Any sign of a Win8 tile yet ?

[pjgregory]

With my Microsoft Surface Pro on its way, I am looking again at my NewUI templates. I have already made a custom tile with static image to launch the CQC house controller, but it would be really nice to have a dynamic tile that can be updated by actions in the event server.

I still think that the best approach would be to create it as a Device Driver, with a few write only fields for image url's and the 3 lines of text that can be changed. Varying the number of lines and the text size would be a bonus. There are tile development kits on the Microsoft web site in C, c++, XML to allow updating a tile by TCPIP so it should not be too difficult.

Maybe if enough people express an interest, Dean could have a look at this once he surfaces from all the low level stuff he has been doing recently.

PJG

[ellisr63]

Would you have to have the "Pro"?

[znelbok]

I was just thinking the same thing this week.

Not so much for the pro, but RT on the MS tablet. Would be a nice handheld remote to complete against the iPad.

Also, we need to get something going for Windows Phone.

Mick

[pjgregory]

As it stands you need the Surface Pro as it runs full Win8 so you can just use a normal CQC client. To run CQC on the Surface, someone would have to write a RIVA client as win8RT app, and I don't think that on anyone's agenda.

PJG

[ellisr63]

As it stands you need the Surface Pro as it runs full Win8 so you can just use a normal CQC client. To run CQC on the Surface, someone would have to write a RIVA client as win8RT app, and I don't think that on anyone's agenda.

PJG

:-( We have a surface but no pro.

[Dean Roddey]

It's not that RT is not on our agenda, we just aren't in a position to do it at the moment.

[znelbok]

I thought that the "standard" program could be re-compiled for RT using MS' new compiler - something like that anyway.

Regarldess, as a dedicated interface device, the Pro is too much money. The RT would be a great iPad alternative.

[Dean Roddey]

No, unfortunately, as with iOS and CE and Android, even with the advances in performance these days, the vendors of these products still feel that they need to create a separate OS instead of a more scalable primary OS product.

It's understandable I guess, since having that scalable an OS is probably a pretty brutal undertaking, but the price paid for not doing it is very high as well. OTOH, if you are trying to create a new desktop and app paradigm, I guess that's one way to make it happen, by not supporting the old apps. Doing so will end up getting you into a "neither this nor that" situation, which some folks have complained about with full Windows 8 I guess.