kiosk/game mode

[Alex Rice]

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 08:56  PM, Judy Perry wrote:

> Alex,
>
> Are you thinking of something along the lines of the old HC XCMD that
> hides the desktop?
>
> (~Not that I'd know how to do it in Rev, mind you... just trying to 
> follow
> the thread; if this is what you mean and somebody knows how to do it, 
> I'm
> all ears...)

Judy, I don't know- that old HC XCMD was before my time! Turns out RR 
can maybe effectively do everything I was talking about, except:

- change the resolution and color depth of the display, and I don't 
need that anyways.

- prevent switching to other apps or desktop ** ; this would be 
required for a true kiosk mode, but not really required for most games

set the rect of this stack to the screenrect -- or use backdrop property
hide menubar
hide taskbar -- rumored to be new in 2.1

** maybe the new decorations property of "utility" in 2.1 will 
effectively block switching to other apps if the stack is taking the 
entire screenrect...?

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com