Kiosk Mode

[jwbuzz]

I've searched through the forums and can't find much on this. I'm demo'ing revolution as a dev environment for quick projects. Specifically, I'm building a kiosk. I need to be able to do the following for kiosk behavior and can't figure out how to do it in revolution.

I'm on Mac OS 10.6

1. Make the window full screen with no application frame around it. I don't want the grey bar with the maximize, minimize, etc.
2. Make it where the user can't access anything else on the system. I need to keep this app always on top.

Any help or pointers to the right documentation would be much appreciated.

[Klaus]

Hi jwbuzz,

do you also have a real name that I can use to address you?

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1. Make the window full screen with no application frame around it. I don't want the grey bar with the maximize, minimize, etc.

This is an easy one

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on propenstack
  ## No titlebar and close tec. buttons!
  set decorations of this stack to empty

  ## Make the stack/card as big as the monitor
  set the rect of this stack to the screenrect
  ...
end preopenstack

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2. Make it where the user can't access anything else on the system...

This is not be possible without an external, sorry.


Best

Klaus

[Klaus]

I memorized that there IS indeed such an external and even free! Check this:
http://www.andregarzia.com/libKiosk.html


Best from germany

Klaus

[jwbuzz]

Klaus.. thank you very much for the reply. My name is Justin.

I will try out your suggestions.

[jwbuzz]

Klaus... where does "on propenstack" go? In the script of my first card?

[Klaus]

Hi Justin,

Klaus... where does "on propenstack" go? In the script of my first card?

Yep (or in the stackscript).

But I always prefer to put it into the script of the first card, since this way substacks do NOT execute this script
if they do not have their own "preopenstack" handler!


Best

Klaus

[jwbuzz]

Klaus.. I tested this external and it works great. How do you include (or bundle) it when building a standalone application?

[trevordevore]

How To Install 3rd Party Externals For Use in the IDE and Standalone Builder