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<p><img height="419" src="simpleBrowser-ss.jpg" width="557"></p>
<h1><font size="3">This program was developed to provide users with a internet
browser that can be operated by a remote control and that is integrated
well with myHTPC. It reads and uses all of the key commands that each
user has specified within myHTPC so there is no fiddling with girder or
other programs to provide full remote capability. </font></h1>
<p> </p>
<h1 class="style3"><font size="4">Requirements: </font></h1>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">Internet Explorer 6 </font>
<li><font size="3">.NET Runtime version 1.1 (not just 1.0) installed.
<a href="http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en">Here
</a> is the download link if you don't already have it, or just use
Windows Update. </font></li>
</ul>
<h1 class="style3"> </h1>
<h1 class="style3"><a name="Installation"></a><font size="4">Installation:
</font></h1>
<blockquote>
<p><font size="3">Run the simpleBrowser.msi program and follow all the
prompts to complete installation. When it is finished installing, you
will want to add a new Programs module in the myHTPCConfigure.exe program.
Here is a screenshot with the settings needed: </font></p>
<p><img height="335" src="simpleBrowserSetup.jpg" width="538"></p>
</blockquote>
<h1 class="style3"><a name="Features"></a><font size="4">Features: </font></h1>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">Fullscreen Internet Browser display </font>
<li><font size="3">Full keyboard command ability using myHTPC key mapping
settings and mouse support </font>
<li><font size="3">On-screen keyboard to use for filling in web forms</font>
<li><font size="3">Provides the users Internet Favorites in a list for
the user to navigate to </font>
<li><font size="3">Enlarging of text to make browsing a pleasant experience
from a distance </font>
<li><font size="3">Navigation of links on current page by remote </font></li>
<li><font size="3">RSS News reader built in </font>
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<p> </p>
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</li>
<table border="1">
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<td>Remote control capability </td>
<td>All of the navigation keys are read from what you have set in
the myHTPC Configure program. So there is nothing else to do for
this. </td>
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<td>Mouse capability </td>
<td>The mouse can also be used for simpleBrowser navigation. Turn
on the toolbar by clicking on the title bar at the top of the window.
Once it appears you can select the different options there. All
options have tooltips available.
<p><img height="27" src="toolbar.jpg" width="141"></p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</ul>
<h1 class="style3"><a name="Instructions"></a><font size="4">Instructions
</font></h1>
<blockquote>
<p><font size="3">The popup menu inside allow you to perform the following
options: </font></p>
<p><img height="216" src="menu-ss.jpg" width="120"></p>
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<li><strong>Navigate links on the current page</strong></li>
</ul></td>
<td width="66%"><p><img height="124" src="link-navigator-ss.jpg" width="359"></p>
<p>Selecting this option will allow you to select a link on the current
page by showing a target that you can use to move around the screen
until you see a link you wish to goto. Hit Enter and the link will
be selected and it will goto that link destination and return to
the normal scrolling mode so you can scroll around the screen with
the arrow keys. </p></td>
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<td bordercolor="1"> <ul>
<li><strong>Browse internet favorites </strong></li>
</ul></td>
<td bordercolor="1"><p><img src="favorites-ss.jpg" width="292" height="369" align="left">Allows
you to access your own internet favorites, including any special
folders you have setup, so you don't have to type internet address
to navigate to them. Just highlight the one you want to use and
hit Enter and you will be taken to that address. </p>
<p>The RSS News folder is a list of RSS Feeds that you can browse.
