You can do it with Flex and SWFStudio, which is a custom Flash player that can limit what is available for the end user. It specifically has features for kiosk use.
!k _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blake Eaton Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Kiosk support in AIR? You might be able to do this with Linux. Thanks, Blake Eaton http://blakeeaton. <http://blakeeaton.blogspot.com> blogspot.com --- In [email protected], "Ramsey, Robert L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What would happen if you made the Air app the shell for windows? You > don't have to have explorer.exe as the shell. > > Bob > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On > > Behalf Of Jeffry Houser > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:46 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Kiosk support in AIR? > > > > > > As the FAQ says, that Kiosk feature is not a driving force of the > AIR > > runtime. Yes, you can run full screen apps. But, I could not find a > > way to prevent the user from quitting out of it or using alt-tab. I > > have not tried on the 1.0 release, so would love to hear if things > have > > changed. > > > > Beau Scott wrote: > > > > > > So the FAQ on the old labs site for AIR noted that kiosk support was > > > planned, but it gave no mention of which specific kiosk-bits of > > > functionality would be available. Anyone know if this made it in and > if > > > so what/where? > > > > > > > (http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR:Developer_FAQ#Can_I_create_CD- > > ROM_or_kiosk_applications_that_leverage_Adobe_AIR.3F) > > > > > > I'm looking for a few specific settings like locking in full screen, > > > disabling program exit (hotkey) and application switching - but > would be > > > curious also as to what else was put in. I imagine I could intercept > > > some of that and force it to behave similarly, but there would be > some > > > platform-specific logic in there that would defeat the purpose of > using > > > a platform independent vm/framework... > > > > > > > > -- > > Jeffry Houser > > Flex, ColdFusion, AIR > > AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 > > -- > > Adobe Community Expert > > <http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/members/JeffryHouser.html> > > My Company: <http://www.dot-com-it.com> > > My Podcast: <http://www.theflexshow.com> > > My Blog: <http://www.jeffryhouser.com> > > > > > > > > -- > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > >
