ANN: LibKiosk External (was Re: Kiosk Question - Lock User In)

[Mark Schonewille]

Thanks, Andre,

I'm going to test it. This might come in very handy for a few  
educational projects of mine. Oh, and congratulations with your first  
external!

Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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Op 17-sep-2007, om 7:16 heeft Andre Garzia het volgende geschreven:

> My Friends,
> I am here to announce my first external. Called libKiosk, it taps  
> into the
> power of Mac OS X SystemUIMode to enable true apple-standard kiosk
> applications. It will do the following things:
>
> * Prevent application switching using CMD+TAB or CMD+SHIFT+TAB
> * Prevent force quit
> * Prevent power button from bringing up dialog (only in KioskModeFull)
> * Remove both the dock and the apple menu from the interface
>
> The external has three commands
>
> KioskModeOn - enters kiosk mode, user is all locked into kiosk  
> except for
> the fact that the power button still works (that dialog sleep,  
> shutdown,
> logout...)
>
> KioskModeFull - enters full kiosk mode where we remove everything  
> and the
> power button.
>
> KioskModeOff - makes the UI normal again.
>
> This external follows apple technical note on building kiosk  
> applications,
> it is not a hack, it's the real thing! :D
>
> Homepage and download: http://andregarzia.com/libKiosk.html
>
> libKiosk is free and donations are welcome.
>
> Have fun building Kiosks!
>
> PS: this is my first external! :-D
>
> Andre