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

[Björnke von Gierke]

Very nice, and worked flawlessly on my 10.3.9 installation. Any chance 
of getting the source code?
Maybe this command is simple enough for me to understand how externals 
bind to rev :)

have fun
Björnke

On 17 Sep 2007, at 07:16, Andre Garzia wrote:

> 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
>
> On 9/17/07, Sivakatirswami <katir at hindu.org> wrote:
>>
>> Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure that blocking the keyboard is going to work.
>>>> Well, try we could put a point and click keyboard on screen,
>>>> but that will raise user resistance to our goal: get their
>>>> name and address...email address and hopefully a donation.
>>>> Would people actually fill in their entire address on a screen
>>>> keyboard? that will be the question.
>>>
>>> In that case, how about a shaped lid over the keyboard that obscured
>>> all the "dangerous" buttons. Just let them access the actual letter &
>>> number keys, space, shift, delete & return. It could be locked on so
>>> that admin people could take it off to access the whole keyboard if
>>> required.
>>
>> That was exactly what we decided to do... but
>>
>> Andre has a surprise for us..
>>
>> Stay tuned.
>>
>> Sivakatirswami
>> www.himalayanacademy.com
>> _______________________________________________
>> use-revolution mailing list
>> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
>> subscription preferences:
>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>>
> _______________________________________________
> use-revolution mailing list
> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your 
> subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>