Chris Gates wrote:
Hello Folks,
About once a month someone on this forum asks about touch screens and
Moblin, so I figure it's my turn now! {grin}
Does anyone have Moblin (v2 beta) running on ANY Netbook with a
touchscreen?
I want to purchase a Netbook to use as a demo of what an embedded
Moblin system would look like (think: "IVI"), so I need to know which
Netbook to buy.
So I don't really care about the case (as I will be removing/destroying
it) so I can put the guts of the netbook into a different housing to
create this demo version, but I do need the touchscreen to function.
I don't believe that any of the Netbooks on the "official" list of
approved Netbooks have a touchscreen.
(Acer Aspire*One, Asus eeePC* 901, 1000H, Dell Mini 9, MSI Wind, Lenovo
S10, Samsung NC10, HP Mini 1010 and 1120NR)
Any suggestions?
I can't tell you specifics but we have a few development laptops from
various vendors that have touchscreens and the moblin UI seems to do
reasonably well on them. The only real problem is with the drop down
menu at the top. Since there is only one pixel width which is
sensitive, it's basically impossible to make the menu come down with the
default configuration. It's a very simple thing to increase the width
of the sensitive zone at top (which is what we did) but then you run the
risk of interfering with other things like close buttons and such.
I think it's a problem that will have to be solved for touch screens.
Perhaps some sort of gesture recognition? ie. a swipe towards the top
of the screen or a drag from the top of the screen. Not sure which
would be easier/more intuitive.
cheers,
Kris
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