The RSS sites are in the RSSFeeds.xml file in the simpleBrowser
directory. You can add new ones by adding them to that file, or
by navigating to them in simpleBrowser and selecting the 'Add to
Favorite' menu option.</p></td>
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<td><ul>
<li><strong>Enter a URL: </strong></li>
</ul></td>
<td><p>Using this selection, you have the option of typing in an address
to navigate to. All entries are kept in a history so you can navigate
any past entries here by moving over to the two little arrows to
the right of the text box and hitting them to scroll through all
of your previous selections. </p>
<p><img height="184" src="simpleBrowser-keyboard.jpg" width="540"></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="middle"> <ul>
<li><strong>Change Settings</strong></li>
</ul></td>
<td><p><img src="simpleBrowser-settings.jpg" width="500" height="375"></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Font Size</strong> - Use this setting if you just want
to change the size of the text on webpages. 1 is very small, 7
is very large. Use 0 to just use the default setting. To make
the entire page larger use the Zoom setting instead.</li>
<li><strong># of pixels cursor moves in Navigator mode </strong>-
This is how many pixels the cursor moves with each press of an
arrow key when you are navigating links. </li>
<li><strong>Window scroll speed</strong> - This setting lets you
set the amount the window scrolls up/down/left/right when you
are scrolling the window.</li>
<li><strong>Key repeat rate</strong> - Use this setting to be able
to accelerate the mouse cursor when you are navigating links.
If you remote supports repeated key presses with the key held
down, then leave this at 0. If your remote doesn't support this,
then set to something like 0.5 or 1.0 to be able to accelerate
the cursor with each press of the key as long as it is within
0.5 or 1 second of each other.</li>
<li><strong>Show Splash Screen? - </strong>Checking this option
will show the splash screen on startup.</li>
<li><strong>Show Hovering Link? - </strong>Checking this will show
a little popup window with the target URL when the mouse cursor
is over a link. The popup window automatically hides after a few
seconds.</li>
<li><strong>Zoom Webpage Size</strong> - This option will enlarge
the entire webpage a certain percentage. Choose from 100% (normal)
up to twice as large in 20% increments.</li>
<li><strong>Desktop to display browser on</strong> - Use this setting
to specify which desktop in Windows to display this browser on.
Use the number from the Windows->Control Panel->Display
Settings dialog box. </li>
<li><strong>Autohide the TitleBar</strong> - Check this setting
to hide the titlebar at the top of the screen. It will autohide
so that if you goto the top of the screen, you can access it quickly
and then move the cursor away it will disappear again.</li>
<li><strong>Use On-screen keyboard</strong> - Check this setting
if you want to use the built in On-screen keyboard in simpleBrowser.
Turned on by default.</li>
<li><strong>Use Mouse Gestures</strong> - This setting will allow
you to use a few Mouse Gestures, the History navigation Forward
and Back, and the Reload/Refresh command. See this page for information
on using Mouse Gestures: <a href="http://www.opera.com/features/mouse/">Mouse
Gestures</a></li>
</ul></td>
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<h1> </h1>
<h1><a name="Parameters"></a><font size="4">Command Line Parameters: </font></h1>
<blockquote>
<p><font size="3"><strong>/url=</strong> Use this parameter to set the
internet address that simpleBrowser goes to on startup. For example
to use www.myhtpc.net as the startup address, then use this as the parameter:
<strong>/url=www.myhtpc.net</strong> </font></p>
</blockquote>
<h1 class="style3"><a name="Keys"></a><font size="4">Remote Key capabilities
(these are the keys that you programmed into myHTPC):</font></h1>
<p class="style3"><font size="3">These key settings are set in the myHTPC
Configure program under 'Remote Control'. Using the Keys page of the Settings
screen in simpleBrowser, you can change the mapping between these keys
and ones used in myHTPC.</font></p>
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<p><strong><font size="3">Play</font></strong><font size="3"> - Will refresh
the current page </font></p>
<p><strong><font size="3">Channel Down</font></strong><font size="3">
-Will scroll down the page </font></p>
<p><strong><font size="3">Channel Up</font></strong><font size="3"> -
Will scroll up the page </font></p>
<p><font size="3"><strong>FFW</strong> - Will go forward in the browser
history </font></p>
<p><font size="3"><strong>REW </strong>- Will go backward in the browser
history </font></p>
<p><font size="3"><strong>Back </strong>- Will bring up a menu that allows
you to navigate onscreen links, access your internet favorites, and
exit out of the program. </font></p>
<p><font size="3"><strong>Arrow keys</strong> - Allow navigation around
menus and scrolling around on the page. If you are in the ' Navigate
onscreen links ' mode, the arrow keys will move around the link selection
target allowing you to select any link on the page quickly and easily.
