Re: [beagleboard] push button on 7-inch touch screen to send some strings through the serial port.

2015-07-27 Thread Frank Rizzo
William, thanks for taking the time to answer. I'm using TightVNC to remote to the BBB, so native development is a go. How would flash get ruined? So do you mean having a secondary rootfs? Is it possible to have the rootfs on an sd card and everything else running from eemc as-is? So back to

Re: [beagleboard] push button on 7-inch touch screen to send some strings through the serial port.

2015-07-27 Thread Frank Rizzo
Henry, many thanks for the info and congrats on the new addition to the family! Some of the pages of the book are available online and the example section at the end is exactly the example I was looking for. I went ahead and ordered it off Amazon Prime. Looks like installing QT4 and QT

Re: [beagleboard] push button on 7-inch touch screen to send some strings through the serial port.

2015-07-26 Thread Frank Rizzo
Hi Henry, Did you ever get something going? I just received my BBB with Debian and 4D Systems 7 LCD cape. All I want my app to do is display a few soft buttons that control some gpios. I also want the BBB to boot into my app automatically at startup. I just downloaded QT Creator on my Win7