I want to cycle through images (slide show) for the bottom half of the net display. We just went live three days ago with three POS stations. We've got a couple of websites on there now (http://) and that's displaying fine.
From what I can tell, net display only works with HTML files. So if I want to show a JPEG or GIF file, I need to embed the image in a HTML file (a web page just sitting on the POS hard drive). (I'm assuming I can't get away with just putting a JPEG file in the net display dialog box.)
Here's some sample code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Title Not Used</title>
</head>
<body>
<img name="ImageNameNotUsed" src="c:/CustomFiles/CustomerDisplayImage.jpg" width="1280" height="512" alt="" />
</body>
</html>
I save the HTML file and type the path:
c:\CustomFiles\CustomerDisplayImage.htm
Into the net display dialog box, but when I click "Preview" I get nothing.
FWIW, I also tried backslashes in the file path in the HTML file too, just in case. (I'm more of a Unix guy and that Windows doesn't follow Unix, Web, or Mac path conventions drives me nuts.)
Suggestions??
Thanks folks!
Andrew
p.s. Yes, I could just host the photos on our website online, but I don't want to use up the bandwidth pulling photos every 20 seconds.