Otherwise the arrow keys will scroll up, down, left, and right around
the page. </font></p>
<p><font size="3"><strong>Enter</strong> - Will select the currently highlighted
link on screen if in ' Navigate onscreen links ' mode. </font></p>
<p><font size="3"><strong>Navigation Mode</strong> - Will toggle the Link
Navigation Mode on/off. </font></p>
</blockquote>
<strong><font size="3"> </font></strong>
<ul>
</ul>
<h1> </h1>
<h1 class="style3"><a name="History"></a><font size="4">History: </font></h1>
<p class="style3"> </p>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">2.0 -11/26/2003</font>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">Added RSS reader functionality. You can access
the RSS feeds from the Favorites popup menu. You will notice that
the first link in your favorites list is now <strong>RSS News. </strong>I
have included a few to get started with. You can change and add
items either by going to a page on the internet and then select
the 'Add Favorite' from the simpleBrowser menu. The other way you
can add them is by manually entering them in the <strong>RSSFeeds.xml</strong>
file inside the simpleBrowser directory. </font></li>
<li><font size="3">Fixed a lot of the little wierd problems in the
browser: </font>
<ol>
<li><font size="3">Clicking the scrollbars problem is fixed</font></li>
<li><font size="3">You can now move around in a text box on a
webpage (although there is still a problem with using On-screen
keyboard that it doesn't update the display to show where the
cursor actually is in the text box) </font></li>
<li><font size="3">Can select text from a webpage</font></li>
<li><font size="3"> Right click the browser window to bring up
normal IE context menu works now</font></li>
<li><font size="3">You can even navigate links now with the Tab
key just like in the normal IE.</font></li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><font size="3">Added a few Mouse Gestures, the ones for navigation
Back and Forward in the history, and Reload (Refreshes the browser).
You can turn Mouse Gestures on/off from the Settings screen.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Added a progress bar for the page loading progress.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Added arrows to the onscreen keyboard; and on password
fields, the text isn't shown to the user as you type it in.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Added a new key to toggle between Link Navigation
mode and regular mode. You can change it in the Settings screen
under the Keys page. By default it uses the 'Guide' key from myHTPC
and is F9.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Added a new setting to allow you to turn off the
On-screen keyboard from popping up when textboxes are clicked in.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Worked on the Splash screen to fix the problem
with it hanging up. It is still off by default, but can be turned
on by using the Settings screen.</font></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><font size="3">1.5.2 - 10/30/2003 </font>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">Added a setting to Autohide the titlebar. If you
choose to hide the titlebar, it will stay hidden until you put the
mouse at the top of the window, then it will stay shown until you
move the mouse away from it (ie. like the Autohide for the windows
Taskbar).</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Made all the On-screen keyboard characters larger
and made it generally more pleasing to the eye. Now if you use a
mouse it will highlight each key as you hover over them. Also fixed
a minor bug when you use a mouse on the keyboard.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Changed the way the Navigating links functionality
is handled. The Menu item in the Popup menu now acts as a toggle
turning OFF the link navigation mode. Also link navigation can be
cancelled by just cliking the mouse or hitting Enter on an empty
part of the page. So now navigating to another page doesn't get
rid of navigating link mode anymore.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Fixed a problem with clicking on the titlebar with
the mouse; if you used overscan offsets from the top of the screen
it didn't work properly.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Fixed a problem with navigating links going left-to-right,
it wasn't scrolling the window when it got to each edge.</font></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><font size="3">1.5.1 - 10/24/2003 </font>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">Added a new page to the settings screen so that
you can change each key used in simpleBrowser to a corresponding
key function in myHTPC.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Added a fix for user having trouble with on-screen
keyboard</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Default path for simpleBrowser is now <strong>myHTPC/simpleBrowser
</strong>so that future versions don't have a different installation
path.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Added an extra 'Exit' key command that just quickly
exits simpleBrowser.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Fixed a couple of annoying flicker problems with
the popup menu and controls on the Settings screen.</font></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><font size="3">1.5 (10/14/2003) </font>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">Fixed issues with certain pages not resizing correctly,
all pages should now be uniformly enlarged. It will now work for
the myHTPC forum even! </font></li>
<li><font size="3">Added a 'tooltip' popup window that shows you where
you are about to navigate to. You can, of course, turn this option
off by changing it in the Settings screen.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Changed the way the mouse acceleration works for
navigating on the page. If your remote setup doesn't support repeated
keypresses with the key held down, then you will need to change
the new 'Repeat Rate' setting to something like 0.5 or 1.0. Read
the Settings screen section above for more details.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Fixed the onscreen keyboard for the Shift function.
