ANN: Just Another Kiosk External

Sivakatirswami katir at hindu.org
Thu Jan 3 16:03:46 EST 2008


Aloha Ralf:

Have you tested this on Leopard?

Leopard seems to have broken Andre's original external.

I suppose I can just trap for the quit cmd and then invoke
Safari in a revBrowser window so that the mac menu bar doesn't
keep coming up.

Sivakatirswami




Ralf Bitter wrote:
> Thanks to Andre and his invaluable contributions to the
> Rev community I finally started myself in writing externals,
> though I am quite new to C programming.
>
> As a first exercise I extended Andre's libkiosk external and built
> sort of a kiosk control panel, which does exactly what the application,
> demonstrating the SetSystemUIMode API, from Apple does.
> Actually I adopted the interface of the "UsingSystemUIModePrebuilt"
> application including the tooltips.
>
> With this external you can set all available System UI Modes and all
> appendant options. Insert the kioskPanel stack in your own stack
> as a substack. Protect access to the panel with a password
> and your are done.
>
> I would like to share this one, so in case anybody is interested,
> here is the download url:
>
> http://www.softwaregestaltung.de/kiosk/kiosk.zip
>
> Best wishes
> Ralf
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