components (Text, Image, Arrow, etc.) and assigned data sources. The whole data list is then connected to a data source and displays data from the table of the data source. If data cannot be located in the whole list, the component locates it on pages. For the switching between individual pages it is possible to select many animations. The DataList is multilingual, i.e. if data is in more languages it is again displayed in the actual language.
Table
This component enables to allocate the other components. In fact it is a grid, aid for allocation. The table can have a transparent background, single-colour background or colour transition. There can be an image in the background. Transparency is supported for images.
Weather
This component displays information about weather forecasting. The data source is a channel in the yahoo format..
Flash player
This component enables to play any fl ash presentation. The source can be static or dynamic.