Hello Jason and Pekr,
Sunday, October 13, 2002, 12:54:35 AM, you wrote:
JC> Petr Krenzelok wrote:
>> OK, I know flash is the option - the problem is that I don't have
>> designer fluent at Flash right now. Anyway, thanks for the tip. OTOH I
JC> I'm available if you are interested..
me too
>>
Petr Krenzelok wrote:
> OK, I know flash is the option - the problem is that I don't have
> designer fluent at Flash right now. Anyway, thanks for the tip. OTOH I
I'm available if you are interested..
> think that flash is overhyped, well - that's just me :-) If I would use
> something for really
Hi Petr,
> I will look for what it offers, but the last thing I want MS to get my
> support is to use their WindowsOS. Call me a former Amiga freak, but I
> kinda like a freedom of choice. Mozilla is the way to go for me, if
> possible. What is more - IE is NOT cross-platform and in the case we go
Hi Petr:
If you don't mind only running your Kiosk on Linux, you can make most of
the browsers (or other applications) full screen/no borders/no gadgets
with controls under rebol program control by customzing a window manager
(like TWM) and using that with the X Window system.
Andy
> -Orig
> Maybe we could try to embed mozilla? That way our
> Rebol apps could
> feature faces, which would be able to display web
> content, including
> plug-ins. Rebol browser anyone? :-) Well, - what is
> more - Mozilla is
> cross-platform and pretty feature rich for what is
> needed. There is no
>
jose wrote:
> Back then, their software allows us to "lock" the
browser (MSIE) and define
starting page etc.
I'm sure they have more to offer now.
Pekr,
There is a pretty good solution for free from M$, if
you can afford to use Windows
We probably can affor Windows. If we will be
Jason Cunliffe wrote:
Hi Petr
I will read your post more carefully.. but my first reaction since I have also
thought about REBOL and kiosks is:
REBOL - invisible back-end network and database engineering
FLASH - visible front-end user interface
With Oldes' %make-swf.r you can use Rebol to dyna
> Back then, their software allows us to "lock" the
> browser (MSIE) and define
> starting page etc.
> I'm sure they have more to offer now.
Pekr,
There is a pretty good solution for free from M$, if
you can afford to use Windows
The steps to get your custom solution n. 2 working
are:
1) G
Hi Petr
I will read your post more carefully.. but my first reaction since I have also
thought about REBOL and kiosks is:
REBOL - invisible back-end network and database engineering
FLASH - visible front-end user interface
With Oldes' %make-swf.r you can use Rebol to dynamically a lot of Flash a
At 09:51 AM 10/12/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>part of our project is gonna be - KIOSK systems. We just looked into some
>at Invex computer show. They are pretty expensive, so we will eventually
>produce few kiosk systems ourselves. However - the questioin is -
>software. We can go severa
Hi Pekr,
Two things come to mind. They aren't answers to your questions, but just
some thoughts based on my experience.
1) For debugging purposes, you want to be ablel to plug in a keyboard and
get to the OS very easily.
2) If you're planning for it all to be touch screen based, everything they
bryan wrote:
C) what we saw during the show was - external configurable
environments,
with embedded browser (mostly IE I think).
Well IE did make an initial push towards developers for the KIOSK
market, tied in with Windows CE I believe, so that would be logical.
A propos XUL, I s
>C) what we saw during the show was - external configurable
environments,
>with embedded browser (mostly IE I think).
Well IE did make an initial push towards developers for the KIOSK
market, tied in with Windows CE I believe, so that would be logical.
A propos XUL, I started with that when it
Just replying to myself but maybe as a reference for others - there seem
to be more to the mozilla than one could think - it seems to become a
platform rather than being simple browser :-)
http://www.mozdev.org/projects.html - what a bunch of projects ...
I don't know why, but e.g. XUL XML UI d
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