It now acts as a toggle like it should.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Moved the 'desktop' parameter to the Settings screen.
Also fixed this desktop setting for some instances where it was
not set correctly.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Fixed a flicker problem when a menu or the On-screen
keyboard was brought up.</font></li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
</li>
<li><font size="3">1.4 </font>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">All Menus will now wrap back to the top and vice
versa</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Added a Splash screen.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Added mouse acceleration when you are navigating
a page. You can make the actual mouse movement small, but when you
hold a button down to navigate it will accelerate to get you to
where you want to go faster.To change this setting, go to the new
Settings dialog box. </font></li>
<li><font size="3">The Settings dialog box is now a window that can
be navigated with just a remote control (in addition to the normal
mouse operation) so you never have to pick up the mouse even for
changing settings. </font></li>
<li><font size="3">Fixed a problem with the Favorites menu: the little
arrows at the top were not working correctly for mouse users. </font></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">1.3 </font></li>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">Fixed mouse wheel scrolling so it works anywhere
on the page now. </font>
<li><font size="3">Added Alt-F4 to close the program and also uses the
Exit key in myHTPC (by default F12). </font>
<li><font size="3">Improved onscreen keyboard: uses a regular QWERTY
style keyboard with all 'normal' keys now available. Also navigating
when at the edge of the keyboard will scroll to opposite side to help
for quicker key input. </font></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">1.2 </font>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">Added the ability to use the onscreen keyboard
(picture above) to enter text into text boxes on a web page. It
is a little elementary since I have to catch each keypress to send
to the web page's text area. For example, right now you can't highlight
a section of text to delete or use arrows to insert into a particular
part of a text box. Also if use a regular keyboard, a lot of keys
I don't process right now. Basically I only process the keys that
are on my on-screen keyboard. </font>
<li><font size="3">Added some more characters and a few common strings(.com,
www., and .net) to the on-screen keyboard for entering text on a
web page. </font>
<li><font size="3">Can scroll the mouse wheel now, but only if the
mouse pointer is above the title bar at the top of the page. It
is a problem I am having with the Web object taking control. </font>
<li><font size="3">The Channel Up/Down buttons now do Page Up/Down
in browser instead of normal scrolling. </font>
<li><font size="3">Fixed all keypress issues in the URL drop down
box if using a regular keyboard. </font>
<li><font size="3">Fixed the issue with Refreshing not resizing the
text again. </font></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">1.1.1 (Maintenance release) </font>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">Fixed the problem if you specified a url the popup
menu wouldn't come up </font>
<li><font size="3">Fixed the problem with the Url entry from the toolbar.
You should now be able to use it for entry of new addresses. </font>
<li><font size="3">Fixed the refresh button problem. </font></li>
</ul>
<li><font size="3">1.1 </font>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">Added a new parameter to specify which desktop
to display this browser on. </font>
<li><font size="3">Added a new parameter to specify an internet address
to goto on startup. </font>
<li><font size="3">Made the toolbar bigger and now clicking the title
bar toggles the toolbar on/off. </font>
<li><font size="3">Menu's now use anti-aliased fonts and should look
better for low-res displays </font>
<li><font size="3">Fixed the problem with anchors not working on the
same page. It still has a problem with not going Back from a named
anchor to the top of the page . It seems to want to go to the last
page you were at instead. </font></li>
</ul>
<li><font size="3">1.0 </font></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li><font size="3">Initial Release </font></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p><font size="3">Enjoy, </font></p>
<p><font size="3">Kenny </font></p>
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