http://www.maxivista.com/

we use this to allow any of our technicans to mirror thier desktop to the huge lcd projectors on the wall and show a group of students or staff how to do something e.g. mail merges etc.

Its a pain have to walk over to the LCD, manually terminate others connections and start your own, so do the following, download pskill and psexec, psexec for technicans pcs to remote control, pskill on the LCD workstations to kill processes. Create a clear.bat that uses pskill to kill the maxivista viewer on the LCD workstations, also have each maxivista viewer renamed to the hostname of the workstation that maxivista created it on. - Using the below to create a gui app maxivista is now automated :) - Change the name of the lcd to your own, replace password and hostname with your own, for each new lcd just copy, paste and change the relevant lines. Enjoy.

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; AutoIt Version: 3.1.0

; Author: raj <Kingston University>

;

; Script Function:

; AutoIt script.

;

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; Script Start - Add your code below here

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1) ; Change to OnEvent mode

$mainwindow = GUICreate("Fassmon Mirror interface - Raj Sept 2006", 260, 260)

GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "CLOSEClicked")

GUICtrlCreateLabel("Maxivista mirroring software - Raj Sept 2006", 20, 10)

$clearfassmon = GUICtrlCreateButton("Clear Fassmon mirror", 30, 50, 190)

GUICtrlSetOnEvent($clearfassmon, "clearfassmon")

$mirrorfassmon =GUICtrlCreateButton("Mirror Fassmon ", 30, 130, 190)

GUICtrlSetOnEvent($mirrorfassmon, "mirrorfassmon")

$cleanpc =GUICtrlCreateButton("Launch Maxivista ", 30, 210, 190)

GUICtrlSetOnEvent($cleanpc, "cleanpc")

GUISwitch($mainwindow)

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1

Sleep(1000) ; Idle around

WEnd

Func clearfassmon()

;Note: at this point @GUI_CTRLID would equal $okbutton

Run("psexec \\<hostname> -u <hostname>\Administrator -p <password> -i c:\windows\clear.bat", "", @SW_HIDE)

EndFunc

Func mirrorfassmon()

;Note: at this point @GUI_CTRLID would equal $okbutton

Run("psexec \\<hostname> -u <hostname>\Administrator -p <password> -i c:\windows\" & @ComputerName & ".exe")

EndFunc

Func cleanpc()

;Note: at this point @GUI_CTRLID would equal $okbutton

Run("C:\Program Files\MaxiVista Server\MaxiVistaA")

EndFunc

Func CLOSEClicked()

;Note: at this point @GUI_CTRLID would equal $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE,

;@GUI_WINHANDLE will be either $mainwindow or $dummywindow

If @GUI_WINHANDLE = $mainwindow Then

Exit

EndIf

EndFunc

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