22nd October 2008
Operating the MCP from a Browser
Take a Browser, add a basic Algol HTTP Server connected to a sophisticated MCP Scripting Engine, and the result is an extensible Web based Graphical Operator Interface. This presentation demonstrates the Browser interface and describes how the Scripting Engine models MCP information as attributes of system objects such as Files, Mix Entries and Units. These attributes, some of which are hyperlinked to related system objects, are used to dynamically generate Markup which is rendered by the Browser, thereby presenting the MCP system as a navigable Web.
- This presentation is available as a XUL Application which has been packaged as an extension to FireFox 3.
- Install FireFox 3 from http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/ .
- Navigate to http://www.metalogic.eu.com/xpi/orlando_1.0.xpi .
- Press the Install Now button in the Software Installation dialog box.
- Restart FireFox 3.
- Go to the menu and click on the option.
- On starting, attempts to connect to http://www.metalogic.eu.com/Main/news/OBI-forward.htm .
- If the connection is successful, log in as , and then press
- Loading all the pages from the LX100, may take more than a few minutes, while the Log and Disks are scanned.
- Some pages of the presentation use other FireFox 3 extensions, such as Live HTTP Headers at http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/ and HotLine at http://www.metalogic.eu.com/xpi/hotline_7.0.xpi, which can optionally be installed.
- For further information, visit the Metalogic web site at http://www.metalogic.eu.com/ , or mailto:support@www.metalogic.eu.com .
