Surface is a new feature for Consola 1.1 Beta, which allows the application to output it's status to a window. This is Consola's solution to having a customizable screen to interface Consola to users through a HTML display.

Surface is intended to work with Key pushes, another feature of Consola 1.1 Beta. You can display on screen which content is assigned to your custom made keyboard keys, thus allowing your users to determine, through Surface, what content to push to what devices.

Branding your experience, and allowing users to determine what content to receive from you, while describing the status of the transfer enables for a more personal and satisfatory experience.

 

Setup

Surface comprises of 4 HTML files, one for each status of the application, namely:
A) Stopped.html : Consola is not placecasting.
B) Trigger.html : Consola is waiting for keyboard user input.
C) Select.html : Consola displays all devices in range.
D) Push.html : Consola is placecasting.

You can edit these html files, and place them at your desired folder. Open Consola 'Preferences' window, under the Surface tab, and specify the path to each of these files. When running Consola with Surface enabled, your predefined html files will be displayed, during Consola's operation.