Hi,

Am Montag, den 13.12.2004, 12:01 +0000 schrieb Allan Irvine:
> HI
> 
>  Hope this is the right place for this, I am new. I have a spec to
> create a (dual screen) framework application that
> 
>  1 displays mp3, flash, jpegs etc. on top screen
>  2: displays buttons on bottom screen which alter image when a key is
>  pressed.
> 
>  The hardware is a dell pc basically, no mouse and the keyboard is a
>  simple 8 key pad that outputs numbers 1-8 (I think but can be mapped).
> 
> The OS is mandrake 10.1.
> 
>  I am looking for the best way to create this and tools to use etc.

I would say using html and some small browser would be easiest to do
this on (either use a tuned down mozilla - I guess there are some
ready-to-use versions like that, or use opera in kiosk mode, non-mdi).
(since its basically just a gallery right?)

Each (mp3,flash,jpeg,...) is represented by one html file and the
selected html file is shown in one window, and the buttons are shown in
the other window, communication runs through 'frames' (without frameset
it will use the window that has been created with some specific frame
tag - for example through a href target=...) and javascript.

Interesting though: how would 'displaying' mp3 work ? Playing is easy...
waveform visualisation or such isnt quite that easy anymore :)

If you mean to use pygtk, there is a module that embeds a mozilla window
in a gtk widget (pygme for example). [if you compile mozilla with gtk2
support that should be quite trivial]

I dont think you need anything more complex than javascript for what you
want to do though, so that would be more unneeded work to do it in pygtk
(although it would be easier to tie down so that the user cant do
unexpected stuff like wandering off to some other page).

Now if you wanted to play flash from within pygtk in a pygtk widget,
that would be "interesting" :) That's hard to do in my opinion. Lets see
if someone speaks up that has some bindings for that though ;)

> 
>  The system is basically an information kiosk like you see in airports
>  etc. the presentation screen on top may show several borderless frames
>  containing differing media.
> 
>  Hope you can help - any thoughts
> 
> Allan Irvine
> 
> I am willing to pay someone for help with this as it is very urgent for me to 
> get this done

Sounds interesting to take part in. Although I'm quite caught up for the
next three months :) too bad

cheers,
   Danny

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