Are you looking for a standalone screen, or are you looking for a small form factor PC attached to a regular touchscreen?
*** I am looking at a thin client setup. Leaning toward HP t5720 with a regular touchscreen, wireless network (unless the plant manager wants to run cable) Most touchscreens today just function as a mouse, and are handled at the os level. They are either bought with the screen, or are add on kits you can handle yourselves. (You no longer need to inject silicon between the glass panes, which was a _pain_. Especially with the 12" needle used to extract air bubbles. And you no longer have to write your own device drivers, which is _lovely_.) *** Haha, those were the good ol' days. The main considerations for a standalone kiosk/touchscreen are diagnostics and remote update and control, and making sure the interface is adapted for touch interface (read large well-spaced buttons). *** I'm new to the network admin side of things, so I'll be figuring out remote management as I go. The big selling point for thin client is manageability...we'll see. We built many kiosks using old-school cbt software, and later Director, but Flash and Firefox (in kiosk mode) handle it wonderfully now right out of the box. *** I had not considered Flash. I'll have to mull over whether I have the time to get up to speed with Flash for this project. What is the environment? Budget? User needs? Is it the only interface, or an additional interface (keyboards, mice, movement or weight sensors)? What about feedback? Screen only, or do you need sound as well? *** The touchscreen will be in a warehouse and food (dry) manufacturing environment. We have climate control, but otherwise it is a less than ideal environment for computers. The interface will consist of the touchscreen, keyboard and a fingerprint scanner or card swiper. The ultimate aim of the system is to get better data for a plethora of business calculations. (cost, employee performance, machine benchmarks, etc) This is the main reason for having a touch screen in proximity to the manufacturing areas. We have used after-the-fact reporting and it's very sketchy at best. I have not explored mounting options yet. The system will have to be close enough to workflow to be convenient, but out of the way enough to not get mauled by a forklift. I want to have an onclick sound and maybe some kind of voice prompt, but I have to figure out how and where to mount speakers. On 10/31/07, Billy Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anybody done this and care to share war stories? I am considering > options for a workflow management system that appears well suited for > a touch screen interface. > > It looks like the OS choices for a thin client with touch screen are > Windows CE or XP embedded. What would make you choose one over the > other. Assume BlueDragon and SQL Server 2005 backend. > > Billy Cox > Old World Spices > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:292437 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
